Hello All!

Tomorrow at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific there will be a #critlib Twitter chat about the relationship between libraries and Wikipedia, moderated by myself (@fiiidget) and Sveta Stoytcheva (@oksveta), Humanities Librarian at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. We would love for members of this list to join in!

What is #critlib?

(from http://critlib.org):

"Critlib is short for “critical librarianship,” a movement of library workers dedicated to bringing social justice principles into our work in libraries. We aim to engage in discussion about critical perspectives on library practice. Recognizing that we all work under regimes of white supremacy, capitalism, and a range of structural inequalities, how can our work as librarians intervene in and disrupt those systems?"

Twitter chats last one hour, and are fairly informal, you are welcome to duck in and out as you need. Each chat has a set of 4-6 questions for participants to reflect on, as well as some suggested readings to familiarize yourself with the subject. The questions and readings for tomorrow's chat are available at: http://critlib.org/wikipedia-critlib/ However, the only requirement for participating in the chat is using the #critlib hashtag on your tweets!

Thanks for the work that you all already do to build bridges between the LIS & Wikipedia worlds, and we hope to see you on Twitter tomorrow!

Cheers,

S. E. Hackney

MSLIS, Pratt Institute SI

Doctoral Student, University of Pittsburgh SIS