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RSS Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress – Recent Updates

  • New Lincoln pages and your transcriptions on loc.gov January 18, 2019
    Hello! We've published the first batch of By the People transcriptions! That's right, your work is already searchable in the Library of Congress website. Less than three months after the launch of By the People, we have published 781 transcribed pages. There are actually several thousand other completed pages, but we started with this test batch. Browse […]
  • We're open! January 4, 2019
    Happy 2019, one and all! We hope you had a restful and joyful turn of the year, and are ready to put your know-how to work on transcribing and reviewing documents on By the People. We're happy to say we've started adding your reviewed transcriptions back into the Library's website, and will send another email in […]
  • Still Time for Last-Minute Giving December 31, 2018
    The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift supports FREE exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around the world with our […]
  • Make a Year-End Gift to the Nation's Library December 26, 2018
    The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift can: Inspire curiosity in children to read more books and reflect on the power of books to change their lives Ignite thoughtful […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: 'Tis the season December 20, 2018
    ...for your incredible contributions to By the People (crowd.loc.gov)! In less than 2 months over 3,000 volunteers started work on over 20,600 transcriptions, including many two-page spreads. Of these 3,231 are fully transcribed and reviewed, and 15,978 await review. We are testing the process for bringing completed transcriptions to loc.gov, where they'll be searchable alongside the original images to […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: A Full Fall December 11, 2018
    November was our first full month of transcribing, reviewing, and tagging, and a busy one at that!  By The People On November 19, we celebrated the 155th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address with our first transcribe-a-thon! Classes from around the country joined us online and in-person to contribute to the Letters to Lincoln Challenge.  The […]
  • Make Your Gift to the Nation's Library November 27, 2018
    The day has arrived—#GivingTuesday—a day when your gift makes a difference and a statement. The Library of Congress depends on donations from people like you to produce exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around the world with our unique collections, experts, and services. Gifts bring the Library […]
  • Spark a Lifelong Adventure of Learning November 20, 2018
    This year is the second year the Library of Congress is participating in #GivingTuesday—a global giving movement. On Tuesday, November 27, we are asking you to make a gift to spark a lifelong adventure of learning. Your gift supports FREE exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: A Lincoln Anniversary Transcribe-A-Thon November 9, 2018
    Save the date to join us in-person or online Monday, November 19! The Library of Congress will mark the 155th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address with a one-day celebration, featuring a pop-up exhibit of the earliest known draft of the speech, and a Letters to Lincoln transcribe-a-thon for volunteers on and offsite.  […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Make it meaningful this Veteran's Day! November 7, 2018
    A Veteran's Day Challenge This Veterans' Day, remember or honor a veteran in your life by volunteering to improve access and search for historic accounts of veterans who served and sacrificed. Give back by transcribing our "Disabled But Not Forgotten" project, the papers of advocate for disabled Civil War veterans William Oland Bourne (1819-1901). Bourne’s left-hand penmanship competitions […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Election Night with Letters to Lincoln November 6, 2018
    Looking for a positive political endeavor this Election Night? Cast your vote for the Letters to Lincoln Election challenge! Our goal is transcription of all 646 pages of the "1858-1859 Presidential Nomination" Abraham Lincoln Papers project at crowd.loc.gov tonight -- Tuesday, November 6th! With 8 hours to go, 400+ pages remain open for editing!  Can we […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Stumping for Lincoln November 2, 2018
    We’re launching our next Letters to Lincoln milestone in honor of Election Day! Our first milestone was transcribing the first three Campaign projects by November 1, covering the years 1830-1857. We’ve nearly reached that goal! So our next challenge to you is transcribing and reviewing all 646 pages in the "1858-1859 Presidential Nomination" project by […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: One week in, one day more October 31, 2018
    Thank you for your hard work transcribing, tagging, and exploring the stories of the Civil War era, a baseball great, and activists for women's and African Americans' rights. We're just one week on from the launch of crowd.loc.gov, but you've accomplished a lot!  651 pages completed 2,739 pages submitted for review We challenged you to complete […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Join The crowd! October 24, 2018
    Welcome to a new way to volunteer with the Library of Congress! Join us to explore, transcribe, and tag Library of Congress digital collections to make documents accessible to all. Up For A Challenge Unsure where to start? Join our Letters to Lincoln Challenge which aims to transcribe 10,000+ letters and other documents of the […]
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