It’s spring, and that means spring-cleaning time. If you’re thinking about refresing the look and feel of your VITA Digital Toolkit site, we can help!

Our helpsite has tons of useful resources we’ve written about how to navigate and customize the front-end of VITA. We’ve also added some example resources from other VITA members who have graciously shared templates, posters, event plans, and other documents you can learn from. Continue reading Spring-clean your VITA site with these design resources

We’re at Ryerson University to learn about how cultural heritage workers can leverage and improve Wikimedia services.

Stay tuned on Twitter with the hashtag #glamwikiTO!

You can find us at several industry events this week. Tomorrow, Allana will be at the OLS-North First Nation Public Libraries Spring Gathering in Sudbury, sharing information about digitization and upcoming funding opportunities.

Later this week, Loren and Jess will be at the Archives Association of Ontario’s 2019 Annual Conference, where ODW will have an exhibitor booth and Loren will be presenting a session on working with newspapers publishers to ensure preservation and access of Ontario’s local news. Continue reading This week: ODW at the OLS-N First Nation Spring Gathering and the AAO Annual Conference

Tonight at 7pm Walter Lewis will be presenting to the Uxbridge Genealogy Group at the Uxbridge Public Library.

Walter’s interests lie in both the intricacies of digitizing old print & microforms, and in navigating historical newspapers’ own idiosyncrasies. The presentation will cover the accuracy and biases of local journalists, the many interesting ways to find birth, marriage, and death information, things all researchers should know about microfilm and OCR, tips & tricks to navigate conflicting stories, and the ways local coverage changed over time (and slowly got replaced with syndicated stories).

If you’re in the area, stop by the Uxbridge Public Library and enjoy the talk!

 

The Canada Post Community Foundation has funding available for nonprofit and community organizations to support children and youth. Many libraries, schools, and cultural groups can benefit from this funding – grants can be up to $25,000, but lower amounts have varying application requirements. There are also up to 3 grants available for up to $50,000. Continue reading Upcoming funding opportunities for heritage