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Collected Item: “Printing To Go”

Give your story a title.

Printing To Go

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Social media post

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Twitter post from the Boston Public Library that highlights a new, socially distanced printing service that they are offering to the community. Social distancing and new cleaning requirements have limited people's abilities to access printers if they do not own one themselves. This object emphasizes how libraries and other cultural heritage institutions are altering their services to fit the current moment.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#GREATERBOSTON, #BostonPublicLibrary, #BPL, #socialdistancing,

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200714131222/https://twitter.com/BPLBoston/status/1280871956263383040/photo/1

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Boston Public Library

Give this story a date.

2020-07-08
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