Category: Features
Grove Hall Memory Project
This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. When the Grove Hall Branch of the Boston Public Library began planning the Grove Hall Memory Project, it was their intention to make it available in a digital format. Katrina Morse, now the Parker Hill Branch librarian and the driving force behind the…
Stephen Moskey on Digital Commonwealth
This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. Stephen T. Moskey spoke about his new book, Larz and Isabel Anderson: Wealth and Celebrity in the Gilded Age, at the Boston Public Library recently. He could not say enough nice things about how helpful Digital Commonwealth was to his research on this…
Disambiguation and Serendipity, or Why I Love My Job
This post was written by Susan Aprill, Archivist at Kingston Public Library One of the challenges and delights of describing Kingston’s historic photographs for the Digital Commonwealth lies in identifying places, figuring out what they are and what they’ve been called, then when I’m lucky, uncovering and disambiguating the hidden corners of the past. The…