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With more content and research moving online, the Library seeks to make digital documents as accessible as possible by crowdsourcing their transcription. Volunteers will transcribe handwritten pages and historical newspapers by reading the text and typing it into digital form. Join us for a virtual volunteer session to learn how you can help make historical documents more searchable and usable for researchers now and in the future.

Each virtual session will include an introduction to the Library, historical background about a collection, and a website demonstration to help volunteers get started. This transcribe-a-thon will focus on OCR text correction of Early American newspapers in Virginia Chronicle. Volunteers will work independently for the remaining time and are encouraged to ask questions. Each event will conclude with a brief discussion. Information about joining through Zoom will be emailed the week of the event.

Contact Sonya Coleman for more information at makinghistory@virginiamemory.com or call Community Foundation Engage at 804-330-7400.

This is a free event. Registration required