Successful partnerships between public libraries and local historical societies or museums can provide benefits to both organizations and the community. By sharing resources like space, equipment, programs and expertise, libraries and historical groups can preserve and promote local history more effectively while reducing costs. The examples from Luck, WI and New Glarus, WI showed how collaborations on projects like building a joint facility and digitizing collections strengthened relationships, increased access to materials, and better served community needs. Key elements for successful partnerships include open communication, clearly defined roles, and promoting each other's work.
Presented at the Marathon County Historical Society, Wausau, Wisconsin, May 14, 2012. Part of the Wisconsin Historical Society's spring workshop series.
Exploring Cultural History Online -- Winding Rivers Library System Kickoff EventRecollection Wisconsin
Slides from the Winding Rivers Library system's Exploring Cultural History Online kickoff event, La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 19, 2014. The WRLS ECHO project is an LSTA-funded initiative to digitize photographs and postcards held by member libraries and local historical societies in the region. Presented by Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
UCD Digital Library: Creating online access to historical and contemporary co...UCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, UCD Library Research Services Manager, at Academic & Special Libraries Annual Seminar 1st March 2013, Dublin, Ireland
Clifden Arts Festival Archive@UCD: an OverviewUCD Library
Presentation given by Ursula Byrne, Head of Development and Strategic Programmes, UCD Library, and Dr Lucy Collins, Associate Professor, UCD School of English, Drama & Film, at the 41st Clifden Arts Festival, Clifden, Galway, Ireland on 20 September 2018.
Presented at the Marathon County Historical Society, Wausau, Wisconsin, May 14, 2012. Part of the Wisconsin Historical Society's spring workshop series.
Exploring Cultural History Online -- Winding Rivers Library System Kickoff EventRecollection Wisconsin
Slides from the Winding Rivers Library system's Exploring Cultural History Online kickoff event, La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 19, 2014. The WRLS ECHO project is an LSTA-funded initiative to digitize photographs and postcards held by member libraries and local historical societies in the region. Presented by Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
UCD Digital Library: Creating online access to historical and contemporary co...UCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, UCD Library Research Services Manager, at Academic & Special Libraries Annual Seminar 1st March 2013, Dublin, Ireland
Clifden Arts Festival Archive@UCD: an OverviewUCD Library
Presentation given by Ursula Byrne, Head of Development and Strategic Programmes, UCD Library, and Dr Lucy Collins, Associate Professor, UCD School of English, Drama & Film, at the 41st Clifden Arts Festival, Clifden, Galway, Ireland on 20 September 2018.
Working Internationally for Libraries Conference 2021: Welcoming NewcomersCILIP
"ONE WORLD ONE LIBRARY NETWORK"
Working Internationally for Libraries Conference 2021
June 25, 2021
CILIP Working Internationally for Libraries Conference was a one-day virtual event supported by Arts Council England, in partnership with Libraries Connected, British Library, British Council, Carnegie UK Trust, CILIP International Libraries & Information Group, and CILIP Public & Mobile Libraries Group. The 2021 Conference explored ways of connecting with library services and sector professionals from across the world to inspire and inform local library services. Speakers from a diverse range of regions – UK, Europe, Canada, Africa, and the Middle East - shared best practices, new ideas, and successful examples of international working projects.
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Toronto is a very multicultural city and has a long history of welcoming newcomers to settle in the city. This session explores the ways in which Toronto Public Library helps newcomers integrate into Canadian society with particular focus on the arrival of Syrian refugees in recent years.
Recordings of the sessions are available here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8656926
NCompass Live - February 2, 2022
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
In early 2020, archivists in higher education rushed to modify and create digital projects that would sustain them and their student employees and interns, during an unknown stretch of working from home. As the pandemic settled in and working from home expectations changed, students continued to need work and learning opportunities.
In this panel, the presenters will address planning for remote, in-person, and hybrid projects in outreach, digital initiatives, and processing for student workers. The presenters will discuss the implementation of different student projects and consider lessons learned. The presenters will ideate a more formalized internship design and workflow, looking to increase remote collaboration with students even as they return to full time in-person work. Through this work, the presenters plan to create student projects that are mutually beneficial and leave the students with a sense of purpose, accomplishment, and support they can carry with them to their classes and their future employment.
Presenters: Wendy Guerra, Digital Initiatives Archivist; Claire Du Laney, Outreach Archivist; Lori Schwartz, Hagel Archivist; Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Danish library association and the danish digital libraryMichel Steen-Hansen
In The Danish Library Association we are always happy to have guests from around the world. This week we had a visit from Estonian Librarians Association and the National Library in Ljubljana.
On this occasion I made a short presentation on Danish Library Association and The Danish Digital Library.
To (too?) Public: library Marketing and Public Relations in Public Libraries Today. Presentation by Audrey Sutton, Manager Information and Culture, North Ayrshire Council, Scotland
Dokk1 and the preparation for the design process going into design thinking and co-creation.
A presentation for Japanese visitors from Tokyo starting up a new design and creativity center in Japan.
Working Internationally for Libraries Conference 2021: Welcoming NewcomersCILIP
"ONE WORLD ONE LIBRARY NETWORK"
Working Internationally for Libraries Conference 2021
June 25, 2021
CILIP Working Internationally for Libraries Conference was a one-day virtual event supported by Arts Council England, in partnership with Libraries Connected, British Library, British Council, Carnegie UK Trust, CILIP International Libraries & Information Group, and CILIP Public & Mobile Libraries Group. The 2021 Conference explored ways of connecting with library services and sector professionals from across the world to inspire and inform local library services. Speakers from a diverse range of regions – UK, Europe, Canada, Africa, and the Middle East - shared best practices, new ideas, and successful examples of international working projects.
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Toronto is a very multicultural city and has a long history of welcoming newcomers to settle in the city. This session explores the ways in which Toronto Public Library helps newcomers integrate into Canadian society with particular focus on the arrival of Syrian refugees in recent years.
Recordings of the sessions are available here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8656926
NCompass Live - February 2, 2022
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
In early 2020, archivists in higher education rushed to modify and create digital projects that would sustain them and their student employees and interns, during an unknown stretch of working from home. As the pandemic settled in and working from home expectations changed, students continued to need work and learning opportunities.
In this panel, the presenters will address planning for remote, in-person, and hybrid projects in outreach, digital initiatives, and processing for student workers. The presenters will discuss the implementation of different student projects and consider lessons learned. The presenters will ideate a more formalized internship design and workflow, looking to increase remote collaboration with students even as they return to full time in-person work. Through this work, the presenters plan to create student projects that are mutually beneficial and leave the students with a sense of purpose, accomplishment, and support they can carry with them to their classes and their future employment.
Presenters: Wendy Guerra, Digital Initiatives Archivist; Claire Du Laney, Outreach Archivist; Lori Schwartz, Hagel Archivist; Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Danish library association and the danish digital libraryMichel Steen-Hansen
In The Danish Library Association we are always happy to have guests from around the world. This week we had a visit from Estonian Librarians Association and the National Library in Ljubljana.
On this occasion I made a short presentation on Danish Library Association and The Danish Digital Library.
To (too?) Public: library Marketing and Public Relations in Public Libraries Today. Presentation by Audrey Sutton, Manager Information and Culture, North Ayrshire Council, Scotland
Dokk1 and the preparation for the design process going into design thinking and co-creation.
A presentation for Japanese visitors from Tokyo starting up a new design and creativity center in Japan.
Presented by Sarah Grimm (Wisconsin Historical Society) and Emily Pfotenhauer (WiLS) for the WiLSWorld conference, Madison, Wisconsin, July 24, 2013. Content based on Modules 1 & 2 of the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Baseline Digital Preservation Curriculum developed by the Library of Congress.
Workshop presented at the Wisconsin Conference for Local History and Historic Preservation, Wisconsin Rapids, October 11, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
Andrea Coffin, Community Liaison / Service Specialist, WiLS
July 29th, 2014
Innovation involves risk, and we have all tried new things that didn’t work, some spectacularly. Come to share and listen to how we cope and grow from our failures in this support group for innovators. How do you recognize what didn’t work? How do you know when to improve the project and try again or when to scrap it? Who determines success? How do we stay positive about our work despite the setbacks?
Given by Bruce Smith (WiLS), Inese Christman (Wisconsin Valley Library System), Lori Roholt (Indianhead Federated Library System), and Michael Sheehan (Northern Waters Library System) for Lake Superior Libraries Symposium on June 6th, 2014
NCompass Live - April 20,2016
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Learn about the Lincoln Lancaster County Genealogical Society's unique relationship with Union College Library's Heritage Room. These two special collections have different missions, but have discovered mutual benefits in working together to reach members of the community.
Presenters: Sabrina Riley, Library Director, Union College, Lincoln, NE & Judi Cook, Lincoln Lancaster County Genealogical Society.
Archives Strengthening Historical Narrative: Sharing digital and linked data ...Design for Context
Private collections provide engaging windows into little-known subjects that, when made discoverable, are incredibly relevant to many diverse audiences. The Texas Coastal Bend Collection (TCBC) is a digital-first private collection that offers rich insight into the culture of the Texas Coastal Bend ranching communities, starting with the Irish immigration in 1834. The site’s topic-based framework immerses people in the region’s cultural history. Rich, well-structured metadata (subjects, people, places, historic events, relationships) allows every page to be a gateway for exploring over 200 artistic photographs, 9,000 images, archival documents, books, maps, genealogies, and 1,400 hours of oral history.
We describe the strategies and tools that enable rich exploration of the TCBC’s unique resources, its maintenance by a small dedicated staff, and how meaningful digital connections with other institutions can foster storytelling across an array of subjects. The digital approach that underpins the TCBC, incorporating highly structured categorization, linked data, IIIF, and a unique audio player, provides insights that can be used by other museums and archives.
Small, smaller and smallest: working with small archaeological content provid...locloud
Presentation given by Holly Wright
Archaeology Data Service University of York, UK
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
The DPLA and NY Heritage for Tech Camp 2014Larry Naukam
This is an introduction to the Digital Public Library of America and to New York Heritage. It was put together for showing these web sites to school media librarians and others, an helping them to use it more effectively. It may also be used to find items for use in the Common Core curriculum.
Library, Museum, Archival & Historical Societies: Resources for Emerging Bili...Manhattan College
This presentation discusses ways in which English as a second language teachers can use resources from library, museum, archival & historical societies. Frequently, librarians, museum educators/librarians, archivists, and historical society coordinators & researchers provide outreach to schools and education programs. Explore these ideas! Perhaps, one will be suitable to use in your classroom!
WiLSWorld 2019 Lightning Talks: Community Engagement ShowcaseWiLS
Presented by Jennifer Bernetzke, Schreiner Memorial Library;
Kristen Leffelman, Wisconsin Historical Society; Kristen Maples, UW-Madison iSchool; Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction; Jane Roisum, Fox Valley Technical College; Tasha Saecker, Appleton Public Library; Kristen Whitson, UW-Madison iSchool for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin libraries are “turning outward” in all kinds of creative ways to cultivate positive change in their communities. Hear about a wide range of community engagement projects, including successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
1:1 Community Interview Examples & Tips for LibrariesWiLS
Presented at WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 19th, by Laura Damon-Moore, WiLS; Martín Alvarado, Madison Public Library; Jon Mark Bolthouse, Fond du Lac Public Library
In this session, attendees will hear about three different case studies for using 1:1 interviews as an information gathering method in a library or other municipal setting: 1) to learn how people currently use a city service and how that service might evolve to better suit community needs; 2) to learn about the wider community’s and individuals’ goals and aspirations, and challenges they see or experience in order to inform a library’s planning process; 3) to tell a more complete story of a community’s history through 1:1 interviews. Along with these case studies, session organizers will offer some best practices and practical tips for conducting 1:1 interviews to support these similar yet distinct information gathering efforts.
Presented for WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 17th, by Melissa McLimans, WiLS and Kim Kiesewetter, WiLS
Surveys, focus groups, your annual report data: it’s all telling you a story about your library and your community. Join Melissa and Kim as they share ways in which libraries can use data to tell the story of both their communities and institutions. It will include an overview of different types of data that a library might use ranging from existing resources to inspiration for new research. To tie everything together, the session will conclude with ways to present selected data in a compelling, narrative format to tell a larger story to a variety of audiences.
he Past Through Tomorrow: Empowering Digital History at the LibraryWiLS
Presented at WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 18th, by Steven Rice, Door County Historical Museum, Museum and Archives Manager; Beth Renstrom, Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation, Inc.; Kristen Whitson, WiLS/Recollection Wisconsin
Recollection Wisconsin resources can prepare your library to respond to the digital heritage needs of your community. Join us to hear about Recollection Wisconsin’s Digital Readiness Community of Practice and how digital readiness applies to your organization. Then learn about how Door County Speaks, a real-life example of digital readiness concepts, responded to the community’s needs to provide oral history kits for collecting community memories and how the oral history kits have been used in the Door County Granary project. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to implement digital projects resources in their own organizations.
Can Do! The WiLS Toolbox for Building a Culture of Shared WorkWiLS
At the 2021 WLA Support Staff and Circulation Services (SSCS) conference, held on May 27th, our WiLS Administrative Team presented, Can do!: The WiLS Toolbox for Building a Culture of Shared Work. Lisa Marten, Rebecca Rosenstiel, and Melody Clark shared their favorite tools and strategies for streamlining work in a way that honors individual accountability and contributions, ensures everyone supports one another, aims to continuously improve, and builds a strong culture of teamwork. These practices have helped everyone stay engaged and know what’s expected of them and their fellow team members - and most importantly, it creates an atmosphere of fun and cooperation in our remote office. Our entire WiLS staff and our members reap the benefits of this high-functioning team! Check out their presentation slides and feel free to contact us at information@wils.org if you have any questions.
Setting Your Library's Course with Community DemographicsWiLS
Demographic data provides valuable insights about a community’s past, current, and future needs and can help libraries make critical decisions related to resource allocation, service provision, and even library staffing. This presentation covers what demographics are, how you can find them about your community, and how you can use the information to make data informed decisions for your library.
Presented by Kim Kiesewetter and Melissa McLimans for the Wisconsin Library Association's 1-Day Virtual Conference on November 11, 2020.
Lead the Way 2020: Facilitation Tools, Techniques, and Tips WiLS
Placing the community at the center of how the library plans and operates is vital, whether it is engaging residents to learn about aspirations or developing a collaboration with community partners. To be most successful when engaging community members or partners, quality facilitation is required. In this program, we share facilitator techniques and tools, including best practices for running effective meetings and holding conversations, that you can use to constructively manage both the process and people in different facilitation situations. In addition, we share our on-the-ground facilitator tips developed from our organization’s experience providing facilitation for different needs and environments.
Presented by Andi Coffin and Melissa McLimans for UW-Madison's Lead the Way conference on November 17, 2020
February 28, 2020. The WiLS 2020 Annual Membership Meeting shared with our members what we’ve been up to, including:
1) results of WiLS Ideas to Action Fund projects, including how those projects benefit other WiLS members
2) an update on the new WiLS business model, which has been developed to better align with our values and how we want to benefit the community
Presented by Maria Dahman, User Experience Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 24th in Madison, Wisconsin.
You’ve gathered website analytics, run surveys, and observed how people use your website and other digital resources– now what? Impressive user research doesn’t matter much if the research isn’t used. More than just communicating what we learned in our research, communicating what we recommend for website or application improvements and framing the recommendations to our audiences in meaningful ways is a skill of its own. In this workshop, we’ll look at findings from several types of research projects and work through positive and negative examples of how the findings are used to create recommendations. This is useful for both qualitative user experience research (interviews, usability testing) and quantitative research (page analytics, usability scales). Be a better advocate for your users. Make the hard work from your interviews and other user research count!
Presented by Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collection & Recollection Wisconsin for DPLAFest 2019 on Wednesday, April 17 in Chicago, IL.
Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), a two-year, IMLS grant-funded program managed by WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin, a DPLA Service Hub for Wisconsin cultural heritage organizations. Launched in December 2017, CCDC aims to 1) provide digital stewardship practicum experience for information school graduate students; 2) to help small or under-resourced institutions in Wisconsin develop and sustain a digital preservation program; and 3) to build community around digital preservation work within Wisconsin and beyond.
Building Belonging: Libraries and Social JusticeWiLS
Presented by Sarah Lawton, Neighborhood Library Supervisor, Madison Public Library for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
Libraries exist at the intersection of institution and community, an opportune space for building compassion and supporting collective action. Sarah will explore the ways that libraries around the country are working with their communities to challenge systemic racism, break down barriers, and confront oppression.
Presented by Rebecca Stavick, Executive Director of Do Space, Co-Founder of Open Nebraska for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin
Disrupting the status quo is difficult and uncomfortable work. In the Midwest, as well as in the library profession, we often value being polite over challenging the established way of doing things — even if those things are holding us back. In this talk, Stavick will discuss how the future of libraries depends on our ability to turn uncomfortable conversations into positive action. Attendees will learn how to think like a hacker in order to overcome barriers in their work, and how to leverage the philosophy of #goodtrouble to empower our communities.
Choosing Privacy: Raising Awareness and Engaging Patrons in Privacy IssuesWiLS
Presented by Rob Nunez, Division Head for Support Services, Kenosha Public Library for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23 in Madison, Wisconsin
Personal privacy is no longer a guarantee in today’s society, but libraries are still seen as a safe haven for the public. While libraries change to keep up with technical needs, there are times we are swept up with whether or not we can, we never stop to ask if we should. With some libraries sharing full patron records with school administrations and others being tempted to bring in facial recognition into their spaces, it’s still a professional duty to respect and promote privacy. In this talk we will cover the ALA Privacy Subcommittee’s work, and what libraries can do to get involved.
The Library as Publisher: How Pressbooks Supports Knowledge SharingWiLS
Presented by Steel Wagstaff, Educational Client Manager, Pressbooks for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
Pressbooks is an open-source book publishing platform that makes it easy for authors to publish books on the web and produce clean, well-formatted exports in multiple formats, including ebooks, print-ready PDFs, and various XML flavors. In this presentation, Pressbooks’ educational client manager Steel Wagstaff will outline the values and principles that have motivated the development of this platform and share some of the ways that libraries (both academic and public) and other educational institutions are using Pressbooks to publish a wide variety of content, from openly licensed textbooks to self-authored novels and just about everything in between.
Engaged and Thriving: Building Peer Support Systems for StaffWiLS
Delivered by Kim Boldt, Branch Manager, Milwaukee Public Library; Melody Clark, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Andi Coffin, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Nathan Dowd, Library Director, Edgewood College for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
According to a Gallup study, employees who are “engaged and thriving” are 59 percent less likely to look for a job with a different organization in the next 12 months. How do people stay “engaged and thriving?” One key component is feeling supported. The structure in organizations to support employees is more than just chance, and thoughtfully developing a structure for peers to support one another can be a valuable component in developing employee well-being.. In this program, presenters will share deliberately developed approaches to peer support in their institution.
Productivity Tools You Won't Believe You Lived Without!WiLS
Presented by Melody Clark, WiLS and Sara Gold, WiLS for Peer Council 2019 on June 3rd at Madison Public Library in Madison, WI
If you are like us, you are always on the lookout for technology that will help improve your productivity, make better use of your time, eliminate duplicate efforts, and simplify processes. As a virtual organization, WiLS relies heavily on tools to help manage tasks and groups, improve communication, and streamline workflows. This session will share information about tools WiLS uses in everyday life for project management (like Basecamp and something we call "Megasheets"), communication (like Slack and Front), and data management (like Airtable). Feel free to bring your own favorite tools that help you in your work to share with attendees!
Presented by Denis Brunke, UW-Madison Memorial Library and Shawn King, UW-Madison Law Library for Peer Council 2019 on June 3rd at Madison Public Library in Madison, WI.
In 2015, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) approved UW-Madison's proposal for a NACO funnel project in the state of Wisconsin. The funnel project allows libraries around Wisconsin to join together to contribute authority records to the LC/NACO Authority File. The presenters will describe the Wisconsin NACO Funnel project, how it works, and how you can participate.
2. Plan for today
• Chuck Adleman and Jill Glover will share about
their space collaboration in Luck
• Denise Anton Wright and Janis Merkle will share
about a digital collaborative project in New Glarus
• Stef Morrill will share survey results throughout! [73
responses, solicited from Wisconsin Historical
Societies]
11. Luck Grows and Changes
• Indian cession treaties open land for 1837
settlement
• Logging era rest stop 1850s
• Danish immigration brings dairy farming 1870s-1880s
• Soo Line R.R. reaches Luck in 1902
• Duncan Yo-Yo “capital” from 1946-1965
• Family dairy farms give way to large farms
• Recreation industry gathers importance
• Wood products industry a main stay
• Luck becomes tied to Twin Cities metropolitan area
15. Planning Begins in 2000
• First interest in new library and museum building
• Luck Historical Society formed
• Site on Main Street chosen and purchased
• Dormant period, brown site pollution mitigated
• Steering committee of interested citizens formed 2006
1. Chairman chosen
2. Firm consensus that a new Public Library critical
3. General agreement that library and museum should
be housed together in single building
4. Committees assigned
5. Fund raiser chosen
6. Committees assigned
7. Fund raising begins
16. Fund Raising Continues,
Building Designed and Constructed,
2006-2008
• Cedar Corporation chosen for design, engineering
and oversight
• Final design of building approved in 2007
• Construction summer of 2007 to fall 2008
• Mortgage (bridge loan from village) burned in fall of
2010
18. The Finished Building
Design
• Library space (main floor, meeting room, break
room and office) - 47%
• Museum (and work/storage) - 35%
• Public areas (lavatories, lobby) – 17%
• Mechanical – 1%
24. Other Things to Consider
• The lot and building are owned by the
village of Luck but were built with private
donations
• The public library is operated with
local, county and state tax dollars
• The Museum is self supporting through
grants, donations and museum sales
• Building decisions are made by a
committee of the Luck Public Works Director
and representatives of the Library and
Historical Society Boards
25. Benefits of living together
• Synergy of sharing space and ideas
• Better drawing power for both
• Cost savings by sharing space and equipment
• Able to plan and offer better and more varied
programs and activities
• Large group programs possible with flexible space
in the museum
26. Successful Things We have Done
Together
• Partner to show classic free movies
• Cooperatively sponsored Civil War speakers
• Offer shared seasonal events eg. Lucky Days, Winter
Carnival, visit from Santa, etc.
• Shared space for adult exercise classes
• Provide space for census training
• Make space available for community meetings
(non political)
• Provide location for Luck Senior Class Art Show
• Give programs for school and community field trips
29. Polk County Genealogical Society Partners
with Library/Museum
• Library has ancestry.com and
other genealogical resources
online free
• Monday afternoons museum is
staffed by Genealogists
• Many programs are co-
sponsored by museum and
genealogy group
Danish immigrant history talk
31. Large Group Meetings in the Museum
Sound system, Video projector
Monthly Program
32. Key Elements of Success
• Strong rapport established during building project
• Friendly, cooperative staffs
• Broad community support
• Gathering point for the community
• Central Main Street location
• Open six days a week with predictable schedule
• Facilities available for community activities
• Provides only public rest rooms on Main Street
• Free WI-FI hotspot
• Ability to accept the fact that things won’t always
go exactly the way you might like
33. Possible Pitfalls When Living
Together
• Don’t expect the library staff to watch the
museum
• Importance of keeping library and museum
budgets completely separate
• Difficulty of determining a fair and equitable
division building operating costs
• Carefully planned billing procedure
• Coordination of schedules
• Mechanism for making joint building
decisions
• What if one partner defaults?
34. Future
• August 30, 2012 $90,670 grant for Family
Heritage, multipurpose shared addition
• Storage
• Questions?
• Websites:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wilahs
/index.html
• http://luckpubliclibrary.org/
36. How else are we
working together?
• Share programs/events (21 out of 44)
• Work together to get questions answered about
people/community (4)
• Cross-promotion (4)
• Share data and research (4)
• Share equipment (3)
37. How else are we
working together?
• Dividing collection responsibilities: collecting
different formats
• Rotating collection lent to Historical Society
• Get discarded books from library
• Traveling display created by historical society lent to
libraries
• Planning
• Page in the quarterly library newsletter
• Board member overlapping
• Collaborate on book of photos
39. What kinds of content?
• Photos (6 out of 17)
• Documents/Books (6)
• Obituary database
• Local newspaper
• Ancestry.com
• Facebook page
• Library catalog: Historical society collection in the
catalog
• Library maintained website (2)
40. Successful Partnerships
with Public Libraries
New Glarus
Denise Anton Wright
Public Library Administration Consultant
South Central Library System, Madison
dawright@scls.lib.wi.su
Janis Merkle
Assistant Director, New Glarus Public Library
jmerkle@scls.lib.wi.us
41. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Village of 2,172 people – located in Green County
Rich history – founded in 1845
as a colony of Switzerland
Re-invented itself as a tourist
destination in early 1960’s
Home to New Glarus Brewing Co.
& Swiss Center of North America
42. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
New Glarus Public Library New Glarus Historical Society
•Founded in 1934 •Founded in 1938
•Staff with interest / abilities •Historical Society maintains
relating to local history Swiss Historical Village
•Staff with experience in •Active Board of Directors
digitization & Membership
•Connections already in •No paid coordinator
place with Historical
Society
49. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
New Glarus Public Library New Glarus Historical Society
•Values local history •Values local history
•Limited space (2,074 SF) •Adequate space for
•Very little space for local collections
history collection •Limited public access to
•No room to accept archives
donations of local history •Archival materials not as
materials organized as Board would like
•Open year-round – 50 hours •Open part-year (May 1st to
per week October 15th)
•Staff willing to coordinate a •Board willing to help with
digitization project digitization project
50. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Local History Digitization Project
•FY2011 – Federal LSTA (Library Services & Technology Act)
grant administered by the IMLS (Institute of Museum &
Library Services) & the Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction
•Janis Merkle – wrote the grant application & coordinated
all aspects of the grant project – also wrote the metadata
to accompany each item
•Involved New Glarus Historical Society, New Glarus Public
Library & the New Glarus Swiss United Church of Christ
•Emphasized the strengths of the collections owned by the
NGHS & Swiss Church (photos & unique book items)
•Focused on early New Glarus history as much as possible
51. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Local History Digitization Project
•Grant requirement - UWDCC did actual digitization
•Janis & project partners made decisions on what items
would be digitized
•Historical Society members assisted with identification of
individuals / locations / details of the photos that did not
have information
•Goal to have as much information as possible connected
to each item / each image
•Items needed to be physically transported to UWDCC
•Digitized items / images housed on UWDCC server
52. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Local History Digitization Project – Three Objectives:
#1 – Preserve local history information
Final Report: The selected materials – many of which are
fragile – can now be consulted without handling the physical
materials. Digital reproductions of the materials – both online
and contained on physical media – provide a backup
against the loss or destruction of the originals.
53. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Local History Digitization Project – Three Objectives:
#2 – Provide the general public with free access to local
history materials through the Internet
Final Report: These materials were previously accessible only
in person at the owning institutions during limited hours. Our
digital collection is now hosted and maintained by UWDCC
on their website, which is accessible 24 hours a day at no
charge to anyone with Internet access. The collection can be
found easily through a Google search, and it will soon be
included in the Wisconsin Heritage Online portal.
54. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Local History Digitization Project – Three Objectives:
#3 – Publicize & promote the newly-digitized materials
Final Report: As described above, the availability of the new
collection has been announced to the public through various
avenues including newspapers, e-mail lists, social
media, websites, and an open house. Handouts describing
the collection and how to use it are also on display in the
library.
55. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Local History Digitization Project housed on the UWDCC
website – State of Wisconsin Collection
“New Glarus and Green County Local History”
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/WI/NewGlarusLocHist
New Glarus Public Library (www.newglaruspubliclibrary.org)
New Glarus Historical Society (www.swisshistoricalvillage.org)
Swiss United Church of Christ (www.swisschurch.org)
56. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Categories:
•People
•Buildings, Streets & Scenes
•Leisure & Celebration
•Schools, Churches &
Community
•Business & Commerce
•Farming
•Books (including “The
Establishment &
Development of the New
Glarus Colony” – in its
original German, as well as in
a English version that was
recently translated by a
local New Glarus resident)
57. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Benefits to the Digitization Grant Project:
•Extremely positive reaction from the community
•Links to the UWDCC site from the website of each
partnering organization = widespread access
•Projects a positive, progressive image for all three
partnering organizations (library, historical society &
church)
•Solidified positive relationships among all three
partnering organizations
58. Successful Partnerships
New Glarus
Lasting Impact for the Library & Historical Society:
•More projects to benefit both (local newspaper
microfilm project & future digitization projects)
•Future partnerships (location of new library)
•Historical Society = improved organization of photo
collection & up-to-date policies on access / use
59. Parting words…
”Having a good working
Community.working
“The Museum and Library relationship with the public library
haverelationship and
a good working in your community is a "win-win"
relationship and
complement one another situation for both the historical
complement one another society and the library. We
for the good of theof the
for the good …
promote and advertise each
Drummond Community.
Community.” other's events to our patrons,
members, and the community.”
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Community.working
“it is a great idea, as we
“A Great Opportunity to both preserve local history
educate the public together” in different ways” good
Community. of the Drummond
Community.
“They're very useful and usually lots of fun. Great way to expand visibility
and membership.”
60. Thanks!
• Questions?
o Chuck Adleman, lahsmuseum@gmail.com
o Denise Anton Wright, dawright@scls.lib.wi.us
o Stef Morrill, smorrill@wils.wisc.edu