As part of 1Lib1Ref 2018, the State Library of Queensland set themselves the task of adding mention of every public library in Queensland (6^th largest state in the world) into the relevant town/suburb/district article. All 200 and something of them are now all listed. It was not a problem to find reliable citations as there is an annual report compiled for the Government (available online), plus information on websites from their relevant local government authority (who operate the public libraries).

 

As an example, our smallest public library in Queensland is in McKinlay (population 178). Enjoy the exterior and interior photos of the library!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinlay,_Queensland

 

Kerry

 

 

 

From: Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Ramírez-Ordóñez
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Cc: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoronha@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libraries] [Wikipedia-l] List of Libraries...

 

Hi!

 

Maybe this could help:

 

https://librarymap.ifla.org/

Best,
--

David

http://www.nomono.co/david 

El 6/04/2019, a las 12:54 p.m., Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> escribió:

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Nice encouragement, but there are about 14k known "libraries" in Italy, of which over 2500 university libraries (although most of those don't have even one librarian)...
https://anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/

Is there some international standard to draw a line somewhere? If not, I suppose Italian contributors will keep working on Wikidata instead, where such information is easier to manage.

Federico

Frederick Noronha, 06/04/19 12:22:

Dear all: Please help to build list of libraries in your part of the world.

Some links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries

Indian Wikipedians, this could do with some love:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_India

This seems impressive to me (but I don't know how many are missing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Australia

And here's a listing from Nigeria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Nigeria

Fredericknoronha

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