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Sourcerers: How to Choose a Job

By Amanda Breeden | November 10, 2025

Deciding which jobs to choose can be an exciting prospect if you enjoy spending time in archives. Here are some suggestions for key items to pay attention to when selecting a job.  Interested in more resources? Our resident beta tester…

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Tips for Sourcerers from a Beta Tester

By Amanda Breeden | November 3, 2025

đź‘‚Have you heard? We’re recruiting Sourcery Ambassadors to help us expand to new cities across the United States! Are you a current or recently graduated MLIS/MS/MA/PhD student who is passionate about archival research and digital research tools? Learn more &…

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Sourcery History: how Sourcery is reimagining remote research

By Amanda Breeden | October 27, 2025

A problem researchers often face is wanting to track down a citation or consult a distant archival collection that just may be the linchpin for their argument. But if they aren’t able to travel to the archive, what can they…

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Sourcery for the Oral Historian

By Amanda Breeden | October 20, 2025

Sourcery went on the road this past week to the Oral History Association’s Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia! While Sourcery does not currently support video or audio files to be sent or received through the app, we can still aid…

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Sourcery Tutorials

By Amanda Breeden | October 13, 2025

Need a little help getting started in Sourcery? Well, agonize no longer! In this blog post you can find tutorials on how to place a request, claim a job, and complete a job. Let’s get to it! How to place…

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Sourcery Pricing Part 2: Cost Comparisons

By Amanda Breeden | October 7, 2025

Now that we have some context for why Sourcery requests in Boston and New York cost $65 (which, if you missed it, we talked about in a previous blog post HERE), let’s take a step back and see how Sourcery’s…

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How Researchers Can Access Historical Documents Faster!

By Mohammad Edalati.T | September 28, 2025

Archival research is the foundation of historical and social inquiry. Primary sources, from government papers and organizational records to personal letters, diaries, and even train tickets, allow researchers to ask new questions, verify findings, and provide rich cultural context. However,…

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Sourcery Research Ambassador: Meet Maddie!

By Amanda Breeden | September 23, 2025

đź‘‚Have you heard? We’re recruiting 5 Sourcery Research Ambassadors to help us test new features and expand into the Washington, DC metro area! If you’re a humanities researcher and are in need of archival materials from Washington, DC-based repositories, apply…

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Join Our Team!

By Amanda Breeden | September 17, 2025

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…

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