Category: Features
Lawrence Public Library Collections
This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian from an interview she conducted with Louise Sandberg of the Lawrence Public Library. Louise Sandberg of the Lawrence Public Library began working with archival materials the “minute I was hired,” so she recognized a great opportunity to expand the reach of her collection after…
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…