New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in June
This summer kicks off with some awesome new Massachusetts collections added to the Digital Commonwealth! Check them out: Bentley University Bentley University Historic Photograph Collection : 500 items Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery (Collection of Distinction) : 2993 items added to an existing collection Grove Hall Memory Project : 75 items Shakespeare (Collection of Distinction) :…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in May
This month we added some great collections from several libraries, archives, and museums. Check out some of the new things you can now find in the Digital Commonwealth! Harvard Forest Archives Harvard Forest Martha’s Vineyard Collection – 169 items Perkins School for the Blind Anne Sullivan Photograph Collection – 34 items Laura Bridgman Collection –…
Guest Post: Yarmouth Public Library’s Unique Carved Bird Collection
By Trish Cassisi When I attended the Digital Commonwealth conference in 2014, I was focused on digitizing our Yarmouth town reports dating back to the 1860’s, but, I began re-thinking that by the end of the conference. Tom Blake talked about digitizing items other than text-only resources and it encouraged me to go back to…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in April
Check out the cool new items added to Boston Public Library’s collections in Digital Commonwealth this past month! Anti-Slavery Collection – 1000 new items Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts – 2 new items Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). Prints and Drawings – 619 items
Building on a Decade of Success
On April 5 the Digital Commonwealth held its 10th annual conference and 10th anniversary celebration at the Hogan Center at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester MA. It was the largest conference in years and afterwards over 90 people joined us to commemorate the anniversary. Thanks to the hard work of the conference committee…
Guest Post: Digitization and Access at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
By Michael Lapides, Director of Digital Initiatives at New Bedford Whaling Museum Back in 2012 a team from the Boston Public Library, led by Tom Blake, came to New Bedford to recruit the Museum into the Digital Commonwealth. We are so happy they did! While we had and still have a massive online collections database…