Category: New Collections
Digital Commonwealth: April 2026 New Collections
Hello DC users! Here are some new collections now available online, including some exciting additions to our newspapers: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Vin Catania Collection (298 items; photographs of prominent Boston politicians, events, and locations from 1977-2002) Seekonk Public Library: The Seekonk Star (60 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1972-1983) University of Massachusetts
Digital Commonwealth: March 2026 New Collections
Happy early spring, DC.org users. Here are the latest collections in the repository: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (501 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1935-1936) Incunabula (2 items; early printed texts from 1482-1497, including Ptolemy’s Geographia) Maginnis & Walsh Architectural Records (226 items; plans and drawings from the prominent Boston-based architectural firm from
Inside the Imaging Process for Brittle Newspapers on the BC100 Book Scanner
Spring has come quickly around the corner, and Digital Commonwealth is blooming with new additions. Check out our previous blog posts for information on our new collections, plus other insights into photography and digital preservation at BPL. One of our staff photographers, Jade Alderman, has some insight into the process of photographing two books from