Digital Commonwealth October 2025 Statistics
Hello, and happy belated Halloween! Here are your October 2025 DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: John B. Sanromá Photograph Collection (9023 items; photographs of events, places, and people by the former Boston Traveler photographer from 1929-1955) Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives: Boston Symphony Orchestra Historical Score Collection (ca. 1881-1980s) (333 items; musical scores used…
RESOLVED: Content display problems on DigitalCommonwealth.org
UPDATE: All content display issues have been resolved as of Saturday October 18. We are currently dealing with an ongoing problem displaying digitized content (images, audio, video, documents, etc.) on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Our cloud storage provider, Microsoft, has temporarily disabled access to the storage account used by Boston Public Library’s Digital & Online Services department to…
Digital Commonwealth September 2025 Statistics
Hi everyone — here are your monthly DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics for September. Happy Autumn! Hosted collections added: American Antiquarian Society: Political Cartoons from AAS (54 items; American political cartoons from 1760-1900) Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (448 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1930-1931) Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (7 items; manuscripts and books from 1200-1699) Revolution! 250…
Photographing a loose-leaf binder under the BC100 book scanning station
The Digital & Online Services department is excited to announce the latest addition to our imaging team! Jade Alderman, our new Digital Imaging Production Assistant, is working with BPL’s recently acquired BC100 camera workstation. This high-resolution book scanning system has two cameras to capture images of both sides of a book simultaneously. The equipment is…
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…
Digital Commonwealth July 2025 Statistics
Hi everyone – here are your July 2025 Digital Commonwealth statistics: Hosted collections added: Boston Little Syria Project: • Nicholas and Evelyn Haddad Family Collection (36 items; lace work created by Selma Courie Haddad and Rachel Skeirik Haddad from 1910-1960) Boston Public Library: • Boston Herald (2,022 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1922-1927)…