Author: dcwpadmin

  • Alison Kemp: Digital Commonwealth’s Membership Manager

    Digital Commonwealth has recently hired Alison Kemp as a temporary employee to help manage member accounts and perform other administrative tasks as time permits. She is beginning at ten hours per week. Alison currently works part-time as the administrative assistant at the Newton Free Library. She has held previous positions as a resource and communications…

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  • NEA Spring Meeting: Panel on the State of Statewide Repositories

    Archives, libraries, and special collections all over New England have digitized vast numbers of items from their collections and made them available on the Web. Metadata aggregation is one option for promoting discoverability to a wide audience and some states have (or are working towards having) the technological infrastructure and overseeing agency to host metadata…

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  • Public Librarian Partnership Program: First Meeting

    A group of 14 public librarians gathered at the Boston Public Library on April 16, 2014 for the Public Librarian Partnership Program (PLPP). This is the first of three workshops offered by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to work directly with public librarians across the state to produce an exhibit of national interest from…

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