How exciting, Conor, sounds like Wikipedia is on the minds of many. Glad you're on the
list to help elaborate :-)
Monika
Sent from my mobile phone possibly using voice control, please pardon errors
On Jul 14, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Conor M. Casey
<cmcasey(a)uw.edu
wrote:
Hi All,
My dean, Paul Constantine, asked me about whether I'd be interested in
something about this briefly but that's the last I heard of it.
I did not apply for this directly--though I'm glad it's happening--so I
have no idea about the details.
I'm guessing that since it lists labor collections, I'll be working closely
with the person, however!
Best,
Conor
Conor M. Casey
<http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/>
MA, MLIS, CA
<http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/>
Labor Archivist
Labor Archives *of* Washington, University *of* Washington Libraries
Special Collections
*http://laborarchives.org <http://laborarchives.org/>*
Mail: Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98133-2900
Allen Library South, Basement/B81D
206.685.3976 mobile 415.728.1819 fax 206.543.1931
* <http://laborarchives.org>*
<http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/>
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Monika Sengul-Jones <jones.monika(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> I'd bet that Conor Casey is the contact for this since he is the Labor
> Archivist librarian in special collections, which is the focus for the
> unpaid Visiting Scholar position at UW.
>
> Monika
>
> Sent from my mobile phone possibly using voice control, please pardon
> errors
>
>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lane, I wasn't aware that this position was planned at all. We have
>> contacts at the UW libraries and at Wiki Ed but they seem to have planned
>> this without us being in the loop. That said, I'm glad that UW and Wiki
> Ed
>> arranged for this position. Pinging Jake and Sage to see of they will let
>> us know the contact people for this position at UW and Wiki Ed, off-list
> if
>> necessary.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pine
>>> On Jul 14, 2015 7:50 AM, "Lane Rasberry"
<lane(a)bluerasberry.com
wrote:
>>>
>>> Note the UW position- do we know this contact?
>>>
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>>> Date: Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 5:28 PM
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>>> library’s
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>> *
>>> is
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>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
>>>> ,
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> Visiting
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>>> commonly
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>>> Collections and focus on labor and the working classes in the Pacific
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> and
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>>>
>>>
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