Digital Commonwealth Reaches School Librarians at MSLA
Digital Commonwealth board members Kim Cochrane and Deb Dejonker-Berry teamed up to present “Connect to the Community: Using Digital Commonwealth Collections to Develop Lesson Plans” at the MSLA conference on March 10, 2014 in Hyannis, Massachusetts: http://maschoolibraries.org/content/view/1195/791/ The Massachusetts School Library Association annual conference is attended by school librarians and educators, and also graduate students…
2014 Digital Commonwealth Annual Conference
The 2014 Annual Conference is approaching! April 8 at the Hogan Center, Holy Cross, Worcester. Registration begins at 8:00 am and sessions will run from 9:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Full details available on the conference web page. Breakout sessions include: Introduction to the Digital Commonwealth New and Improved Digital Commonwealth System Digital Preservation Conservation…
Digital Commonwealth Movers & Shakers 2014
Congratulations to the Digital Commonwealth Movers & Shakers of 2014 just announced by Library Journal (http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/people/movers-shakers-2014/movers-shakers-2014). Featured in the new selection of stellar talent are two local librarians who have had a long and significant involvement with Digital Commonwealth: current board member Tom Blake as well as retired board member and past president Kristi Chadwick.…
8th Annual Digital Library Conference, 2014
Registration is now open for “Practically Digital: Doing What it Takes”, to be held on Tuesday, April 8th, at the Hogan Center at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. The conference will feature keynote sessions by Melissa Levine, the Lead Copyright Officer from the University of Michigan Library, and Liz Bishoff, of the…
The Public Library of Brookline’s Digitization Experience, by Anne Reed
(Anne Reed is the Assistant Director for Administration at the Brookline Public Library) The Public Library of Brookline has worked with the Digital Commonwealth since 2007 when Anne Clark uploaded 10 historical photographs into the repository, and provided feedback on the data entry and batch uploading process. From this beginning, Anne Clark and I selected…