Very exciting! Good luck with it and do keep us
posted.
Cheers,
Shani.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm(a)oclc.org>
wrote:
Hello colleagues,
As you may have heard, we were fortunate to receive funding from The John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation to develop and run a program for
librarians in order to equip them to embrace, edit, and interact on
Wikipedia with a goal of getting them to the point where they can lead
programs at their home institutions, engaging their communities. We are
thinking big and aspire to have 500 librarians trained in our program. We
will do this by developing content for a virtual online cohort that will
learn together in real time. We are really excited about the possibilities
of bringing the Wikimedia community close to librarians – two communities
that are passionate about providing access to information and knowledge.
(I wrote about the grant here
http://www.oclc.org/blog/main/lets-open-library-doors-to-wikipedia/ )
Unfortunately, we were only funded for 57% of the requested amount. We
are making an additional request to WMF to fund the Wikipedian-In-Residence
that will be a key part of this program. We think that because of the
potential that we have for reaching librarians, and supporting them at
scale that this is an exciting program and one that may be a good model for
other types of allied communities, and definitely for librarians in other
geographies. I am particularly excited about the prospect of developing
librarians to the point of being able to empower the diverse committees
they serve.
We hope you’ll take a look at our proposal, give us feedback, and
hopefully lend your support.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/A_Wikipedian-in-Residence_to…
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
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