By the People: Library of Congress

By the People invites you to transcribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the Library’s collections. Everyone is welcome to take part! Volunteer-created transcriptions improve search, readability, and access to handwritten and typed documents for everyone, including people who are not fully sighted.

All transcriptions are made and reviewed by volunteers before they are returned to loc.gov, the Library's website. You don't even need to create an account to transcribe, but registered users can also tag and review other people's transcriptions. Learn how to start contributing in our Welcome Guide.

The volunteer will need to create an account and show documentation via email of the project they completed, with exact dates, times, and screenshots of the work completed, and a reflection of what they have achieved. The volunteer will need to log their impacts in GivePulse with a reflection of the activities and screenshots to verify their participation.