
Panel V : “Value Beyond Labor: Datafication and Crowdsourcing Volunteers”
Library of Congress , USA
Abby Shelton is a Digital Collections Specialist at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. She serves as a Community Manager for the By the People program at the Library, working with a team to manage the virtual volunteers, collections data, and applications that make crowdsourced transcription work. Abby has an MSLIS from Drexel University and an MA in women’s history from SUNY Binghamton. In previous roles, she has worked at the intersection of collections and technology in both library and museum settings.