Historical Society, Wisconsin

• Inventory Completions: Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI

• FR, June 28, 2010
• Notices
• National Park Service

• Neighbors Resist State Project in Madison

A Madison alderwoman opposes state plans to construct a 96,000- square-foot storage and preservation building in a north-side residential neighborhood. Anita Weier, a freshman on the Madison Common Council, delayed city approval of the Department of Administration's proposal by kicking it back to the Plan Commission. The $25 million project would house artifacts owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Veterans Museum.

• Daily Reporter (Milwaukee)
• June 20, 2011

• Inventory Completion: Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI

• FR, May 04, 2010
• Notices
• National Park Service

• Historic Sites' Visitors Fewer, Revenue Higher; the Wisconsin Historical Society Says Attendance Drops by 3,000

MILWAUKEE (AP) - The number of people who visited the nine state- operated historic sites was slightly down this year over last year, but this year's visitors spent more money, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. Total attendance through Aug. 27 was down about 3,000 people for this season, or 2.6 percent, according to Historical Society figures. But total revenue is up 7.9 percent from ticket sales, museum store sales, facilities rentals and some restaurant operations.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• September 04, 2006

• Inventory Completions: Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI

• FR, May 13, 2010
• Notices
• National Park Service

• History, Anew <> Historical Society's Textbook Repackages Wisconsin's Past for Fourth-Grade Classes

Bobbie Malone hates textbooks. As an elementary school teacher in New Orleans and Texas, she watched her students stumble over the same dull passages year after year, losing the main idea from one page to the next. She hated the books' unwieldy size and the authors who seemed to talk down to her students, or who failed to acknowledge other viewpoints.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• August 12, 2008

• An Alternative Vision of Librarianship: James Danky and the Sociocultural Politics of Collection Development

The work of James P. Danky, longtime librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society, is situated within the intellectual context of collection-development practices. Danky's belief in the value of alternative periodicals-and the lengths that he went to identify and acquire them-may be interpreted as a rejection of increasingly mechanical and generic ways to develop library collections. Reliance on centralized selection procedures, approval plans, and serials vendors was not only tantamount to the "disintegration of librarians as sources of expertise," but also structurally privileged books and serials from mainstream publishers. The biennial Alternative Library Literature (1982-2001), which Danky coedited with Sanford Berman, is compared with the annual Library Lit.-The Best of (1970-199...

• Library Trends
• Vol. 56 Nbr. 3, January 2008

• Native American human remains, funerary objects; inventory, repatriation, etc.: Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison WI,

• FR, February 07, 2007
• Notices
• National Park Service

• Wisconsin Historical Society Finds Director to Fill Vacancy

By PATRICK MARLEY pmarley@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• June 11, 2004

• Historical Society Receives Grant Awards

The Lancaster-based Grant County Historical Society recently received two grant awards. One comes from the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Council for Local History. The grant will be used to support a digitization project for more than 2,000 photographs at the Cunningham Museum in Lancaster. It includes many Civil War photos of soldiers from Grant County.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• August 16, 2011