Category: Features

  • Trustees of the Reservations

    This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. For a 126-year-old organization, the Trustees of Reservations is not that well-known for its cultural heritage collections.  People are often familiar with the properties they own – the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Naumkeag in Stockbridge, World’s End in Hingham or Dinosaur Footprints in Holyoke…

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  • 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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  • 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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