I thought I would share what came up on the cultural-partners list recently (if you are not a member and would be interested in joining, check out http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Contact).

Recently the George Washington University Library had one of their student interns reference Wikipedia with their authoritative biographical information from collections records (See below for some examples) and found that they were very successful at increasing their web traffic to the University library resource pages. Now I know that Education oriented outreach is generally focused on bringing in students and their instructors, but wouldn't work-shopping librarians to take advantage of their own resources like we have been doing with GLAMs, and then using that built up relationship to get access to their network of media literacy types be a  useful approach for non-University members wishing to do outreach on campuses? I think this might be a useful type of outreach event to make Campus Ambassadors aware of, especially those not attached to Professors. As I found last semester at JMU, the libraries always have a list of people who are interested in new approaches to sharing their information.

I thought

Alex Stinson

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From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [cultural-partners] GWU
To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch>


Hi everyone,

Here is the cut and paste email from Athena, the student I've been talking to, and what work she's done, if you'd like to take a look!

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1) Presidential Inaugural Medals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Inaugural_Medals
*I actually wrote this one and provided the images
 
2) American Veterans Committee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Veterans_Committee
*Added information from the collection, as well as linked the article to our Finding Aid in a hope to encourage research.
 
3) Clifford K. Berryman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_K._Berryman
*Added some additional information to the article, did some re-arranging to the format, and linked it to our Digital Collections.

4) William Staughton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Staughton
*Wrote 95% of content, added image, and linked to our online collection and Finding Aid.
 
5) Gargoyle Magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle_Magazine
*Added some additional information and referenced our Finding Aid.  I spent a good bit of time editing the article (it was in poor condition!) and rearranging the information to make it flow better.
 
If you would like to see more examples, please let me know.  I just randomly selected a wide variety of topics to illustrate our efforts.  If you would like to take a closer look at our collections, please feel free to browse our web site: http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC/research-tools.  We have large collections on George Washington University, as well as Washingtonia.
 
Best,
Athena



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Sarah Stierch Consulting
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