Author: BPL Statewide
Digital Commonwealth September 2025 Statistics
Hi everyone — here are your monthly DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics for September. Happy Autumn! Hosted collections added: American Antiquarian Society: Political Cartoons from AAS (54 items; American political cartoons from 1760-1900) Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (448 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1930-1931) Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (7 items; manuscripts and books from 1200-1699) Revolution! 250…
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…