"we have a great school of information & library science, and many of our organizers and volunteers come from there."
So library school students? Thats awesome -- since there is such a large presence of activity going on: has there been conversations about rotating more Wikipedia-inflected activities into the MLIS degree? Cheers, Alex Stinson On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Jack, Emily <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Alex! We did a series of five last year and have expanded a little > this year. Each edit-a-thon is coordinated by a different librarian and > most of us have been working with classes or are part of a larger community > event. You’re right that students can be hard to reach, but we’ve had great > success in working with faculty members as you suggest. We’re also > fortunate in that we have a great school of information & library science, > and many of our organizers and volunteers come from there. > > Emily > > > On Mar 25, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Alex Stinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thats amazing Emily! How is recruiting going for participation? The only > other regions in the U.S. with that kind of editathon schedule, are very > dense and have long historical networks. In my experience, student > populations are often hard to engage, so you need a graduate > student/faculty/volunteer core to make these kinds of events a success. > > Cheers, > > Alex Stinson > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Jack, Emily <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> In case anyone’s local to Durham and/or Chapel Hill, the libraries at >> Duke University and the University of North Carolina are hosting a series >> of seven edit-a-thons in March and April: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC >> >> >> - At Duke: Women of Science and Philosophy: Reframing the Canon with >> the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection and Project Vox >> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Durham/Women_of_Science_and_Philosophy> >> - 29 March 2016 >> - At UNC: Assessment in Psychology Edit-a-thon >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UNC/Assessment_in_Psychology_3> >> - 31 March 2016 >> - UNC: North Carolina Folk Heritage Edit-a-thon >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/NC_Folk_Heritage_2016> >> - 5 April 2016 >> - UNC: Women + Graphic Novels Edit-a-thon >> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/Women_%2B_Graphic_Novels_2016> >> - 6 April 2016 >> - UNC: African Diaspora Women Artists Edit-a-thon >> >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UNC/African_Diaspora_Women_Artists> >> - 7 April 2016 >> - UNC: Women in Science Edit-a-thon >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/Women_in_Science_2016> >> - 18 April 2016 >> - UNC: Art + Feminism 2016 >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/UNC/Art_%2B_Feminism_2016> >> - 20 April 2016 >> >> >> Also, a group of us have fielded questions from local librarians and >> archivists about how to organize an edit-a-thon so we created a planning >> toolkit: http://www.ncarchivists.org/editathon-toolkit/ >> >> Cheers, >> Emily >> >> --- >> Emily Jack >> Digital Projects and Outreach Librarian >> North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Special Collections Library >> CB #3930, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514-8890 >> (919) 962-4331 >> www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/gallery.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > >
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