Wednesday morning at WAAL

Well, it's a beautiful day in sunny Stevens Point and the conference is off to a terrific start. I had the privilege this morning of introducing Nancy Mulhern's program, "New Bottle for an Old Wine: The Digital Collection of Wisconsin Public Documents 1852-1914." Nancy gave us a good overview of this amazing collection (http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIPublicDocs) of documents -- 62 years, 118 volumes, 30 linear feet -- of state agency reports from the beginning of Wisconsin state history.

Searching can sometimes be tricky because this is such a large pile of uncorrected OCR text -- and is not indexed -- but we have good boolean and proximity search options. Indexing would be a terrific addition (Michael Edmonds, are you listening?) but it's a great resource that deserves wide use. Add it to your library's electronic resources page today!

And, of course, this collection is just part of the UWDC's State of Wisconsin Collection (http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI) which should be added to your resources lists too.