I would agree. Libraries have a foothold in communities that other cultural institutions do not. They are seen as communities hubs and in Africa do not carry the weighty colonial (and in the case of South Africa, apartheid) legacy of collections that archives and museums do.
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Today's Topics:
- Linking with Libraries - the L in GLAM (Isla Haddow-Flood)
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:15:01 +0200 From: Isla Haddow-Flood islahf@africacentre.net To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [African Wikimedians] Linking with Libraries - the L in GLAM Message-ID: 918D7781-04CE-4BDD-8FE5-D014D81596E8@africacentre.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Dear Intrepid Wikipedians …
Hello. For me, 2015 seems to be dominated by Libraries … I have been part of the mLiteracy Think Tank recently, and then there was GLAM WIKI where Libraries featured prominently.
The importance of Libraries to us - as community activators across Africa
- has been niggling away at me. And, the outcome of the niggling is that we
should all seriously think about partnering our usergroups / chapters / fledgling communities with a local library or library service.
Hear me out.
Why?
- Many - especially the flagship ones - have a digitisation programme of
some sort. 2. They are the guardians of the very citable knowledge that we want to see about Africa and our countries on Wikipedia 3. They are busy, but are mandated to share that knowledge 4. They attract natural wikipedias - people who are hungry for knowledge - in large numbers 5. They are often looking for programmes to run with after school activities, and might have ICT support.
They should be included in our outreach strategies, and not just in our GLAM dreams.
How do we find out about them … ?
Mylee Josephs - who was at GLAM WIKI in the Netherlands in April sent me this information.
AFRICA-L Africa Section http://www.ifla.org/africa mailing list. The aim of the list is to facilitate communication with library community within the African continent. The objective of the Section amongst other things, seeks to promote and strengthen Library Associations, the Profession and Library/ Information Services in Africa; The Section seeks to create and maintain links with other Sections of International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) as well as related bodies/ organizations for the benefit of the profession and services in Africa.
Submissions: africa-l@infoserv.inist.fr <mailto:africa-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Web interface http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/africa-l Administrator: Joyce Myeza mailto:joycemyeza@gmail.com and Nthabiseng Kotsokoane mailto:nthabiseng.kotsokoane@monash.edu Note: AFRICA-L is a closed list (restricted to subscribers). Anyone interested in the goals and activities of Africa Section may apply to join.
What do you think?
warmest Isla
Isla Haddow-Flood Project Manager WikiAfrica http://www.wikiafrica.net/ at the Africa Centre < http://www.africacentre.net/%3E
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