Digital Commonwealth
Highlights from our members
Washington Square and Beacon Street
Postcard depicting the corner of Beacon Street and Washington Street.
Brookline Public Library
West Bridgewater grammar school students
Twenty-eight students posed on steps of West Bridgewater school. Date 1905?
SAILS Digital History Collection
Bringing in wood, Chesterfield, Mass.
Illustration in "The Farmer's Boy, " written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson and published in 1894.
C/WMARS
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Merchants and Miners Wharf
Photo shot from rear window of 370 Atlantic Ave. Boston, The Geo. F. Newell Mfg Co. (Pier used by Baltimore & Norfolk ships)
Newton Free Library, Newell Family Album
Announcements>
Seventh Annual Digital Library Conference and Vendor Fair
May 1, 2013, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, at the
Devens Commons Center,
Devens, Massachusetts. For full details visit the
2013 Conference page.
Digital Commonwealth and Boston Public Library Announce Application for Free Digitization Services: Please read about the recent grant and the application process by which Digital Commonwealth members may apply for free digitization services from the BPL. A grant from the MBLC (and funded by the LSTA) has made this excellent opportunity available.
Plan of Service: The Plan of Service for FY2012 is available. See also Digital Commonwealth's Strategic Plan.
Lesson Plans Featuring Digital Materials. Digital Commonwealth has awarded grants to teachers who developed lessons plans using digital content from Digital Commonwealth's portal. Please read about lesson plans developed by Tia Esposito and Sudi Smoller and Diane Devine .To read about the grant, please see http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/doc/rft_lessons_2010.
For an overview to the digitization process, please visit the "Getting Started with Digital Commonwealth" page or the PDF version of "Getting Started." PDF version of "Getting Started" (available from a different server).
Become a Member: We invite all Massachusetts cultural institutions to join us. Visit our membership page for more information about the rights and responsibilities of membership types and see a list of members. Download Membership Form/Invoice for fy2012(PDF).
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