Author: Sadie Roosa

  • Williams College Digital Collections

    This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. Jessika Drmacich was hired for the newly-created Records Manager & Digital Resources Archivist position at Williams College five years ago.  Jessika’s career has included stops at Rolling Stone magazine in New York City and the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge before landing in Williamstown. Asking Jessika…

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  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in February

    Even though February is the shortest month of the year, we still managed to get a lot of new items into the Digital Commonwealth! Don’t miss any of the amazing new collections, including Judge Garrity’s chamber papers on the Boston Desegregation Case and historic photos of  campus life at Mass Art in the 1800s. Boston Public…

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  • BPL’s Sacco and Vanzetti Collection

    This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. Kimberly Reynolds, Curator of Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library, wanted to recognize the 90th anniversary of the deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were arrested and convicted of murder during the…

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