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8/14/2024: Volunteers completed the Leonard Bernstein campaign in 10 days! On July 31st, we challenged you to review the remaining transcriptions by Bernstein's birthday on August 25. And you went above and beyond to close out the campaign in record ...

We're challenging volunteers to complete the Walt Whitman campaign by the end of June! Help us review the remaining ~4,000 transcriptions.  To participate in this challenge, make sure you've registered for a free user account. Only register...

By the People will be unavailable Monday, June 3 from approximately 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET due to a planned system upgrade. This brief outage will allow us to make a necessary change in our technical infrastructure. Apologies for any inc...

By the People will be unavailable Monday, May 6 from approximately 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET due to a planned system upgrade. This brief outage will allow us to make a necessary change in our technical infrastructure. Apologies for any inconvenience!...

We are thrilled to release some big updates to two existing features today: our How-To Guide and Quick Tips. We hope these changes will better onboard new volunteers and help all transcribers as you encounter new campaigns and tricky p...

Happy Thursday everybody! And greetings from the Library  A DC-based NBC journalist is looking to interview people who are actively involved with transcribing materials on By the People. If you are local to the DMV and would be av...

A volunteer identified these sheet music pages using the Cyrillic alphabet that need transcription and review. Google translate suggests the title may be Bulgarian for "How the fox makes a noise on his face"! https://crowd.loc.gov...

Does your school or organization require volunteer hours? Did you know By the People may be able to help you fulfill those hours online? Our team has recently rolled out some new features to help volunteers track and document their time - which ...

Are you a BTP volunteer who needs to document service hours for your school or organization? We've improved existing tools and added some new ones to make tracking your contributions even easier! As a result, we're changing our policy on veri...

Starting today you'll see a new feature that we hope can help you with some typed and templated text. The "Transcribe with OCR" button under the image viewer will allow you to run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on any page to gener...

Hello intrepid transcribers! Would anyone like to try their hand at improving this French letter from the "Organizing for Women’s Suffrage: The NAWSA Records" campaign? https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/organizing-for-womens-suffrage-th...

In September, Library of Congress Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA) program interns Emily Alesia Poteat and Christopher Smothers made a call to action to volunteers seeking assistance in locating African American voice...

This week we're focusing our attention on the papers of Clara Barton, whose 201st birthday falls on December 25. From volunteering on the front lines of the Civil War as a nurse to founding the American Red Cross, Barton gave so much to the world. Th...

We’re excited to be releasing some new features to By the People today! We’ve been hard at work over the last few months on some design changes to existing pages and a brand new feature that will allow you to adjust images to aid transcri...

Announcing a November 14 Webinar—History Unfolded: Online Research SprintOur colleagues in the Library of Congress Serial and Governement Publications Division are cohosting an online research sprint with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USH...

The Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened" campaign officially completed in 2020 but we've added ~80 pages that were left out of the initial digitization process! We are reaching out to you, our engaged volunteers on History Hub, to ask ...

With the help of our colleagues in the Rare Book Division and in consultation with the Copyright Office, By the People has launched its largest campaign to date! American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages celebrates some of the earliest books p...

Are you ready for our next crowdsourced transcription campaign?Please join the Rare Book and Special Collection Division and the Copyright Office on October 7, 2021 from 3:00-4:30 ET for a lively (virtual!) discussion of early American copyright.This...

To celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth 2021, we've just released over 11,000 brand new pages for transcription into our popular "Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents" campaign. This is our 3rd (and final) release into Herencia, so jump on in ...

You may have noticed a few changes to the By the People website recently! Here's a rundown of updates we've been able to make to the site this month, including some big tweaks to the profile page!By the People runs on Concordia, the open source trans...

There are some really hidden treasures in all these letters and indecipherable cursive. I hit one today that was just SO cool to discover I have to share.  I used to write newspaper columns about this sort of thing.So I'm working on page 666 and...

This blog is by Library of Congress Manuscript Historian, Dr Julie MillerToday we're releasing a new By the People Campaign featuring handwritten receipts and interrogations of deserters--documents found in the George Washington Papers at the Library...

This blog is by Library of Congress Manuscript Historian, Dr Julie MillerJune 4, 2020The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress mostly document the life of George Washington. There’s nothing surprising about that. What is surprisin...

Hi all,To round out Poetry Month (April) we're proposing a Walt Whitman challenge! Read more about it on the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature blog.As part of this challenge we're joining with colleagues from the Learning and Innovation Offic...

Today we launched "Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents," featuring pages written in Spanish, Latin, and Catalan between 1300 and 1800. Our aim is to transcribe the documents word-for-word so that researchers can more easily discover these ...