Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Final week of review month

By the People Bulletin

Focus areas for the week! 

It's the final week of review month! We've been blown away by your efforts to bring so many projects and a few campaigns closer to completion. This week, we're returning to the focus areas for the month to see if we can finish up any of these projects. 

• In the first two weeks, you helped us complete 600+ pages from the National Women Suffrage Organization papers. Help us review the remaining ~2,300 pages in the H-P series! And the ~1,900 pages left in the General Correspondence: Q-Z project! 
• You reviewed 500+ pages and completed an entire series from Kitty Barry Blackwell's papers! Let's close out her family series, and general correspondence! 
• Fewer than 50 pages left in the first series of the Theodore Roosevelt papers! Volunteers reviewed 1,300+ pages from this series in August. 
• Last week, you completed 300 pages from Clara Barton General Correspondence. Help us finish up the rest in preparation for Clara's 200th birthday in December! 
• Review the remaining pages in the Lucy Stone papers! Last week, you focused on the following series and completed hundreds of pages:  
  
  • Biographical Papers
  • General Correspondence
  • Family Correspondence
  • Miscellany

Review month updates

Last week, you completed review on 3,360 pages for By the People. That brings this month's total to 9,453 pages–and there's still a week left! We can't express our thanks enough for all of your efforts this month, and every month, to engage with the Library's collections and enhance access for all. 

We had a wonderful joint Office Hours on August 20th with our colleagues at the Smithsonian Transcription Center and most importantly, By the People and Smithsonian volunteers! Volunteers shared tips and lessons learned, fun stories from the collections, and their excitement for history and transcription. We heard lots of great ideas for how to improve our program and will be thinking about how to implement some of these ideas in the months to come. Thank you for joining us last week! 

 

All the Best,

Abby & the By the People team