I would like to see the library collaboration also have a focus on locality and local archival resources, which are often held by the library. Without being too venal about it, I think the local angle creates a sense of "belonging" and also illustrates the unique materials held by the library.

Another angle would be to find out what special collections the local library has, and emphasize those.

kc

On 9/20/13 6:43 AM, Dorothy Howard wrote:

Thanks Bettina and Pheobe,

Pheobe, the 'Editing ideas' document that you have is very useful, and I
will try to expand on it.

I'd like to contribute a document that I created as part of a GLAM
workshop in NY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_for_Libraries_Archives_Museums

We talked about what kind of sustainable, regular, project librarians
could build so that editing or training their library users became a
more regular part of their work.

Cheers,
Dorothy


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Bettina Cousineau

<bdcousineau@gmail.com <mailto:bdcousineau@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Hi Phoebe -

    These are very useful, thanks!
    In my region, public librarians admit to being "scared" of Wikipedia
    and don't know much about it or how to use it. So...

    *...here's a slide deck developed for a branch-wide presentation as
    an intro to Wikipedia:

    http://www.slideshare.net/bdcousineaul/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-wikipedia-but?from_search=2

    * ... and here's an adaptation of a manual originally developed by
    Susanna Giaccai (still in my sandbox - feel free to improve!):

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bdcousineau/sandbox1

    Cheers,

    Bettina

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        As we enter Wikipedia Loves Libraries season (hooray!) I thought
        I'd share
        some material I'm working on ... it started as a handout for
        librarians but
        changed to being ideas for librarians and participants at library
        edit-a-thons. It is a list of editing ideas that (I think) are
        suited to
        taking advantage of library resources.

        pdf handout:
        https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ten_ideas_for_editing_Wikipedia_handout_for_library_editathons.pdf

        wiki page:
        https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Editing_ideas

        I have been reluctant to share this because "it's not
        finished"... but that
        is very un-wiki of me :) But, it's not finished -- especially
        the wiki
        page. So, please help me edit, clean-up, redesign, and in
        general let me
        know if you think this is a good idea or not. (And I will keep
        working on
        this over the next few weeks).

        cheers,
        Phoebe

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