Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, The Wikipedia Library's monthly newsletter. The Wikipedia Library is an open research hub for connecting libraries to Wikipedia and encyclopedia editors back to libraries and reliable sources.

There's lots of news this month for The Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved:

*New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

*Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

*New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

*New ideas:  OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

* News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

* Announcing WikiProject Open:'''  WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

* New ways to get involved: Free accounts, user profiles, subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/October2013

Thanks for reading! --Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) and Pat Earley (The Interior)

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