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Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
We are happy to share this interview with Margaret Gentry. Margaret is serving as a Presidential Management Fellow with the Digital Strategy Directorate. In this interview, we learn a bit about Margaret’s interests and work with us at the Library. Welcome! We’re so excited you’ve joined the Digital Strategy Directorate as a Presidential Management Fellow. …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
We are happy to share this interview with Merci Silva-Acosta. Merci is serving as a Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) intern with the Digital Strategy Directorate in the summer of 2023. In this interview, we learn a bit about Merci’s interests and work with us at the Library. Hi Merci! It’s great to …
Posted in: digital humanities, Interviews
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Carly Boerrigter, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope with these interviews is to share out more about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support digital services of the Library of Congress. Along with that, …
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Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Lauren Algee, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope that interviews like this help to spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress. Along with that, I think it’s …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s blog post is an interview between Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz and Amaobi Otiji, both of the Digital Content Management Section (DCM) here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with DCM staff here. Andrew: Could you tell us a bit about what you do as a Digital Collections Technician in DCM? What do …
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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
An interview with two people who have worked extensively with LC APIs: Laura Wrubel, currently a digital library software developer at Stanford Libraries, and Patrick Rourke, software engineer at the Library of Congress who led the recent loc.gov/apis update.
Posted in: API, Computational Research, Digital Content, Interviews
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. Rick Fitzgerald contributed to the Library’s web archiving program for over fifteen years as a cataloger and metadata expert. He recently moved on to a new position in Collections Management Division, as a Cataloging Specialist/Problem …
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, By the People community manager Abby Shelton interviews two By the People volunteers, Tina and Alexandra, who paired up to transcribe Federal Theatre Project playbills! Tina was a student at the Emma Willard School in 2022 and already a By the People volunteer when she recruited her math teacher, Alexandra, to help transcribe …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Claude, who has gone above and beyond! 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. You can read our other Volunteer Vignettes on the Signal here and here. Abby: What motivates you to …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews