Restoring the story: Granville Public Library’s local history collection, Part I
A year ago, I got the listing of new collections added to the Digital Commonwealth. I expect the Boston Public Library and UMass/Amherst to have extraordinary collections on Digital Commonwealth. I am much more impressed when a small institution, like the Granville Public Library (GPL), uploads a collection that is impressive in its depth and…
New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in May
May is supposed to be the payoff for all those April showers. Only the showers kept coming in May. Digital Commonwealth was showered by harvested images from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (17,335 items), Boston TV New Digital Library (1,632 items) and the University of Massachusetts/Lowell (6,825 items). Theophile Alexandre Steinlen is more than…
Spotlight on…Peter Simon Collection
Written by Anne Berard, Reference& Outreach Librarian, Milford Town Library Peter Simon, prolific photographer, author, chronicler of Martha’s Vineyard, and brother of singer Carly Simon, died in November 2018. Digital Commonwealth (via the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Massachusetts,…
Focus on Context, Access, and Inequality: My Takeaway from the 2019 Digital Commonwealth Conference
The Digital Commonwealth awarded free attendance to the annual conference this year to student, Maxwell Lisanti. We are happy to present Maxwell’s report on the conference today. My Takeaway from the 2019 Digital Commonwealth Conference By Maxwell Lisanti, MLIS Candidate ‘19, Simmons University I am weeks away from finishing my MLIS degree and Archives Management concentration at…
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…
Taunton: Then and now
Earlier this month, the Taunton Daily Gazette began a new, occasional series called Taunton: Then and Now. The Gazette is providing all the Now photos, but the Then photos come courtesy of Digital Commonwealth. I leave it up to you to decide if the no difference public library photos are more remarkable than the…