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Archive: June 2021 (4 Posts)

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Diving into Branch Rickey: Using a dataset of crowdsourced transcriptions as a tool for open research

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s blog post is from Abby Shelton and Lauren Seroka, two Digital Collections Specialists in the Digital Content Management Section here at the Library of Congress. Abby and Lauren discuss their work with the University of Michigan School of Information’s Ann Arbor Data Dive earlier this year. On March 27, 1956, Branch Rickey wrote of baseball …

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Library of Congress Announces New Chief of the Digital Innovation Lab

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

The Library of Congress has appointed Nicole Saylor as the new Chief of the Digital Innovation Lab, a position established to lead the Library’s innovation with digital collections and to support its digital transformation. The position, located in the Digital Strategy Directorate in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, is being created as the …