A diverse community of practitioners engaged in making source materials accessible and discoverable.

About eLabs
Who is eLabs for?
Try starting with our Beginner’s Guide

At a Glance

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Analyzing Your Audience

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Selecting Documents

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A Discussion on the Considerations of Digitization

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Why Annotate?

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Why Edit?

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Our Principles

eLabs supports a diverse representation of practitioner backgrounds, attributes, and identities, as well as a diversity of approaches, ideas, and goals in the practices of editing and recovery.

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Courses

Browse our free online courses. All courses are at your own pace, and you can enroll in any course at any time.

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Is there a specific course you are looking for that you don’t see included in our offerings? Request it!

Request a Topic

Is there a specific topic you would like to see included in our Project Guide? Or is there a specific topic you would like to see more content for across all of eLabs? Request it!

Propose a Course

Is there a tool, topic, or practice that you want to teach about in a course? Or is there a course that you’ve already taught that you would like to teach again? Propose it!

Suggest a Resource

Is there a grant, educational opportunity, related community or glossary term that you recommend we add to our resources? Or is there a resource we’re missing altogether? Suggest it!

Recommend a Guide

Is there someone you’ve taken a course or workshop with in the past who you would like to see teach again? Is there someone you know who has a lot to share about a specific tool, topic, or practice? Recommend them as a course guide!

Profile Creation

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Community

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Code of Conduct

Learn more about the behaviors and language we do not condone, and read about our policies for instituting this code of conduct.

Events

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Forum

Discuss tools, methods of practice, and other topics in our community forum.

How are we doing?

Share feedback on how we could improve this space. Tell us about content gaps, offensive language or behavior, technical issues, or anything else that’s preventing eLabs from supporting you and your practice.

Project Guide

Explore the topics in our Project Guide and find all the resources—like courses, events, and more—related to each topic.

Courses

Browse our free online courses. All courses are at your own pace, and you can enroll in any course at any time.

Resources

Explore our resources to find information about grants, educational opportunities, related communities and key terms that are connected to the practices of editing and recovery.

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