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  • New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in April

      April was a dark and gloomy month weather-wise.  Maybe that accounts for there only being three contributors this month.  The Boston Public Library added 1873 items to the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee collection, bringing that collection up to over 5,000 items.  Boston College re-harvested over 80 items.  Lawrence Public Library contributed many small collections and…

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  • New Bookmarks!

    We’re very excited to present our newest promotion effort: Bookmarks! We have two styles of bookmark designed to raise awareness about our wonderfully rich online resources. The Digital Commonwealth exists to advance the dissemination of collections from Massachusetts to a wider audience through shared resources and a single website. These bookmarks are a fun way to…

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  • Digital Commonwealth Portal Presented at Home and Abroad

    Recently, Digital Repository Developer Steven Anderson and Web Services Developer Eben English presented at the Open Repositories 2014 conference in Helsinki and at the Northeast Fedora Users Group (NEFUG) meeting in Boston. Open Repositories is an annual international conference that brings together people and institutions responsible for the development, implementation, and management of digital repositories…

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