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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs' monthly newsletter for October 2021.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Digital Content, digital humanities, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
September newsletter from LC Labs, highlighting opportunities with the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative.
Posted in: Digital Content, digital scholarship, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Caitlin Haynes, the Program Coordinator for the Smithsonian Transcription Center in Washington, D.C. You can read Caitlin’s original post from the Smithsonian here.* During the month of August 2021, we teamed up with the community managers and volunteers at By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourced transcription program, to focus …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Guest Posts, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team for August.
Posted in: Computational Research, Content Matters Interview, Data Librarianship, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Formats, Innovator in Residence, Inside the Library, Interviews, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, By the People community manager Lauren Algee interviews members of the Douglass Day team about their February 2021 transcribe-a-thon for the Mary Church Terrell Papers. Launched in 2018, By the People is a volunteer engagement and collection enhancement program at the Library of Congress that invites the public to explore and transcribe Library of Congress digital …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Interviews, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s blog post is from Abby Shelton and Lauren Seroka, two Digital Collections Specialists in the Digital Content Management Section here at the Library of Congress. Abby and Lauren discuss their work with the University of Michigan School of Information’s Ann Arbor Data Dive earlier this year. On March 27, 1956, Branch Rickey wrote of baseball …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts, Open Data, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for April 2021.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration