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I'm excited to share this amazing new resources from my colleagues in Wisconsin:</div>
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<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">The
long-awaited</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frecollectionwisconsin.org%2Fdigital-readiness-toolkit&data=05%7C01%7Cgallob%40michigan.gov%7Cce5483cfd4ab41934e5808da603f0451%7Cd5fb7087377742ad966a892ef47225d1%7C0%7C0%7C637928121818093797%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YWkPnij0SYxq6T2wxfbSjBqCzA8Uk7Pt7zBXLVRVU1g%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="Verified" shash="JzUvvzxUqp2VuonyQHZySX/+XDKiXGpVnAvCVFQkQbhGBO7I3LfUsOO1QrknfA02u9RIDOeI35uLypWUasnRIARPK+fhcpM5LdUzGSLMXKGeTZkFIktrcrEh+Hr6i4oduyJUf1Pcra9jH07HAOaPwWLUk9/gK2NVXmW/aJmffgw=" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Digital
Readiness Toolkit</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> ha</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">s launched
and available for use! </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This revised and expanded set of tools, guidelines, examples, templates, and other resources is a complete guide
to creating and tending a digital collection. The Toolkit was developed specifically to meet the needs of small cultural heritage organizations and is freely available for anyone to use. Every stage of the Toolkit's development, from planning to design to
review to testing, was driven by community input. </span>
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<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">This work was supported in part by grants to WiLS, in partnership with Recollection Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Historical Society, from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). </span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please feel free to use and share widely.</span></div>
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<p style="margin:0in; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=""><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Statewide Digitization Initiatives Coordinator </span></span></p>
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|</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> 517-335-1402</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=""><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><i><b>Discover digital collections from cultural institutions throughout the state at </b></i></span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><i><b><a href="https://michmemories.org/" title="https://michmemories.org/"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Michigan
Memories</span></a></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><i><b>!</b></i></span></span></p>
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