Rural Diary Archive Website Launch & Transcribe-A-Thon

Dr. Catharine Wilson heads up a team including undergraduate students Sarah Kelly and Lisa Tubb, graduate students Jodey Nurse and Jacqui McIsaac, along with Adam Doan and others from McLaughlin Library, building a new website that engages the public in online transcribing of old diaries. Sponsored by the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History, the site currently showcases over 130 diarists from across Ontario (1800-1960) with over twenty full-text diaries available for people to read, search and transcribe.

Join us on Thursday, September 24, 2015 for the official launch of the Rural Diary Archive Website and a Transcribe-A-Thon!

The event will take place on the first floor of the University of Guelph’s McLaughlin Library in the Academic Town Square from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM. There will be diaries on display and a draw for prizes! Bring your laptop and make your mark on history by helping to transcribe these digital diaries into searchable text. Come learn more about local rural history and the diarists who helped document it.

Please RSVP to ruraldiaryarchive@gmail.com or call 519-824-4120 x53888 by September 15th, 2015.

get the eVite .pdf