Posts by Amanda Breeden

Help Sourcery get better and get paid doing it! We’re currently recruiting for two positions: Are you an early career archivist or librarian? A current MLS/PhD/MS/MA student or recent graduate? Or maybe just passionate about archives, libraries, and the digital humanities? Based in the Washington, DC area? Apply to be a Sourcerer beta tester! Learn…

So you’ve collected all the information for your Sourcery request, you’ve filled out the necessary fields, and you’re ready to hit “submit” and get your documents. Now it’s time to pay the bill: $65. Why $65? Well, the Sourcery Team spent the summer of 2025 running the app through its paces ahead of our September…

You may have heard there’s a new version of Sourcery available. Let’s talk about what that means for you!  If you’re a Researcher who studies material from archives, Sourcery creates an easy workflow to request scans from multiple institutions and from a distance. Sourcery helps you collect important documents for your research or explore new…

Archival research isn’t easy. Finding what you’re looking for is only half the battle; getting to it, often in a distant city or even country, is the other. Many of us have hit this wall—a crucial letter or a rare photograph that is tantalizingly out of reach. For years, we’ve wrestled with this problem, and…