Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon & Lunch 2/14

Douglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass. Each year, libraries plan events and people gather to help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history.

For this year’s Douglass Day celebration, to be held on Friday, February 14^th from 12PM to 3PM in the CAS Innovation Lab at the DiMenna-Nyselius Library, we will work with the Library of Congress in a crowdsourcing transcription project featuring materials from the African American Perspectives Collection. We will also have food, music, and a fun time! Stay the whole time OR drop-in. Please bring your own laptop or device.

Register here: https://libcal.fairfield.edu/event/13515836

What is a transcribe-a-thon?

Our main activity will be transcribing the words in all sorts of documents (from letters and diaries to certificates and postcards). Don’t feel comfortable reading old handwriting? You can also work in pairs! There are also many typewritten documents that are easier to read. And we have lots of tutorials, guides, and more to share.

This event is organized by the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and co-sponsored by the History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Questions? Contact Jennifer Mottolese at jmottolese@fairfield.edu