Category: Digital Preservation

  • Photographing a loose-leaf binder under the BC100 book scanning station

    The Digital & Online Services department is excited to announce the latest addition to our imaging team! Jade Alderman, our new Digital Imaging Production Assistant, is working with BPL’s recently acquired BC100 camera workstation. This high-resolution book scanning system has two cameras to capture images of both sides of a book simultaneously. The equipment is…

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  • BPL Photographer Rose’s Favorite Format!

    Hello statewide friends! This month, we have a post from one of our illustrious staff photographers. Rose Ingerman is our Digital Imaging Production Assistant, and photographs the majority of statewide materials that come into the BPL through the program. Seeing as she has seen as much of the materials that come through our doors as…

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  • New England Immigration Stories by Students

    by Maureen Mann, MLS Elementary Library Media Specialist Wellesley Public Schools & member of the Outreach & Education Committee The University of Massachusetts Lowell (U-Mass Lowell) has created two timely resources for K-12 educators to enhance immigration studies.  As the Biden administration works to redefine pathways to citizenship for our southern borders over the coming months, these…

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