Category: Features
Guest Post: Yarmouth Public Library’s Unique Carved Bird Collection
By Trish Cassisi When I attended the Digital Commonwealth conference in 2014, I was focused on digitizing our Yarmouth town reports dating back to the 1860’s, but, I began re-thinking that by the end of the conference. Tom Blake talked about digitizing items other than text-only resources and it encouraged me to go back to…
Guest Post: Digitization and Access at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
By Michael Lapides, Director of Digital Initiatives at New Bedford Whaling Museum Back in 2012 a team from the Boston Public Library, led by Tom Blake, came to New Bedford to recruit the Museum into the Digital Commonwealth. We are so happy they did! While we had and still have a massive online collections database…
Guest Post: Griffin Museum of Photography
By Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography The Digital Commonwealth has changed how Arthur Griffin is seen by our audience. Making Mr. Griffin’s images available on-line after digitizing of a portion of our archives has opened up interest by the public in ways we never thought would happen. We have had…