Hi there,
Imagine my delight that you are creating a list of all the libraries in the world! However
this does present a bit of an issue – are all libraries notable? The American Library
Association estimates that there are around 120,000 libraries but doesn’t have an exact
number because there is not a survey that covers all of them. Since librarians are
discouraged from creating articles about their own institutions, this could be
problematic? If this is an initiative that has broad approval I’m happy to help in any way
that I can!
http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet01
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
From: libraries-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
On Behalf Of Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 1:41 AM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.; Wikimedia & Libraries
Subject: Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, 000 facts added a
year ?
2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
<emijrp@gmail.com<mailto:emijrp@gmail.com>>:
2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea
<lucian.velea@lexica.ro<mailto:lucian.velea@lexica.ro>>:
Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries / librarians by
country?
I compiled some numbers here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries
And started a list of lists that needs to be completed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country
Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries so they can
provide info about all the libraries for each country?
I have been working in Lists of museums/archives/libraries by country long time, but I
only find partial lists and the work is slow. How can we make these institutions get
involved?
All the best,
Lucian
On 23.06.2015 9:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world out there !!
Thanks,
GerardM
On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry
<thadguidry@gmail.com<mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com>> wrote:
If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it per work day in their
spare 2 mins a day.
119,729 Libraries in USA
x
1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-)
x
251 work days in a year
=
30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified
Get the word out,
Thad
+ThadGuidry<https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
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