Plan and Prioritize

• Preservation and Selection for Digitization, Northeast Document Conservation Center

Obtain Permissions

• Welcome to the Public Domain. Stanford Libraries.
• Orphan Works. Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University Law School
• What is Fair Use? Copyright Alliance.
• Responsible Access Workflows, University of California Berkeley Libraries
• “RightsStatements.org: Why We Need It, What It Is (and Isn’t) and What Does It Mean for the DPLA Network and Beyond?”  [webinar recordings] Digital Public Library of America, 2016.

Digitize

• Ashenfelder, Mike. “Personal Digital Archiving: The Basics of Scanning.” The Signal, Library of Congress, 2014.
• “Reformatting — Outsourcing and Vendor Relations.” Northeast Document Conservation Center.
• “Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials.” Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI), 2016.

• “Promoting Use of Your Digital Content.” Digital Public Library of America, 2015.

Describe

• Baca, Murtha, ed. Introduction to Metadata. 3rd ed. Getty Publications, 2016.
• Best Practices for CONTENTdm and other OAI-PMH compliant repositories: Creating shareable metadata. OCLC, 2020.
• Best practices for file naming, Data Management Services, Stanford University Libraries.

https://library.stanford.edu/spc/university-archives/managing-university-records/file-naming-guidelines

• CDP Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices Version 2.1. Collaborative Digitization Program, 2006.

Share

• Shreeves, Sarah L., Jenn Riley, and Kat Hagedorn (eds). Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata. Washington, D.C.: Digital Library Federation, 2007.
• Woody, Rachael Christine. “How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS.” Lucidea.

Store and Maintain

• “Storage and Maintenance.” Wisconsin Historical Society, 2018.
• Digital Preservation Plan worksheet, Sustainable Heritage Network
• “Digital Preservation Peer Assessment.” Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2019.
• Getting Beyond Digital Hyperbole & Tools for Looking Forward. Trevor Owens, 2017.
• Digital Preservation Handbook, 2nd Edition, Digital Preservation Coalition, 2015.
• Levels of Digital Preservation. National Digital Stewardship Alliance, 2019.
• “Good Migrations: A Checklist for Migrating Your Digital Preservation Infrastructure.” National Digital Stewardship Alliance, 2021.
• “The Environmental Impact of Digital Preservation.” Digital Bedrock, 2023.
• “MemLabNet Webinar: Digital Storage Crash Course.” DC Public Library Memory Lab Network, 2018. (All of the DC Public Library Memory Lab Network videos are available and easily understood.)
• Know Your Digital Storage Media. University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections, 2013-2014.

Evaluate

• Community Catalyst: How do we know we are having an impact? Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2017.
• “Evaluation And Community Engagement: Everyone Is An Evaluator.” Building the Field of Community Engagement, 2015.
• Community Tool Box: Evaluating the Initiative. Center for Community Health and Development–University of Kansas, 2022.

COMMUNITY MEMORY RESOURCES AND TOOLS

In Fall 2019, WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) began a cooperative agreement with the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to mentor a group of ten libraries around the country that received Accelerating Promising Practices (APP) grants from IMLS. This funding opportunity was designed to help small, rural, and tribal libraries build capacity in several areas including community memory. A second cohort of seven libraries kicked off their APP grants in Fall 2020.

Over a three-year period, WiLS facilitated virtual and in-person learning opportunities for project leaders at these seventeen libraries as they took on oral history initiatives and other projects to document and share the unique stories of their communities. Here you’ll find links to many of the slide decks, handouts, worksheets, and other materials created by WiLS and by an array of guest experts to support the cohort as they launched, promoted, and evaluated their community memory projects. These materials were created in response to cohort needs and are shared here with the intention of helping other organizations doing similar work.

Wisconsin Case Studies

• Madison Trust for Historic Preservation
• Lake Mills Aztalan Historical Society
• Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center
• Door County Library / Door County Historical Museum and Archives
• Chippewa Valley Museum
• Sharing Local History Resources: Multiple Organizations
• Stoughton Public Library
• Sauk City Public Library
• Langlade County Historical Society
• History Museum at the Castle: Audiovisual Collections 
• Milwaukee Public Museum: Audiovisual Collections
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: Audiovisual Collections