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)…
Digital Commonwealth June 2025 Statistics
Happy 4th of July week, everyone! Here’s the latest new materials on DigitalCommonwealth.org: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: Boston Herald (1,181 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1919-1922) The Boston Herald (3,009 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1909-1917) Boston Herald and Boston Journal (433 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1917-1918)…
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…