News & Announcements

Category: Announcements

Half-Day Workshop on Developing Lesson Plans
On Monday, June 24, 2013, Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts held a free half-day workshop focusing on developing lesson plans featuring digital content. The workshop was held at the Whittemore Library, Framingham State University, and was attended by school library media specialists, new teachers, and professionals from cultural organizations interested in making (and using) digital content…
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July 3, 2013
Amy Benson hired to advise members on Metadata procedures
Over the next several months, until the end of the calendar year, Digital Commonwealth will be providing metadata production and quality control assistance for collections digitized under the BPL’s LSTA-funded statewide digitization program. The goal is to assure that at least 40,000 records are prepared for ingest into the new repository system from at least…
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July 1, 2013
Three new members added to Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors
Digital Commonwealth is pleased to announce the addition of three new members on the board of directors to replace outgoing board members. The three new members are Debra DeJonker-Berry from the Jonathan Bourne Public Library, Kelcy Shepard from Amherst College, and Elizabeth Thomsen from the NOBLE network. These new members will be replacing Sarah Campbell…
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July 1, 2013