Category: BPL Partnership

  • Lee Library Association’s Digitization Project

    This blog post explores the Lee Library Association’s project and is the first in a series presenting and following up on members’ projects from their perspective. Mary Philpott, President of the Lee Library Association Board of Directors, sees her library’s partnership with the Digital Commonwealth and the Boston Public Library as a great community building…

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  • BPL Announces Beta Release of the New Digital Commonwealth Repository

    The BPL is pleased to announce that they have now moved into the “beta launch” phase of the rollout of the Hydra-based Digital Commonwealth repository platform. The new URLs are: Search (public discovery): http://search.digitalcommonwealth.org/ Admin (ingest & management): http://admin.digitalcommonwealth.org/ Features Not all features are fully implemented as yet. Here is what’s available: Public Search app:…

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  • Funding approved for continued digitization for Digital Commonwealth members

    Earlier this month the Governor approved the inclusion of $147,532 in the state FY14 budget to continue digitization for Digital Commonwealth members under the BPL’s Library for the Commonwealth program. This money will continue the digital-imaging services that the BPL has provided in partnership with Digital Commonwealth since 2011 through funding provided by a LSTA…

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