[Marcus] Gould’s banner — and 1,601 other artifacts from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence — was saved. More than two years after he attached it to the fence, it was scanned, archived and published Friday in an online collection on Dig DC, the D.C. Public Library’s online archive.

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The collection is a partnership between the D.C. Public Library, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Library of Congress, and Howard University. Aliza Leventhal, an archivist with the Library of Congress, also helped Seiler and Irwin with the collection.

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In cataloguing the collection, the D.C. Public Library enlisted the public’s help in two events called the “Black Lives Matter Describe-A-Thon,” during which anyone who was interested could help describe pieces of artwork before they were added to the online archive. Eleven D.C. Public Library librarians, one University of Maryland student and 35 members of the public worked on the descriptions, [Laura] Farley [a digital curation librarian at the D.C. Public Library] said.

“It’s great having people describing in their own language what they’re seeing and how they have an opportunity to connect with it and to really contribute to a piece of history,” she said.