Meeting Minutes-25 January 2017

Attendees:

Shannon Eichelberger (SE)

Eugene Eichelberger (EE)

Rebecca O’Neill (RO)

Sharon Flynn (SF)

Kelly Fitzgerald (KF)

User Group

SE, EE and RO will be meeting with the Simple APG committee on Friday 27 January or Monday 30 January to answer any questions about the grant before a decision is made. EE will handle any question pertaining to copyright and WLM data; RO will handle any questions pertaining to education; SE will handle any other questions that arise.
It was decided by those attending that the contract positions, if approved, will require very specific jobs descriptions before going out to tender. SE and EE will create the job specifications. It was also decided that the following criteria must be included:

WLM-Wiki editing ability mandatory; must be willing to travel to Dublin to meet with government officials
WLE-event management experience mandatory

Edit-a-thon/Workshops

28 February-DCU Library-2-5-This is being organised by the librarian at DCU with assistance from Rebecca. It will focus on creating/expanding articles on notable people, place and things at DCU. Students and staff will be welcome.
March-Trinity College Library-workshop celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Berkeley Library. The event will focus on the architecture of the library and will be open to Librarians and students. RO has already created a list of suggested articles. (moved from February)
9 March-NUI Galway-International Women’s Day-All Day drop-in. The venue has been confirmed as the ALice Perry Building which will be officially dedicated that day. SF has created a page for the event which can be viewed here. It is already being advertised on campus and participants are being asked to recommend articles for inclusion in the event.
Week of 6 March-NUI Maynooth-Possible International Women’s Day workshop
Week of 6 March-Accenture/WITS-possible Art + Feminism workshop

Conferences

WLM

-- Shannon Eichelberger

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