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Researcher Story: Julie Centofanti

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Julie Centofanti, a biology student at Youngstown State University, started a club at her university in 2020 to transcribe historical documents included in the Library’s By the People  project. A longer version of this interview appears on the Signal blog.  How did you find out about By the People? I’m a member of the Youngstown …

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By the People: Transcribe Early Copyright Applications

Posted by: Neely Tucker

The Library’s newest crowdsourcing campaign, American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages, is now online and ready for your amusement, education and transcription. It features the great (and not so great) ideas of yesteryear in copyright applications from 1790 to 1870, which recorded the young nation’s attempts to capitalize on the present and transform the future.

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By the People: Meet the Blackwells

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Don’t let byline fool you; the wonderful staff at By the People wrote a good chunk of this piece about their latest crowdsourcing campaign. It’s fascinating stuff. The trailblazing history of the Blackwell family, tireless campaigners for the rights of women and the abolition of slavery, forms the newest crowdsourcing campaign by the Library’s By …