Yes, great project and do keep us posted. Even though you are targeting public librarians, I would really like to do this with my information literacy classes.
Looking forward to learning more. ____________________________________________ Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS Librarian, Lifelong Learner Jerome Parker Campus Library 100 Essex Drive Staten Island, NY 10314 718-370-6900 x1322 [email protected] Jerome Parker Campus Library<http://jeromeparkercampus.libguides.com/home> YA Books for Donor Offspring<http://yabooksfordonoroffspring.blogspot.com> You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. - James Baldwin, "Talk to Teachers," Saturday Review 21, (December 1963) When we diminish a child's reading choice, we diminish the child who made that choice. - Donalyn Miller, author of The book whisperer: awakening the inner reader in every child, Jossey-Bass, 2009 ________________________________ From: GLAM-US <[email protected]> on behalf of Shani <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 11:45 AM To: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] Cc: [email protected]; North American Cultural Partnerships Subject: Re: [GLAM-US] [GLAM] WMF project request: A Wikipedian-in-Residence to Engage 500 Librarians and their Communities Very exciting! Good luck with it and do keep us posted. Cheers, Shani. On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Proffitt,Merrilee <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello colleagues, As you may have heard, we were fortunate to receive funding from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to develop and run a program for librarians in order to equip them to embrace, edit, and interact on Wikipedia with a goal of getting them to the point where they can lead programs at their home institutions, engaging their communities. We are thinking big and aspire to have 500 librarians trained in our program. We will do this by developing content for a virtual online cohort that will learn together in real time. We are really excited about the possibilities of bringing the Wikimedia community close to librarians - two communities that are passionate about providing access to information and knowledge. (I wrote about the grant here http://www.oclc.org/blog/main/lets-open-library-doors-to-wikipedia/ ) Unfortunately, we were only funded for 57% of the requested amount. We are making an additional request to WMF to fund the Wikipedian-In-Residence that will be a key part of this program. We think that because of the potential that we have for reaching librarians, and supporting them at scale that this is an exciting program and one that may be a good model for other types of allied communities, and definitely for librarians in other geographies. I am particularly excited about the prospect of developing librarians to the point of being able to empower the diverse committees they serve. We hope you'll take a look at our proposal, give us feedback, and hopefully lend your support. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/A_Wikipedian-in-Residence_to_Engage_500_Librarians_and_their_Communities Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research _______________________________________________ GLAM mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
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