Montly Brown Bag

Bring your lunch and your brain!

Join your fellow archivists and librarians for a monthly, informal discussion of selected articles related to our profession. December’s Brown Bag discussion will be held on Wednesday December 9th at noon in the SLIS Commons (located on the fourth floor of Helen C. White building on the UW-Campus).

Jacqie Ferry,

Cataloging Archivist and EAD Coordinator at the

Wisconsin Historical Society

Will lead the discussion on the OCLC report:

The Metadata is the Interface:

Better Description for Better Discovery of Archives and Special Collections,

Synthesized from User Studies

Jennifer Schaffner, for OCLC Research

This report synthesizes evidence from archival user studies and specifies what descriptive information is needed for research. A copy of this report can be accessed online at

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-06.pdf

If you have any questions or have problems accessing the URL, feel free to contact either Abbie Norderhaug at abbie.norderhaug@wisconsinhistory.org or Jennifer Graham at jennifera.graham@wisconsinhistory.org.

Dane County Historical Society scrapbooks featured in Archives Month blog

Madison Metropolitan School District Scrapbooks-Dane County Historical Society featured in Archives Month blog. Located in the Lussier Family Heritage Center, the Otto Schroeder Records Center is home to the Dane County Historical Society library and archives collection. It includes historical documentation of the people, places, businesses, and organizations with ties to Dane County, including: books, periodicals, maps, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, organizational records and other publications.


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The History Museum at the Castle featured in Archives Month blog

The Appleton Papermakers Scrapbooks-History Museum at the Castle featured in the Archives Month blog. These wooden-bound scrapbooks commemorate the first two seasons of Minor League Baseball in Appleton. Compiled in 1940 and 1941 by George Oudenhoven, the Papermakers’ vice-president, they contain photos of players both in uniform and at leisure.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum featured in Archives Month blog

Today Wednesday, October 28, the Sterling W. Schallert WWII Propaganda Scrapbook-Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center is being featured in the Archives Month blog. Sterling Schallert, a Watertown, Wisconsin native, served as a supply officer on LST 465 during World War II, seeing action at New Britain, the Admiralty Islands, and Leyte. LSTs (Landing Ships- Tank) transported large vehicles, as well as troops, from island to island, including some Australian soldiers. It was probably from them that he acquired the colorful and fascinating propaganda that he put in today’s featured scrapbook.

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Nancy Truog scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Tuesday, October 27, the Nancy Truog Scrapbook is being featured in the Archives Month blog. Another of the many scrapbooks in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s expansive holdings, Nancy Troug’s scrapbook, kept from 1927 to 1939, is an intimate portrait of family life in Madison in the early 1900s. Presumably started as a baby book, it is also a journal detailing birthdays, holidays, and family vacations which Nancy was a part of. It contains many greeting cards, postcards, clippings, souvenirs, report cards, and other memorabilia, along with notes of people and places visited by the family.

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Badger History Group featured in Archives Month blog

Today Monday, October 26, the Badger History Group, Inc. scrapbooks are being featured in the Archives Month blog. The Badger History Group was organized in 1998 as a committee of the Sauk County Historical Society. In November 2007 it was incorporated as an affiliate of the Wisconsin Historical Society. To meets its mission “to collect, preserve and share the history of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant area,” the Badger History Group collects artifacts, archival materials and anything else that can be used to tell the story of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant Area.

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Albany Historical Society featured in Archives Month blog

Today Friday, October 23, the Albany Historical Society Museum home to the Wilbur Dehmer Collection and his personal scrapbook are being featured in the Archives Month blog. Dehmer, a local druggist (or pharmaceutist, in modern parlance), collector, outdoorsman, and musician, he ran Albany’s locally owned Dehmer Rexall Drugs from 1940 to 1973, and along with Wilbur’s personal scrapbook, the museum is also home to the soda fountain and decorations that were once used in Wilbur’s drug store.

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