If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you (lithub.com)

The Newberry Library in Chicago is recruiting volunteer transcribers to decipher handwritten materials in its collections, as part of an ongoing project that began with Civil War letters in 2013. The effort has expanded across the archive, but fewer volunteers are available as cursive is dropped from Common Core and digitization work continues to grow. The article highlights the breadth of what’s at stake—from correspondence of major Chicago writers to firsthand accounts of major events—urging readers to join the Newberry’s “Transcribe” program.