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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#282828">Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 30, 2015 1:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion list for the Wikidata project.; Wikimedia & Libraries<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, 000 facts added a year ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <<a href="mailto:emijrp@gmail.com" target="_blank">emijrp@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea <<a href="mailto:lucian.velea@lexica.ro" target="_blank">lucian.velea@lexica.ro</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries / librarians by country?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I compiled some numbers here <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal">And started a list of lists that needs to be completed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country" target="_blank">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country</a><br>
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Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries so they can provide info about all the libraries for each country?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world out there !!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <<a href="mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com" target="_blank">thadguidry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it per work day in their spare 2 mins a day.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified<o:p></o:p></p>
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