Author: BPL Statewide
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…
Digital Commonwealth August 2025 Statistics
Hi everyone, and happy belated Labor Day! Here are your monthly DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics for the month of August: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (936 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1927-1930) Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction) (8 items; prayer books and other liturgical texts from the 15th and 16th centuries) Norman…
Digital Commonwealth July 2025 Statistics
Hi everyone – here are your July 2025 Digital Commonwealth statistics: Hosted collections added: Boston Little Syria Project: • Nicholas and Evelyn Haddad Family Collection (36 items; lace work created by Selma Courie Haddad and Rachel Skeirik Haddad from 1910-1960) Boston Public Library: • Boston Herald (2,022 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1922-1927)…