Thank you!!!! Will post tomorrow Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.aflia.net AfLIA, Connecting Africa's Library and Information Communities "Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 8:23 pm Merrilee Proffitt, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you so much for joining our community! > > Writing a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation is a very open > process, and notifying this group is a great starting point! Once you're > grant proposal is available, please let us know so that we can comment on > it and support it. You can send a note to this list. > > You may also find support in the general GLAM community, and also in the > Education Community. I hope members of those groups will also offer > guidance. > > Best, > > Merrilee > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:47 AM Nkem Osuigwe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information >> Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of >> Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more >> Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a resource >> for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms of >> agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia standards >> and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant >> proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already >> existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information >> environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were >> developed by OCLC for an American audience. I came across this Discussion >> list as I was researching to understand more about how the Resource has >> been used by libraries. >> Now, I saw in writing for the grant proposal that I need to have informed >> Wikipedia Communities. Please can I get guidance on the Wikipedia >> communities that I need to inform that AfLIA is writing for a Wikipedia >> project grant to support the hiring of a Wikipedian in Residence? >> Also, I strongly believe that we will need ideas and tips from this >> Community to help AfLIA run the training course successfully. >> You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net >> We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to >> leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. >> I look forward to hearing from anyone here. >> Thank you! >> >> Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN >> Human Capacity Development & Training Director, >> African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) >> P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana. >> *[email protected] <[email protected]> * >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> *Website: www.aflia.net <http://www.aflia.net>* >> Facebook /Twitter /Instagram >> >> *"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster >> horses." - Henry Ford.* >> *"**Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while >> imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know >> and understand" - Albert Einstein* >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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