Event Lectures and Symposia Volunteer Close-Up with History: Explore, Transcribe and Learn

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, August 24, 2024

    5:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT

  • Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - Hall DE (Level 2, North Building)

    801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

By the People invites the public to help transcribe digitized Library of Congress collections online at crowd.loc.gov. Since 2018, virtual volunteers have completed over 800,000 transcriptions. These improve search, accessibility and discovery for the papers of Theodore Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Walt Whitman and more. Learn how transcribers impact research at the Library of Congress — and how you can get involved!

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