Thanks, Alex! We did a series of five last year and have expanded a little this year. Each edit-a-thon is coordinated by a different librarian and most of us have been working with classes or are part of a larger community event. You’re right that students can be hard to reach, but we’ve had great success in working with faculty members as you suggest. We’re also fortunate in that we have a great school of information & library science, and many of our organizers and volunteers come from there.

Emily

On Mar 25, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Alex Stinson <astinson@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Thats amazing Emily! How is recruiting going for participation? The only other regions in the U.S. with that kind of editathon schedule, are very dense and have long historical networks. In my experience, student populations are often hard to engage, so you need a graduate student/faculty/volunteer core to make these kinds of events a success.

Cheers,

Alex Stinson

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Jack, Emily <jack@email.unc.edu> wrote:
Hi all,

In case anyone’s local to Durham and/or Chapel Hill, the libraries at Duke University and the University of North Carolina are hosting a series of seven edit-a-thons in March and April: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC

Also, a group of us have fielded questions from local librarians and archivists about how to organize an edit-a-thon so we created a planning toolkit: http://www.ncarchivists.org/editathon-toolkit/ 

Cheers,
Emily 

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Digital Projects and Outreach Librarian
North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Special Collections Library
CB #3930, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514-8890
(919) 962-4331
www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/gallery.html

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