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  • Content display problems on Digital Commonwealth collections site

    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 manage content in the Digital Commonwealth repository without any notification. The provider flagged…

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  • Digital Commonwealth August 2025 Statistics

    Hi everyone, and happy belated Labor Day! Here are your monthly DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics for the month of August: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Boston Herald  (936 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1927-1930) Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)  (8 items; prayer books and other liturgical texts from the 15th and 16th centuries) Norman…

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  • Where We Are Now

    In the last blog post, we mentioned that with more people being vaccinated, crowds would once again be gathering. Not so fast, said COVID. As we enter our third pandemic year now with the fierce Omicron variant infecting even fully vaxxed individuals, we need to re-adjust our activities once again. Additional booster shots will probably…

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