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  • Behind the Scenes: How Rare Books are Photographed Under the BC100 Camera Setup

    Check out our previous imaging blog posts for more insights into photography and digital preservation at BPL.  Happy holiday season to all our readers and partner institutions! We’re excited to share another post from one of our staff photographers, Jade Alderman. Jade joined us just this summer, and she has had the chance to photograph

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  • Digital Commonwealth November 2025 Statistics

    Hello DigitalCommonwealth.org patrons — happy holiday season! Here are your November 2025 DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics:   Hosted collections added: Ashby Free Public Library: Ashby Free Public Library Media Collection (718 items; photographs and media from various town events, including the 1967 Bicentennial) Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (285 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1931-1932) The

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  • RESOLVED: Content display problems on DigitalCommonwealth.org

    UPDATE: All content display issues have been resolved as of Saturday October 18. We are currently dealing with an ongoing problem displaying digitized content (images, audio, video, documents, etc.) on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Our cloud storage provider, Microsoft, has temporarily disabled access to the storage account used by Boston Public Library’s Digital & Online Services department to

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