Carlyn Osborn is a Librarian (Digital Collections Specialist) in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress and a Community Manager for the By the People program. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (2014) and from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies with a M.L.I.S., specializing in Archives and Digital Curation (2017). Carlyn has been involved with museums, libraries, and special collections since 2010 and is interested in the history of science, crowdsourced cultural heritage, and digital engagement. Prior to joining the Digital Content Management Section and the By the People Team, Carlyn worked in the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress, where she founded the blog Worlds Revealed in 2015.
Most Recent Posts
- Volunteer Vignette: Transcribe without fear, don’t be intimidated! October 1st, 2020
- Connect with The Signal at the 2020 National Book Festival September 24th, 2020
- How to Write a FDD in 149 Easy Steps: Learning to Evaluate Digital File Formats September 17th, 2020
- Celebrating another year with By the People September 14th, 2020
- Finding By the People Transcriptions in the Library’s Digital Collections July 9th, 2020
- Making a valuable resource even better: the Recommended Formats Statement and RFS 2.0 June 11th, 2020
- Gina Jones and 20 Years of Web Archiving at the Library of Congress April 15th, 2020
- Happy Birthday to LCWA! Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Web Archiving at the Library of Congress. April 2nd, 2020
- PDF is Here to Stay: Archiving with the Portable Document Format March 10th, 2020
- In a Web Archives Frame of Mind: Improving Access and Describing the Collections December 12th, 2019