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Celebrating Six Years of By the People

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Another incredible year made possible by volunteers  Happy New Year to all our Signal blog readers and to all our By the People crowdsourced transcription program volunteers! Every year, the By the People team publishes a “happy birthday to us” blog post right here on the Signal (you can check out previous years’ editions here …

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What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: 2024 Wrap-Up!

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Happy 2025 to all of our Signal subscribers! In this special edition of “What’s New Online at the Library of Congress,” we’re looking back on some of our new digital collections releases in 2024. Do you have a favorite digital collection or item at the Library? Leave us a comment below and stay tuned for …

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Beta Release of Library of Congress Web Archives Playback Services

Posted by: Tracee Haupt

This guest post was authored by Abbie Grotke, Head of the Web Archiving Section. As described in our prior blog post, we have been in the process of modernizing and making improvements to the Library of Congress Web Archives to improve functionality for users. While this work has taken us a bit longer than anticipated, we are pleased to announce the …

TRANSCRIPT: Some time since a tenant of her for 3 years- was relating something she had told him- when I said and you knew she was lying when she said it= "yes-" and you believed her.= "yes"= - - why? "Why? because I couldn't believe any body could lie so- - That's "Mabelle"- Now S.E.B. - sent me please those 7 pages- indicate by marking any part or parts you might not want used and will copy, omitting same- on old blank note book paper which I used at that time, of which I have sufficient supply and it will be my privilege, not to say how I obtained the same-- which I would have had she not taken possession of same to destroy my evidence against her Lies- her treachery- her slandering of the name of Clara Barton in ways unbelievable and which I would not repeat on paper-

Volunteer Vignette: History is a Living Thing

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Justin Kern, who serves as the Division Communications Director for the American Red Cross. By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more accessible and discoverable on loc.gov.  Abby: How did you hear about By …

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What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: December 2024

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite highlights. …

“Can We Capture This?”: An Interview on Website Archivability

Posted by: Tracee Haupt

Earlier this year, the Library of Congress and our web harvest vendor MirrorWeb presented research on website archivability at the 2024 Web Archiving Conference at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The presentation was part of a panel called “Can we capture this?’: Assessing Website Archivability Beyond Trial and Error,” which was moderated by Martin Klein (Pacific …

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New U.S. Elections Web Archive Data Resources Available

Posted by: Tracee Haupt

This blog post was guest-authored by Rachel Trent, Senior Digital Collections Data Librarian. For nearly twenty-five years, the Library of Congress has been archiving campaign websites for Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Back in 2022, we released a dataset of index files for the United States Elections Web Archive, and we are happy to announce …