• New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in March

    Along with the new season, Digital Commonwealth also brings you many new collections of beautiful and historical content to explore. Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery – 22 items added to existing collection Colonial and Revolutionary Boston – 4 items added to existing collection Cuneiform Tablets – 9 items Incunabula – 6 items Medieval and Early Renaissance…

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  • Williams College Digital Collections

    This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. Jessika Drmacich was hired for the newly-created Records Manager & Digital Resources Archivist position at Williams College five years ago.  Jessika’s career has included stops at Rolling Stone magazine in New York City and the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge before landing in Williamstown. Asking Jessika…

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  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in February

    Even though February is the shortest month of the year, we still managed to get a lot of new items into the Digital Commonwealth! Don’t miss any of the amazing new collections, including Judge Garrity’s chamber papers on the Boston Desegregation Case and historic photos of  campus life at Mass Art in the 1800s. Boston Public…

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  • BPL’s Sacco and Vanzetti Collection

    This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. Kimberly Reynolds, Curator of Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library, wanted to recognize the 90th anniversary of the deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were arrested and convicted of murder during the…

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  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in January

    To start of 2017 right, we’ve added several amazing new collections to the Digital Commonwealth portal. Check them out! American Archive of Public Broadcasting American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection – 13,707 items harvested Billerica Public Library  Billerica, Massachusetts: History Capture on Glass – 1074 items Jamaica Plain Historical Society Jamaica Plain Historical Society Photo…

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  • Jones Library’s Digital Amherst in Digital Commonwealth

    This post was written by Patricia Feeley, BPL Collaborative Services Librarian. Cynthia Harbeson, Head of Special Collections at the Jones Library, began her job in January 2015. Amherst greeted her with the snowiest winter on record and a digital website in disrepair. She resolved to make Digital Amherst great again. Happily for Cyndi, Sharon Sharry,…

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