Hi GLAM-Wiki Folks,
With the cooperation of IFLA, we have been working on white papers. We have
prepared the below email to forward to library communities in your context
to solicit feedback on the draft white papers. Please share with your
partners and community coordinators.
Also if you are on social media, we would welcome sharing of the following:
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/777923564150325248
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FWikimedia%2Fstatus…>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/engaging-libraries-wikipedia/
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.wikimedia.org%2F2016%2F09%2…>
https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172
<https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172?hc_location=ufi>
I hope you get a chance to engage, and that these papers prove useful for
your outreach efforts.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
Hello all,
As you probably have noticed, in the last few years more and more library
communities are engaging with Wikipedia as a tool for teaching our patrons
effective internet research, but also as contributors of Wikimedia
projects, through projects like Art and Feminism
<http://art.plusfeminism.org/>and the #1lib1ref campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>.
But these kinds of collaborations, only scratch the surface -- whole
networks of libraries are integrating Wikipedia into their professional
work of sharing knowledge, and using it as a tool for serving their
patrons. Take for example the public libraries in Catalonia: nearly 200
libraries are actively contributing to Wikimedia projects, as an effort to
preserve Catalan language and culture.
Since early 2016, IFLA Headquarters and the Wikipedia Library Team at the
Wikimedia Foundation, have been supporting a group of Wikipedians and
Library experts in writing two white papers on the opportunities for
library and Wikipedia collaboration. Initial drafts of these papers were
presented at the WLIC 2016, and were well received.
We hope to continue to refine these papers, and we need your help to do it:
though the committees that wrote the papers include leading experts on
these collaboration, we know that their are hundreds of leaders in library
and Wikipedia communities who also have valuable experience with these
important partnerships. We hope to revise the current drafts to fully
reflect the global experience of Wikipedia and Library collaborators.
To this end, we invite you to join our open commenting period on the white
papers, that just opened on September 19 and will remain open through
October 31st. Instructions for commenting, are available in the following
Google docs:
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Opportunities for Public Libraries and Wikipedia
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUb…>
[1]
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Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries and Wikipedia
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA-3bgLDa2BZ…>
[2]
Thank you for your time! And please feel free to share the invitation for
comment widely!
Cheers,
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Julia Brungs, Policy and Research Officer, IFLA
[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUb…
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA-3bgLDa2BZ…
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From: Maria Cruz <mcruz(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:46 AM
Subject: [GLAM] We need your input: Building a shared vision of “Leadership”
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM
collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*TL:DR: The Community Engagement department invites you to participate in
the Leadership Development Dialogue now through October 16th [1]*
Hello there,
One of the really valuable, parts of our community, is the growing number
of volunteers who step beyond their comfort zone, and become guides,
mentors, and leaders for other parts of the volunteer community. This act
of emerging, to take on responsibilities that strengthen our community is
widespread, but also something that we need to embrace, refine and improve,
so that we have the capacity to meet our broader mission.
>From now through October 16th, the Community Engagement department invites
you to participate in an online dialogue about just how to describe and
build the leadership capacity. Please invite all who may be interested by
forwarding to your local community mailing lists, and be sure to join us
at: [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Leaders
hip_Development_Dialogue
In particular, we need your help:
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Improving the “Learning Days” and other leadership development programs
supported by the WMF and other organizations
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Refining the language and concepts we use to describe “leadership” -- in
our initial exploratory engagement of focus groups, we found that the word
“leader” does not translate well across language and cultures.
In behalf of the Community Engagement department, we hope to see you on the
wiki!
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \\
Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
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Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
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>> books and journals:
>> World Scientific - Scientific, technical, and medical journals:
>>
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>> Edinburgh University Press - Humanities and social sciences journals:
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>> American Psychological Association - Psychology books and journals:
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>> Emerald - Journals on a range of topics including business,
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> New free research access available (Wikipedia
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> The Wikipedia Library has five new free research donations available:
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> Nomos - Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences
> books and journals:
> World Scientific - Scientific, technical, and medical journals:
>
>
> Edinburgh University Press - Humanities and social sciences journals:
> <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edinburgh_University_Press>
>
> American Psychological Association - Psychology books and journals:
>
>
> Emerald - Journals on a range of topics including business, education,
> health care, and engineering: <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Emerald>
>
> Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Databases>
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> Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
> across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
>
> -The Wikipedia Library Team
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