Needs From: Western Technical College

Help preserve history!

This group will be collaborating on a virtual project with staff from the Todd Wehr Memorial Library here on campus. The Library of Congress has digitized thousands of historical documents and has asked the public to help transcribe these images to better preserve their impact on our country’s history by making them searchable and more accessible.

For a more thorough description of the project and to prepare for working on it, please review the By the People Transcription Project guide at https://libguides.viterbo.edu/ByThePeople. We encourage anyone who signs up for this project to review the content on the guide, particularly the resources for transcribing and reading old handwriting, ahead of time to help us make a larger impact during our time together. This work makes historic information more discoverable, legible and accessible for future generations.

Examples of collections we’ll be able to transcribe at https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns-topics/ include: The Correspondence of James A. Garfield, Clara Barton: “Angel of the Battlefield,” Silent Film Music Cue Sheets, Walt Whitman, Rough Rider to Bull Moose: Letters to Theodore Roosevelt, Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents, and Sheet Music of the Musical Theater.

In person participation is capped at 20 people using the room’s desktop computers, plus 8 additional people can bring in their own laptop to participate.

*If you are bringing in your own laptop to work on or will be participating virtually, please indicate that in the notes during registration.*

Viterbo University’s Fine Arts Center seeks volunteer ushers for the upcoming season!  See everything from Broadway musicals to comedy troupes.  Performances take place throughout the school year at a variety of times.  No previous experience necessary – we will train. 

Please contact Andrew Nauman, Event Operations Coordinator at 608-796-3749 or aanauman@viterbo.edu if interested.