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Digital Commonwealth April 2025 Statistics
Happy Monday, everyone, and here is our April 2025 collections update! Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Herald (2,450 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1858-1877) The Boston Traveler (2,341 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1931-1946) Massachusetts Archives: Accounts of Guardians of the Dudley Indians, 1801-1857 (bulk 1801-1846)(46 items; financial accounts from…
A Conversation with BPL & Digital Commonwealth Education Fellow Lara DeRose
For this post, we’d like to revisit a collaboration between Boston Public Library and the Digital Commonwealth Inc. nonprofit. In 2022, BPL and DC Inc. applied for and received grant funding to hire an Education Fellow, with the goal of increasing usage of DigitalCommonwealth.org resources in the classroom. Lara DeRose worked with local educators, agencies,…
Digital Commonwealth March 2025 Statistics
Going forward, and with thanks to the Repository team here at BPL, we’ll be sharing some statistics on new collections being shared for the first time on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Below is our first update, for March 2025. Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Traveler (1,776 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1925-1931) Joseph Connolly…