Library

HCC to participate in Douglass Day Celebration

Hagerstown Community College will hold a Douglass Day Celebration on Wednesday, February 14, from 12 to 3 p.m., in the Learning Resource Center, room 122.

Guests are invited to participate in a transcribe-a-thon, which will bring together thousands of participants at more than one hundred simultaneous events around the world. Students, teachers, and community members will help to transcribe an unprecedented collection of papers left by Frederick Douglass. These papers have been digitized and made available through collaborations with the Library of Congress and the ByThePeople platform.

The transcribing will be done on Crowd.loc.gov, a citizen science platform led by the Library of Congress, and will be available on www.douglassday.org.

Presented by the William M. Brish Library and HCC and the Washington County Free Library, this event is free and open to the public. To learn more, visit https://bit.ly/Douglass2024.

(January 11, 2024)