Its super exciting the work that Merilee and OCLC are planning on doing in the United States! It might be a nice American counterpart to the great models already being explored by communities like Amical Wikimedia: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Case_studies/Catalonia%27s_Network_of_Public_Libraries . (Note that Wikimedia Spain and Netherlands are both working to do similar projects).
I would also point to a related piece of press this week: http://programminglibrarian.org/articles/wikipedia-intellectual-makerspace-libraries Cheers, Alex On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Shani <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> > 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] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > > -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: http://glamwiki.org
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