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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
November's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Guest Posts, Interviews, Open Data, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, Sam Schireson interviews a By the People volunteer 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 searchable and discoverable on loc.gov. In this interview we hear from Henry in Virginia who has been …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Posted by: Trevor Owens
Meghan Lyon recently joined the Web Archiving Team in the Digital Content Management section as a Librarian in Residence. In support of developing the next generation of librarians and information professionals, the Librarians-in-Residence program (LIR) gives early-career librarians the opportunity to gain meaningful work experience at the Library of Congress. In light of the COVID-19 …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Trevor Owens
Every year the Library of Congress brings on a cohort of junior fellows to help expand access and use of collections. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic this program shifted to be entirely virtual in 2020. We are thrilled to have Randi Proescholdt, a graduate student from the University of Illinois’ School of Information Science, …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m thrilled to share that Mark Lopez has joined the Digital Content Management section as a new Digital Collections Specialist. To that end, I’m also excited to share this interview as part of our occasional series where we learn more about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest blog post is from Gina Jones and Abbie Grotke, both of the Web Archiving Team. As a part of our series looking back at some of the people and stories around our 20th Anniversary of Web Archiving, I wanted to share with you an interview with a person who has been working on …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Interviews, Web Archiving
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
This guest post is an interview with Lisa Massengale, Head of the Science Reference Section, with contributions by the Web Archive’s creator Jennifer Harbster, a Science Reference and Research Specialist for the Science, Technology and Business Division from Oct. 2001- Dec. 2015. Along with her reference duties for the Library’s Science Reference Service, she created …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Interviews, Web Archiving