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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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  • Knapp Family Financial Records

    by Anne Berard, Reference & Outreach Librarian, Milford Town Library, member Digital Commonwealth Education & Outreach Committee When I first saw the name of the recently added collection, Knapp Family Financial Records from the Jamaica Plain Historical Society, I must admit I was expecting something else altogether.  I thought I might find wills, codicils, estate…

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