BPL Photographer Rose’s Favorite Format!
Hello statewide friends! This month, we have a post from one of our illustrious staff photographers. Rose Ingerman is our Digital Imaging Production Assistant, and photographs the majority of statewide materials that come into the BPL through the program. Seeing as she has seen as much of the materials that come through our doors as…
Digital Commonwealth May 2025 Statistics
Hi folks – with apologies for being a week late, here are our May 2025 statistics: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Herald (4837 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1878-1909) In Lieu of Flowers: Photographs by Caleb Cole (6 items; memorial portraits of trans people murdered in the United States and Puerto Rico…
Digital Commonwealth April 2025 Statistics
Happy Monday, everyone, and here is our April 2025 collections update! Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Herald (2,450 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1858-1877) The Boston Traveler (2,341 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1931-1946) Massachusetts Archives: Accounts of Guardians of the Dudley Indians, 1801-1857 (bulk 1801-1846)(46 items; financial accounts from…
A Conversation with BPL & Digital Commonwealth Education Fellow Lara DeRose
For this post, we’d like to revisit a collaboration between Boston Public Library and the Digital Commonwealth Inc. nonprofit. In 2022, BPL and DC Inc. applied for and received grant funding to hire an Education Fellow, with the goal of increasing usage of DigitalCommonwealth.org resources in the classroom. Lara DeRose worked with local educators, agencies,…
Digital Commonwealth March 2025 Statistics
Going forward, and with thanks to the Repository team here at BPL, we’ll be sharing some statistics on new collections being shared for the first time on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Below is our first update, for March 2025. Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Traveler (1,776 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1925-1931) Joseph Connolly…
Digital Commonwealth Partnership Update from BPL
The following message was sent via email to all Statewide partners institutions on March 26, 2025, and also shared via the MBLC All-Regions email list. We’re sharing it here to ensure all our partners and community members have access to this information about Statewide services and the decision to end the formal BPL-Digital Commonwealth, Inc.…