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    Happy Birthday Rosa Parks!Today we start a crowdsourcing campaign to transcribe her papers. Inviting, including and honoring the contributions of people from every walk of life is such a fitting way to honor this civil rights icon.

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  2. Happy birthday, Rosa Parks! BIG announcement: We’re celebrating with a new campaign inviting you to transcribe Parks in her own words! Join in to help make her writings and documents of her life & activism searchable and accessible to all:

    Photo of Rosa Parks, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, circa 1950 - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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  4. Vols threw Alan Lomax a fabulous birthday party Friday -- hitting our 3,000 completed pages challenge goal & then some! ICYMI, here's a special thank you playlist of Lomax recordings related to the current campaign, made by our friends at !

    Screenshot of Alan Lomax transcription stats, showing that 3,127 pages have been completed
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    31. sij

    Today's the last day to apply to join our Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud project! Come on board as an Innovation Specialist (GS-12). You'll - translate research requests - build data sets - document collection readiness + workflows ... & more

    close up of line drawings from field notes.
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  6. We're gaining on our 3000 completed pages challenge for the Alan Lomax Campaign. To keep you company while you review our friends and LOC American Folklife Center made a playlist of artists Lomax recorded: . Enjoy!🎧💻

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  7. Hello ! We're so close to meeting our 105th birthday challenge of completing 3000 pages TODAY! Can you help us get over the line? Just 74 pages to go! So many amazing folk performers representing many US and Caribbean regions.

    A young Alan Lomax playing acoustic guitar. Black and white image. It's a candid shot. He's in mid strum and mid song.
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  9. Want to maximize how you help By the People? Look out for documents that are almost complete and finish reviewing the last few pages. This will allow us to bring those documents back to main website much faster! Use the filters to choose

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    30. sij

    2020 Innovator in Residence is using computer vision and NLP to extract images and news topics from historic newspaper collections

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  11. In 1961 folk artist Bessie Jones traveled from St Simon's Island, GA to NYC to have Alan Lomax and his wife Antoinette Marchand record her biography and repertoire. 1840 pages need review. Help make her work discoverable: Nice typed pages!

    A typed page with some annotations.
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    Today in History: President James Madison approves bill approving the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library for use by Congress, 1815

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  13. Wow, you all are turning up the heat on our Challenge! We're at 2826 completed pages out of 3000! Can you smash 3000 by Friday, January 31st? Here's something seasonal featuring cold weather and to get you ready for

    A page from the Alan Lomax papers recorded in Michigan/Wisconsin/Illinois.
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    29. sij

    SAVE THE DATE! Connecting Collections as Data is May 4-6, 2020 . Registration opens February. Day 1: Digital Transformation workshop. Day 2: Plenary. Day 3: Full and half-day hands-on work sessions. Event details:

    Tower Bridge London
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  15. Here's an interesting page from the Alan Lomax papers in need of review! It's essentially a contents list that gives you a good idea of what's in the notebook. "Storm at Tupelo" and more. Help us meet our January challenge of completing 3000 pages!

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  16. Uhoh, do you think we'll meet our goal of 3000 completed pages in the Alan Lomax campaign by Jan 31st? 335 pp left 😬Help celebrate his 105th birthday by making his folk music interviews and notes accessible to patrons and researchers now and in the future

    A letter from the American Folk Festival organization.
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  17. We're still at the LC booth today and Monday morning too so come through! Amazing conference so far getting to meet and learn from volunteers and transcribe-a-thon hosts at libraries all across the country who have stopped to say hello. 💖

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  18. Loving this digital history student's write up! "I did it! I transcribed a part of the collection, and it was a very engaging piece of text that may make some want to try their hand and the next page…and the next…and the next." Glad we got you hooked, Luke!

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  19. Are you a librarian headed to ? Swing by the exhibitor booth to pick up By the People swag and chat with community manager Lauren! We'd love to hear how you're using BTP, answer questions about transcribe-a-thons, or just say hi! 👋

    Photograph of By the People postcards promoting Library of Congress crowdsourcing of Rosa Parks, Alan Lomax, and women's suffrage collections
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  20. Ok sleuths, here are the suffragist handwriting puzzle answers: 1. Anthony, 2. Barton, 3. Stanton, 4. Terrell -- how many did you get right? Ready to put those cursive-reading skills to work & transcribe suffrage history? 💪

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