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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, …
Posted in: Interviews
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 …
Posted in: Interviews
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 Fugate
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
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews By the People volunteer and Youngstown State University student Julie Centofanti who has gone above and beyond! Julie started a Transcribing Club at YSU in 2020 to help fellow students fulfill a service requirement, build community, and have fun. She was one of two students to win a 2022 …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts, Interviews
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Madeline Goebel, one of my colleagues who works in the Digital Content Management Section (DCM). My hope with this interview, and the others that we publish here, is to spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress in providing …
Posted in: Inside the Library, Interviews