Hey All, I just wanted to remind you all to participate in the open commenting period: we only have a couple more weeks to weigh in and help solifidify the version of the white papers presented below.
I have been hearing lots of positive conversation at both in person events and through the communications backchannels: keep up the great work at socializing the papers or if you want to spread it on social media, point at the blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/engaging-libraries-wikipedia/ Cheers, Alex Stinson On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Alex Stinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi GLAM-Wiki Folks, > > With the cooperation of IFLA, we have been working on white papers. We > have prepared the below email to forward to library communities in your > context to solicit feedback on the draft white papers. Please share with > your partners and community coordinators. > > Also if you are on social media, we would welcome sharing of the > following: > > https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/777923564150325248 > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FWikimedia%2Fstatus%2F777923564150325248&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFv5dHpavaw84EM4yGvwKlrlz9dTg> > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/engaging-libraries-wikipedia/ > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.wikimedia.org%2F2016%2F09%2F19%2Fengaging-libraries-wikipedia%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHz8Bqqap2eqxL_oGdgNI_lCvQ7Pw> > > https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172 > <https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172?hc_location=ufi> > > > I hope you get a chance to engage, and that these papers prove useful for > your outreach efforts. > > Cheers, > > 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 > > > > > Hello all, > > As you probably have noticed, in the last few years more and more library > communities are engaging with Wikipedia as a tool for teaching our patrons > effective internet research, but also as contributors of Wikimedia > projects, through projects like Art and Feminism > <http://art.plusfeminism.org/>and the #1lib1ref campaign > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>. > > But these kinds of collaborations, only scratch the surface -- whole > networks of libraries are integrating Wikipedia into their professional > work of sharing knowledge, and using it as a tool for serving their > patrons. Take for example the public libraries in Catalonia: nearly 200 > libraries are actively contributing to Wikimedia projects, as an effort to > preserve Catalan language and culture. > > Since early 2016, IFLA Headquarters and the Wikipedia Library Team at the > Wikimedia Foundation, have been supporting a group of Wikipedians and > Library experts in writing two white papers on the opportunities for > library and Wikipedia collaboration. Initial drafts of these papers were > presented at the WLIC 2016, and were well received. > > We hope to continue to refine these papers, and we need your help to do > it: though the committees that wrote the papers include leading experts on > these collaboration, we know that their are hundreds of leaders in library > and Wikipedia communities who also have valuable experience with these > important partnerships. We hope to revise the current drafts to fully > reflect the global experience of Wikipedia and Library collaborators. > > To this end, we invite you to join our open commenting period on the white > papers, that just opened on September 19 and will remain open through > October 31st. Instructions for commenting, are available in the following > Google docs: > > - > > Opportunities for Public Libraries and Wikipedia > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUbcg98/edit#> > [1] > - > > Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries and Wikipedia > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA-3bgLDa2BZpF5M/edit?usp=sharing> > [2] > > > Thank you for your time! And please feel free to share the invitation for > comment widely! > > Cheers, > > > Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation > > Julia Brungs, Policy and Research Officer, IFLA > > > [1]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29- > rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUbcg98 > > [2]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA > -3bgLDa2BZpF5M > > > -- 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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