In order to be transparent, I will be giving periodic updates about our institutional Wikipedia activities. Please find below a short list of events we are working on for the fall, some in collaboration with Wikimedia NYC or directly with the Wikimedia Foundation.

As many of you know, I received a Wikimedia Foundation PEG grant, active in late July to continue and expand my work as Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. As a result of the grant, I am at METRO 3 days a week and will be until the end of January, 2015.

Please note that I have not mentioned institutions which I am in initial talks with below, as some prefer to be private until they have fully decided to engage. That said, if you have any more specific questions about an institution, I’d be happy to engage your inquiry. I hope to see you at some of the upcoming events!

Future Events

- Guggenheim Edit-a-Thon in their newly remodeled Education Center (89^th St.), planned for Archives Week, (10/09/14). Theme: “Museum Architecture,” The Guggenheim Venice also to host a remote event on the same day. (Event pages up soon).

- NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Edit-a-Thon– (West Harlem, 135^th st) Theme: “The Harlem Renaissance.” Jointly organized with Michael D. Lewis and Wikimedia NYC – TBD Date in late October.

- Pratt School of Information and Library Science Edit-a-Thon: Planning fall Edit-a-Thon at Pratt's Manhattan Branch on 14th w/ librarian organizers and SILSSA (student chapter of the American Library Association). Date TBD.

- International Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon Campaign #2, with Wikimedia Foundation official endorsement - late fall.  Several events in NYC. Dates announced soon.

 

Future METRO HQ Events (some for METRO members only)

- 1 Year Anniversary of Wikipedia at METRO, networking hour in the METRO workshop space.

- Planning a 3 Part Webinar series, which will be recorded live METRO and made available to the public soon after. Themes: (1) Reference and Citation on Wikipedia (2) Wikipedia, Libraries, and Education (3) Wikipedia and Medicine.

- Planning a Workshop on Open Image Licenses, Wikimedia Commons, and Options for Open Access Digital Repositories for Images. (For members).

- Planning a few more beginning Wikipedia editing trainings for librarians and archivists.

 

Resources and Writing

- Making an “organizer’s packet” for Edit-a-thons with a checklist for “day of” event metrics gathering, reporting and post-event metrics. (Attached) Let me know if you have input as this is all fairly new!

- Recent Interview with Michael Szajewski, digital development archivist at Ball State University, about Ball State University Library’s engagement with Wikipedia. As part of “Interview with a librarian,” series.

- Education about citation and Wikipedia and DOIs (digital object identifiers) and Wikipedia via ambassadorial role as CrossRef Wikipedia Ambassador.

Documentation

-       Working with Program Evaluation to create a metrics-gathering plan for all of METRO’s events, and for the project as a whole

-    Continual documentation of affiliate projects at: “Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council

 

As always, feel free to contact me about any of these projects, or further ideas for GLAM collaboration.

The Best,

Dorothy Howard

User: OR drohowa