Digital Commonwealth: July 2026 New Collections
Here are the latest collections added to DigitalCommonwealth.0rg: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Boston Public Library Government Documents Collection (5 items; government publications related to Boston school desegregation and transportation planning) Boston Public Library Serials Collection (5 items; bound volumes of the Atlantic Monthly and other serial publications from the late 1800s) WHDH Collection (245 items; film segments from…
Digital Commonwealth: June 2026 New Collections
Hello DigitalCommonwealth.org users, and happy Fourth of July! Here are the latest new collections in the repository: Hosted collections added: Armenian Business Network: Janet Acopian Yegumians Collection: 2500th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Persian Empire, October 1971, Iran (10 items; documents related to the 2500th Anniversary Celebration of the Persian Empire, held at Persepolis…
Digital Commonwealth: May 2026 New Collections
Hello DC users — here are the most recent collections in the repository over the last month: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (243 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1936-1937) Cabinet Card Collection (1 item; portrait of an indigenous person ca. 1880–1920) Carte de Visite Collection (1 item; rare portrait of African American barber,…
Digital Commonwealth: April 2026 New Collections
Hello DC users! Here are some new collections now available online, including some exciting additions to our newspapers: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Vin Catania Collection (298 items; photographs of prominent Boston politicians, events, and locations from 1977-2002) Seekonk Public Library: The Seekonk Star (60 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1972-1983) University of Massachusetts…
Digital Commonwealth: March 2026 New Collections
Happy early spring, DC.org users. Here are the latest collections in the repository: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (501 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1935-1936) Incunabula (2 items; early printed texts from 1482-1497, including Ptolemy’s Geographia) Maginnis & Walsh Architectural Records (226 items; plans and drawings from the prominent Boston-based architectural firm from…
Inside the Imaging Process for Brittle Newspapers on the BC100 Book Scanner
Spring has come quickly around the corner, and Digital Commonwealth is blooming with new additions. Check out our previous blog posts for information on our new collections, plus other insights into photography and digital preservation at BPL. One of our staff photographers, Jade Alderman, has some insight into the process of photographing two books from…