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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 Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Formats, 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
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Experimenting toward the Digital Strategy In LC Labs we work collaboratively across the Library of Congress, and with external partners, to advance and the agency’s Digital Strategy. We do this through experimentation, engagement and research. We try approaches and explore technologies that could help us connect with users, share our resources in new ways, and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers!
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
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: Eileen J. Manchester
October's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Brian Foo reflects on the feedback from user testing he incorporated into the final design of Citizen DJ.
Posted in: At the Museum, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Guest Posts, Open Access, Open Data, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure