GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council is having a photo-contest for photographs of New York Public Library Branch Libraries, Brooklyn Public Library Branch Libraries, and Queens Library Branch Libraries.

You are welcome to join in promoting the contest, and we can add the Wikimedia NYC name to it if you like. See the entry on our GLAM page for full details.

Also, if you would like to get more involved and stay updates with METRO's Wikipedia organizing activities with GLAMs please add yourself to this group/ listserv, which I just created https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/glamwikiny

I'm also revamping the Wikipedia:GLAM/US/New York page, and if anyone would like to help me update it, please do!

I hope to talk to Wikimedia NYC about my ideas for creating platforms for GLAMs to connect with each other, as well as the relationship between this group and Wikimedia NYC at your next meeting on October 5, 2013, which I will attend.

I also want to let everyone know that Richard K and I met with Frank Collerius at the Jefferson Market Library this Tuesday and an Edit-a-Thon there on November 2nd from 10am-5pm on Greenwich Village History is in the works. Frank was very excited to host and offered to select some rare books their library has on Greenwich Village, as well as (potentially) some photographs of the library from their archives for us to use at the Edit-a-Thon. Will talk more about this event at your next meeting I'm sure.

Cheers,

Dorothy Howard

Wikipedia User: OR drohowa

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