A Closer Look: Cape Verdean Beneficent Association, New Bedford
By Jodi Goodman, Head of Special Collections New Bedford Free Public Library This photo of the Cape Verdean Beneficent Association, New Bedford, is in the recently added Oliveira Photograph Collection (New Bedford Free Public Library), which highlights New Bedford’s Portuguese community in the early twentieth century. Established in 1916, the Cape Verdean Beneficent Association (Associação Beneficente Caboverdeana)…
Restoring the story: Granville Public Library’s local history collection, Part I
A year ago, I got the listing of new collections added to the Digital Commonwealth. I expect the Boston Public Library and UMass/Amherst to have extraordinary collections on Digital Commonwealth. I am much more impressed when a small institution, like the Granville Public Library (GPL), uploads a collection that is impressive in its depth and…
New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in May
May is supposed to be the payoff for all those April showers. Only the showers kept coming in May. Digital Commonwealth was showered by harvested images from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (17,335 items), Boston TV New Digital Library (1,632 items) and the University of Massachusetts/Lowell (6,825 items). Theophile Alexandre Steinlen is more than…
Spotlight on…Peter Simon Collection
Written by Anne Berard, Reference& Outreach Librarian, Milford Town Library Peter Simon, prolific photographer, author, chronicler of Martha’s Vineyard, and brother of singer Carly Simon, died in November 2018. Digital Commonwealth (via the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Massachusetts,…
Focus on Context, Access, and Inequality: My Takeaway from the 2019 Digital Commonwealth Conference
The Digital Commonwealth awarded free attendance to the annual conference this year to student, Maxwell Lisanti. We are happy to present Maxwell’s report on the conference today. My Takeaway from the 2019 Digital Commonwealth Conference By Maxwell Lisanti, MLIS Candidate ‘19, Simmons University I am weeks away from finishing my MLIS degree and Archives Management concentration at…