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Brewster was a diligent note-taker. When he died in 1919, he left behind a collection of 40,000 birds, nests, and eggs, but also thousands of pages of diaries and journals that provide valuable insights on both the birdlife of his era and, through his writing on other subjects, the times themselves. At least, they would if people could read them. “In order to look at them, you actually have to come here,” said Constance Rinaldo, a librarian at the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s <http://www.mcz.harvard.edu> Ernst Mayr Library <http://library.mcz.harvard.edu/>, where Brewster’s writings are held. “That makes them, for many people, inaccessible.” That’s where the video games come in. The library has embarked on an 18-month collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden <http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/>, Cornell University <http://www.cornell.edu>, the New York Botanical Garden <http://www.nybg.org/>, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library <http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/> on a project to use crowdsourcing to transcribe Brewster’s journals into a searchable digital format, and to create video games for the more-exacting task of checking those transcriptions for accuracy. http://bit.ly/1v46PxD http://bit.ly/1v46PxD+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org "The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations." Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978. To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]