Newberry Transcribe lets you contribute to historical scholarship while learning about the everyday lives of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in the 19th and early 20th centuries. By transcribing handwritten letters, diaries and other materials from the Newberry's Modern Manuscript Collections, you're helping to preserve these voices from the past, making their stories easier to find, search and read.
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The Schaumburg Township District Library serves in excess of 134,000 residents in portions of the municipalities Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Streamwood. With over 1 million visitors each year, the library circulates over 2,000,000 items annually and is the second largest public library in the state of Illinois.