The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium, in partnership with Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA), and Recollection Wisconsin, is undertaking a pilot project to provide access to digitized historical newspapers.
The goals of the pilot are:
In addition to the recommendations that triggered changes to the buying pool, other interesting pieces of data were revealed about our patrons from the WPLC Digital Collections Patron Survey:
A generous user of Wisconsin's Digital Library, and her employer, have a made a $2000 gift to the library!
Karen Menke, an employee of the MacArthur Foundation, has donated $500 to the library for purchase of materials for the statewide collection and the MacArthur Foundation has matched her gift 3:1. Thank you, Karen, for this very generous gift!
