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Sourcery’s 2026 Roadmap

By Amanda Breeden | January 26, 2026

It’s the beginning of the year and we’re raring to go! We’re expanding quickly, with more cities available each month. And we have some major Sourcery developments coming in 2026. Here’s what’s in store for the next six months:  This Winter we…

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Who are Sourcerers?

By Amanda Breeden | January 19, 2026

Sourcerers are the backbone of Sourcery. They do the critical work of retrieving requested materials from all the different archives and creating reference scans. In contrast to research assistants who review and select documents while in the reading room, Sourcerers scan…

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Sourcery @ AHA: what is Sourcery and what can it do for you?

By Amanda Breeden | January 13, 2026

Greetings AHA attendees! Hear about Sourcery during your conferencing and curious about what it is and what it can do for you?   Sourcery is an archival document delivery app based out of the University of Connecticut and maintained in collaboration…

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Sourcerers: contribute to the research ecosystem

By Amanda Breeden | January 5, 2026

Let’s shine the spotlight on the key members of our Sourcery community — our Sourcerers! These archive users put their skills to work scanning materials for Researchers unable to visit the reading room in person. At the same time, they…

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Sourcerers: advance your skills

By Amanda Breeden | December 29, 2025

Sourcery is a great way for early career archivists and librarians to advance their archival skills and knowledge in a hands-on, structured environment. Because Sourcery is a job-based commitment, creating an account or even completing one job does not obligate…

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Researchers: expand your source base

By Amanda Breeden | December 22, 2025

Sourcery is a great way to consult collections in archives and libraries that are too far away to visit, or are otherwise too difficult to retrieve scans from. Consider consulting the finding aids at the New York Public Library or…

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Sourcery on the road! ✈️

By Amanda Breeden | December 15, 2025

We have big plans for 2026, and not just for the app itself. We’ll be traveling around the country to introduce Sourcery to even more Researchers and archive aficionados!  Catch us at any of the below conferences for swag and…

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Washington, D.C. and other cities open for requests!

By Amanda Breeden | December 8, 2025

Great news: Sourcery is expanding and now covers more than 20 cities across the country! Joining Boston and New York are 23 new cities and regions, including Washington, DC, Chicago, Cleveland, and Atlanta.   The Baltimore-Washington, DC area is especially…

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Researchers: streamline your research

By Amanda Breeden | December 1, 2025

For most archival researchers, it’s a familiar picture. You’ve placed requests for document scans to multiple institutions, and they all require different payments and methods of communication. Did you place that request via email? Or yet another online portal? I…

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