Hi Bettina,

I don't know of anything specifically (and you know I'm keeping my eye out for good examples!) but I did notice this from the Primary Research Group (below). I don't have access to this report (and in my opinion their reports don't contain the "meat" I wish they did) but I was surprised by the number of libraries in their sample who are giving Wikipedia workshops. What does that mean? What is the focus? I have no idea. Good luck and if you get more info, please pass it along!

Merrilee

Primary Research Group has published Library Use of the Mega Internet Sites, 2013 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-241-4.  The study looks closely at how libraries are using Google, Pinterest, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon, Bing, Instagram, Vimeo, Twitter, Ebay and many other major internet sites.  Just a few of the findings from the study are that:

    4.17% of the libraries have workshops which teach patrons to use Craigslist
    25% of the libraries sampled give workshops on how to use Wikipedia
    90% of college libraries sampled give workshops on how to use Google Scholar.
    A third of legal and corporate libraries sampled considered Google Translate to be “highly useful”.
    Nearly 43% of libraries with an annual budget of more than $1 million considered Bing to be “highly useful”.
    The mean number of subscribers to the Twitter accounts of the libraries in the sample was 323.
    Non-USA libraries were much more likely than US-libraries to consider MySpace useful.
    About 23% of the libraries sampled had a YouTube account.
    Public libraries in the sample spent a mean of $8,000 ordering books from Amazon in the past year.
    12.5% of libraries sampled use FlickR in their professional work. 

The 160+ page study is available from Primary Research Group for $72.00. For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.

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From: libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Bettina Cousineau
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:10 PM
To: libraries@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [libraries] Wikipedia classes in the Public Library setting

 

Hello -

Is anyone else using classroom space in their local public library to teach editing skills/as part of the library's computer class offerings? I'd love to hear your experiences.

Here's what's going on in Michigan this summer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/West_Michigan#2013

Also, has anyone developed a good core curriculum to teach the librarians how to help their patrons use Wikipedia?

Thanks for the input.

Cheers,

Bettina

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