New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in April
Check out the cool new items added to Boston Public Library’s collections in Digital Commonwealth this past month! Anti-Slavery Collection – 1000 new items Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts – 2 new items Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). Prints and Drawings – 619 items
Building on a Decade of Success
On April 5 the Digital Commonwealth held its 10th annual conference and 10th anniversary celebration at the Hogan Center at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester MA. It was the largest conference in years and afterwards over 90 people joined us to commemorate the anniversary. Thanks to the hard work of the conference committee…
Guest Post: Digitization and Access at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
By Michael Lapides, Director of Digital Initiatives at New Bedford Whaling Museum Back in 2012 a team from the Boston Public Library, led by Tom Blake, came to New Bedford to recruit the Museum into the Digital Commonwealth. We are so happy they did! While we had and still have a massive online collections database…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in March
This month we’ve added a lot of new items to already existing collections, and we harvested 25 new collections from the Provincetown History Preservation Project! Make sure you check out the great new photographs, videos, manuscripts, artwork, and other materials added this month! Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery (Collection of Distinction) : 500 items added to…
Guest Post: Griffin Museum of Photography
By Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography The Digital Commonwealth has changed how Arthur Griffin is seen by our audience. Making Mr. Griffin’s images available on-line after digitizing of a portion of our archives has opened up interest by the public in ways we never thought would happen. We have had…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in February
Not only have we added some awesome new hosted collections in February, we’ve also harvested 99 collections from UMass Amherst! Check them all out! Boston Public Library Boston (Mass.) Overseers of the Poor Indentures, 1734-1805 – 18 items added to existing collection Emily Dickinson Collection, 18962-1907 – 135 items Fore-Edge Paintings – 214 items…