Happy #ArborDay and happy birthday Frederick Law Olmsted!🎂 We're celebrating the famed landscape architect with 14k new pages of volunteer transcriptions of his project files now available on loc.gov to enhance search and access: loc.gov/collections/fr…

This month alone we've added over 100k transcriptions to loc.gov! These newly published pages enhance search and access for the papers of President Theodore Roosevelt, suffragist Anna E. Dickinson, and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Happy volunteer appreciation week to every By the People transcriber and reviewer--whether you've contributed to one page or 1,000. Your care and knowledge make amazing Library of Congress collections, and expertise, and services even better! 🫶💐

In our latest blog post, learn how your ability to read cursive and a little extra time can match up with volunteer opportunities at the Library of Congress -LOC Crowdsourcing blogs.uww.edu/nonprofit/2024…

Curious about By the People transcription datasets? We've got a new Jupyter Notebook tutorial to walk you through creating a Python-based visualization of women's suffrage data step-by-step: blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024…

We've made some changes! We hope these updates to By the People will help new and seasoned volunteers encountering new collections and tricky pages. Read about our improved How-To Guide and Quick Tips then try them out: historyhub.history.gov/crowd-loc/b/cr…

'Miss Clara Barton, I am studying about you in my History, and what you did in the war, and I thought I would write and ask you what you did afore you did that.' Letters from kids (like this gem) inspired Clara Barton' memoir The Story of My Childhood!

It's the last week of our #TranscribeClara Challenge for #WomensHistoryMonth - this month volunteers started 1,000+ pages from the Clara Barton Papers and moved another 1,000 to complete to honor her life and legacy. Join us to transcribe & review here: crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/clar…

Just outside Library of Congress transcription headquarters! Happy Spring everyone! 🌸

We've added 56,000+ pages of volunteer transcriptions for the The Blackwell Family Papers to loc.gov. Look for more women's suffrage pages to come as we work to make the history of the fight to vote more accessible at the @LibraryCongress! loc.gov/collections/bl…

This Oscar Sunday, great piece on the @TodayShow about the Library of Congress By The People transcribing campaign of the papers of legendary “Mestro” Leonard Bernstein.

#Oscar #Oscar s2024

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This #WomensHistoryMonth we challenge you to review transcriptions of the Clara Barton Papers. Learn about the life of this incredible woman - from Angel of the Battlefield to founder of the American Red Cross - and make her legacy more accessible to all! crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/clar…

.TODAY Sunday featured our amazing volunteers Henry M. Rosenberg and Sabrina Evans' Howard University class! Transcriptions enhance aid accessibility and discovery for Library of Congress digital collections. Join in at crowd.loc.gov today.com/video/voluntee…

And we'll be there, too! We'll have transcription stations set up on Saturday 3/9 for you to celebrate Women's History Month by transcribing and reviewing materials in our Clara Barton project! #TranscribeClara

Register & more info here -> loc.gov/item/event-411…

Rowan University students took part in the Douglass Day's 'transcribe-a-thon' this week to make abolitionist Frederick Douglass' letters, notes and other papers searchable and more accessible.

It all happened on the day Douglass chose as his birthday.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/n…

Unbelievable progress on the Frederick Douglass letters launched for #DouglassDay ! In 2 days volunteers started transcription on 8,200 pages of which 1,400 are complete. We still need help with review! 5,000+ pages could use your eyes -- jump in: crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/trul…

Good morning to all the Douglass Day classes and groups joining in today!

We got an incredible amount done yesterday, but there's plenty left for all of us to transcribe & review! #DouglassDay

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A full house of transcribers! We'll be at it until 2:00 pm! Feel free to stop by the Clark Instructional Classroom (CIC) in Watson Library to join in the celebration! 💕📜 #DouglassDay

Tons of transcribing happening Swarthmore College Libraries 📚 during our #DouglassDay celebration Douglass Day

The Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon is happening NOW! Join us. douglassday.org