• 2013 Conference: Two Superb Keynote Presentations

    7th Annual Digital Library Conference May 1, 2013, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, at the Devens Commons Center, 31 Andrews Parkway, Devens, Massachusetts. Registration Fees: Digital Commonwealth Members: $95 Students: $95 Non-Members: $110 Advanced Registration Deadline: April 20, 2013 Register Today! For full schedule and program descriptions, view this PDF document 9:45 – 10:45       …

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  • Developing Lesson Plans with Digital Content from Digital Commonwealth

    Are you a teacher (4th grade to 12th grade) who is interested in developing lesson plans featuring digital content?  Could you benefit from a half-day workshop focused on learning about digital collections and ideas about how to use digitized primary source materials within the classroom?  Please consider attending a free workshop on June 24th!  The…

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  • Digitization Training Sessions 2012 Wrap-up

    During 2012, Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts offered 8 digitization training sessions for staff from libraries, archives, and cultural institutions who were interested in issues relating to the creation and enhancement of digital collections.   Thanks to grant funding, no registration fees were charged to attendees! A recent LSTA grant awarded to the Boston Public Library (BPL)…

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  • 7th Annual Digital Library Conference

    7th Annual Digital Library Conference May 1, 2013, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, at the Devens Commons Center, 31 Andrews Parkway, Devens, Massachusetts.    Registration Fees: Digital Commonwealth Members: $95 Students: $95 Non-Members: $110 Advanced Registration Deadline: April 20, 2013   Keynote Speakers: Amy Rudersdorf, Assistant Director for Content, Digital Public Library of America Butch Lazorchak,…

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  • January 2013 Newsletter

    All the latest news from the Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts! Updates for January, 2013 This Issue highlights three reports about repository projects involving Digital Commonwealth and the Boston Public Library Digital Commonwealth announces the release of its new Omeka repository system Last week Digital Commonwealth released its new open-source Omeka repository system as a temporary…

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  • Digital Commonwealth releases new Omeka system

    Digital Commonwealth is pleased to announce the release of an Omeka replacement for the digital harvesting Portal. Now when you navigate to http://digitalcommonwealth.org, instead of accessing the old Portal you access a new site built on the open-source Omeka repository platform. We pursued this replacement to allow us to continue providing customer services while the…

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