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- Jonathan Lawler (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) shares his experience using the Trankribus Lite software to transcribe early twentieth century handwritten letters. He writes, “Transkribus Lite can help smaller institutions with limited funding begin transcription projects of handwritten documents.”
- Andrea Howard (Grand Valley State University) reviews Archives and Human Rights, edited by Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, and Antonio González Quintana (Routledge, 2023). She writes, “One of the key takeaways…is that the right to know and the right to justice are not static rights given once in a society, but rather each successive generation must constantly construct and defend these rights.”
- Laura Semrau (Baylor University Libraries) considers Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism, edited by Tarez Sambra Graban and Wendy Hayden (Southern Illinois University Press, 2022). She writes, “Much of the book centers on the intersection between archives, rhetoric, and composition studies, but it includes community collaborations, museum studies, and other partnerships as well.”
- Hannah Pryor (University of Louisville Archives & Special Collections) evaluates NARA’s Citizen Archivist program. Pryor writes, “As an archivist, I am a proponent of crowd-sourced metadata and transcription, especially if it helps non-professionals engage with aspects of their national history.”
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