Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon!: Athenaeum, Feb. 14

Please join us for an exciting event!

Athenaeum is participating in a national, synchronous celebration of Frederick Douglass’ birthday featuring a document transcribe-a-thon of the Freedmen’s Bureau Papers in collaboration with National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Transcription Center, and Colored Conventions Project. An event flyer is attached here.

Local details:

Wednesday, February 14

11:30am-2:30pm

Athenaeum Classroom (Newman 124)

Spillover locations: Athenaeum Collaboration Room (Newman 126) & Torgerson 3310 Classroom.

National event details: http://coloredconventions.org/hbd

Smithsonian transcription tool tutorial: https://transcription.si.edu/instructions

Freedmen’s Bureau Papers transcription page: https://transcription.si.edu/browse?filter=owner:16

National event Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ColoredConventionsProject/

Event tags: #DouglassDay, #FreedmensBureau

Event Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/12168735460/playlist/1uoCvc5Pv5NxZGyaPdNhgq

National event planners have encouraged participants to visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center web site to register, view tutorials, and familiarize themselves with the tools ahead of the Douglass Day event.

In order to provide additional support for the event, our FlowGround time on Monday, February 12, 11:30am-1:00pm will be dedicated to STC transcription orientation.

Please do feel free to forward any questions, share the event as broadly as possible, and I hope you’ll join us for this terrific opportunity.