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Conversations on the Commons: Working with the Digital Commonwealth
February 18, 2022 @ 12:00 am - 1:30 pm
Sharing Your Stuff: Working with the Digital Commonwealth
February 18, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
With Jake Sadow, Statewide Digitization Project Archivist at Boston Public Library, and Betsy McKee, Secretary and member of the Collections Committee at Longmeadow Historical Society
Have you considered working with the Digital Commonwealth to digitize any of your collections and get them online? Join us for a conversation on what it takes to do so, with Jake Sadow of the Boston Public Library. What does it take to get your collection up on the Digital Commonwealth? Are there any obstacles and challenges? What part is easy? What does it take to prepare? Do you have to be an archivist to do this? What is the “rights” situation and how much does it cost?
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE!
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Jake Sadow is the Statewide Digitization Project Archivist for the Boston Public Library. He project manages the Statewide Digitization program, serving as a liaison between Massachusetts-based cultural heritage institutions and digitization staff at the Boston Public Library. He has worked with over 300 institutions to get their cultural heritage collections online, including libraries, museums, historical societies and universities. He also acts as an educator, raising awareness among library and information professionals of issues in digitization and promoting conversations between institutions to address those issues.
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- My interest in antiques and history began when I lived in an old house in western New York. We started married life with hand-me-down furniture to furnish our two-room apartment. We began to appreciate that our “used” furniture was a lot nicer than the typical cheap student furnishings. I completed my Masters’ degree in Nursing and practiced as a Family Nurse Practitioner. We moved to Massachusetts and purchased our second old house. A chance discovery revealed that the original owner was a gravestone carver. Since that time, we have tramped over hundreds of old cemeteries in multiple states and taken some 36,000 photos. I am the President of the Longmeadow Cemetery Association and the Pioneer Valley History Network. I am also on the board of the Longmeadow Historical Society. I am a member of the Springfield Weavers’ Guild, and my paying job is at Historic Deerfield.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.