The By the People Transcribe-a-Thon is a Library of Congress program that invites the public to serve as virtual volunteers, transcribing and tagging digital collections to make them more findable and useable.
The program is open to everyone. In-person Transcribe-a-thon events, held at libraries around the country, provide opportunity and support for participants to test out the virtual volunteering technology and tasks, build digital and historical literacies, and forge relationships between the Library of Congress and their community's own history.
D.C. Public brought people together to transcribe Library of Congress archival materials, and so can you.