An Undergrad on a Mission: Attending the Digital Commonwealth Annual Conference – Jacob Loberti
The Digital Commonwealth awarded three students free attendance to the annual conference this year. All three have written blog posts about their experience. We are happy to present the third of these reports today. Jacob Loberti is our third student correspondent. A sophomore at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, Jacob is majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Business.…
A Glance at the 12th Annual Digital Commonwealth Conference – Daniel Chivvis
The Digital Commonwealth awarded three students free attendance to the annual conference this year. All three have written blog posts about their experience. We are happy to present the second of these reports today. Our second report comes from Daniel Chivvis, a graduate student at the Simmons School of Library & Information Science. His focus is…
Outreach and Accessibility in the Digital World: A report from the Digital Commonwealth Annual Conference – Ashley Miller
The Digital Commonwealth awarded three students free attendance to the annual conference this year. All three have written blog posts about their experience. We are happy to present the first of these reports today. Ashley Miller is currently finishing up coursework in Simmons College’s dual-degree History and Archives Management Master’s program. She has used the Digital Commonwealth…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in April
All those April showers (rain and snow alike) brought over 3,300 new items to the Digital Commonwealth. The largest donation came from the National Archives at Boston with its Watertown Arsenal Photographs collection. The photos of bright shining new armaments contrast sharply with the Franklin Historical Museum’s riveting Images of World War I Battlefields collection. …
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in March
March came in like a lion and then refused to leave like a lamb. Can we get a refund from Mother Nature? Perhaps a few extra days of fall? Digital Commonwealth never sleeps, though; witness the many additions to the collections last month. My personal favorite proves that bad hair days are not a 21st…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in February
This month, the Boston Public Library (BPL) added 36 items from its M.C. Escher prints and drawings collection. It also happens that this month the Museum of Fine Arts opened an exhibit of M.C. Escher prints. Great minds really do think alike. In addition, the BPL added items to six existing collections as well as…