Digital Commonwealth in the News
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator posted an article called, “Project Save hosts an afternoon of thanks for donors and supporters” on December 7, 2017. You may remember Project SAVE from our October 9, 2017 blog post when we highlighted them as one of our new collections from September. The article mentions, as we did, that Project SAVE had…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in November
If you were a little sad to see your feathered friends head south last month, take a gander (pun intended) at the John James Audubon The Birds of America drawings digitized by the Boston Public Library in November. You won’t want to miss the weirdly wonderful Roseate Spoonbill below: There is, once again, something for…
Digital Commonwealth: More than digitization services
The Digital Commonwealth Outreach and Education Committee is responsible for all the workshops and classes that Digital Commonwealth offers to the cultural institutions of Massachusetts. While DC has offered workshops on metadata, the digitization process and understanding copyright, the popularity of the digital exhibit workshops took us by surprise. We started with a workshop on…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in October
As we pack away the ghosts and goblins of Halloween and prepare for Thanksgiving, let us give thanks: …to the Annisquam Historical Society for sharing a lovely sketch of the I Am Here schooner amongst its 86 historical documents. …to the Boston Public Library – and especially to the Leventhal Map Center – for continuing…
A Closer Look: “The Devil” will smile
Written by Patricia Feeley, Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Boston Public Library This eerie optical illusion postcard (left) comes from the Fall River Public Library’s Historic Postcards, c. 1880-1970 collection. It advertises a production of Ferenc (Franz) Molnar’s play, The Devil. With Halloween coming up, I think it deserves A Closer Look. The title leads us to see the…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in September
Just in time for Armenian Independence Day on September 21, Project SAVE Archives Banquet and Panoramic Photo Collection added 222 items to Digital Commonwealth – including the nearby photo of the World Armenian Congress held at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The place was packed! I honestly don’t know how those people got served. In addition,…