17th Annual Digital Commonwealth Conference
April 11, 2023, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

Posted March 7, 2023

Facing the Digital Future: Addressing Systemic Issues in Cultural Heritage

Please join us for an amazing line-up of distinguished speakers at this year’s conference, including keynote speaker Jamillah R. Gabriel, Critical Pedagogy Research Librarian at Harvard University. #DCCon23

The Digital Commonwealth’s 17th Annual Conference will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday April 11, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM US Eastern Time. Zoom links will be sent to registrants closer to the day of the Conference.

Register Here: https://membership.digitalcommonwealth.org/event-5038256

Introducing our Keynote Speaker: Jamillah R. Gabriel

Jamillah R. Gabriel is the Critical Pedagogy Research Librarian in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and a sixth-year PhD student in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. To better educate on the key components for collections to address issues of accessibility, diversity, and sustainability, Jamillah R. Gabriel will present “Standing the Test of Time: Building Resilient Collections.” Jamillah’s professional experience includes 22 years in public and academic libraries as a librarian, archivist, and library paraprofessional. Her research focuses on issues at the nexus of information and race via a critical theorist lens and interrogates how hegemonic information systems and cultural heritage institutions impact Black people and communities.

About Digital Commonwealth
Digital Commonwealth is a non-profit collaborative organization that provides resources and services to support the creation, management, and dissemination of cultural heritage materials held by Massachusetts libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives. Digital Commonwealth currently has over 200 member institutions from across the state. Digital Commonwealth’s mission is to provide access to thousands of images, documents, and sound recordings that have been digitized by member institutions so that they may be available to researchers, students, and the general public. Digital Commonwealth provides a single point of online access to digital assets hosted by Massachusetts cultural institutions. It also serves as a repository for hosting an institution’s content. Free digitization services are provided by the Boston Public Library as part of the Library for the Commonwealth program. Our member institutions include libraries, museums, historical societies, archives, research institutions, and other organizational repositories of our cultural heritage.  

Massachusetts Collections Online: digitalcommonwealth.org

Membership and Programming: digitalcommonwealth.wildapricot.org