Dear LIS Professionals,
Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the Special Lecture on;
Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)"
Speaker: Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships Fellow)
Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM
Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc, Bangalore -12
Abstract:
In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration that libraries
and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any questions about Wikipedia more generally.
About the Speaker:
Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Cultural Partnerships Fellow (a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in Globalisation. He had been given a one year
fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse.
His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is “capacity building” as described in his blogpost a few months ago “
How
to make cultural collaborations scale“. He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with Wikimedia can be A Good Thing™, that we must have reasonably professional processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first
step in this he has built a bit of a
GLAM hub on-wiki. For more details, he can be accessed at this URL
http://glamwiki.org
Thanks and Regards,
Rajendra Babu H
General Secretary
Karnataka State Library Association (KALA)