Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Libraries/2011

Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2011 campaign planning archive page.

The first annual coordinated Wikipedia Loves Libraries event in October/November 2011 brought Wikipedians and librarians together for knowledge-sharing and editathon events across the U.S. and Canada. The campaign as a whole was covered. It was a big event lots of people came. the food was great! in American Libraries magazine, while 'Wikipedia: The Musical' drew New York Times coverage. There was a great diversity of events focused on the particular holdings and community of each participating library.

See 2011 highlights at the pages linked below:

2011 campaign

  • Around October 2011, in sympathy with Wikipedians' moral support of Open Access Week.
(One possible option is the weekend of Oct 29/30 to exactly match Open Access Week, but any date is good.)

November


Training Workshop on Capacity Building of College Librarians of Pakistan on 17-18 November, 2011 at Lahore by Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organziation[1]http://librarianswelfare.org/trainings/

Canadian cities and libraries

Montreal

With grassroots organizing help from local Wikipedia:Meetup groups and Wikimedia Canada...

Proposer: User:Zalgo

Toronto

One of the following libraries:

Proposer: Rayson@Open Grid Scheduler

Vancouver

U.S. cities and libraries

WikiUSA

With grassroots organizing help from local Wikipedia:Meetup groups and the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) committee...

Entry format: 

* Library and city, link to meetup or discussion page
** Proposer:
** Date of local event:
** More details (or discussion) at X

Northeast

  • Bernards Township Library (Somerset County, New Jersey)
    • Proposer: Bernards Township Library
    • Date of local event: October 26
    • More details at library's event page Call 908-204-3038 with questions.

Midwest

  • St. Louis, Missouri
    • Proposer: Elonka
    • Date of local event: October 15th, 10:30 a.m., Kathryn Linnemann Library.[1]
    • To help the library with an accurate count, please pre-register at the library's website, here
    • More details at Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis
  • Hennepin County Library
    • Proposer: Hennepin County Library
    • Event: Edit-a-thon
    • Date of event: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10-5 pm
    • Location: Minneapolis Central Library, Special Collection 4th floor
    • More details at Meetup/Minnesota talk

South

  • Farmville-Prince Edward branch of the Central Virginia Regional Library
    • Organizer: Ethompson525
    • Date of local event: October 30, 2011
    • More details at Farmville/PE Library Offers Wikipedia Training
    • There will be a session for laptop users in the library's meeting room from 2:30-3:30 pm. An identical session for desktop users will be offered in the library's computer lab from 3:45-4:45 pm.
    • Instruction will be designed for the beginning Wikipedia editor. Call (434) 392-6924 to register (registration is optional) or for more details.
  • Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Central Library (www.afpls.org/central-hq)
    • Organizer: Ganeshk
    • Date of local event: November 19, 2011
    • Conference room on the reference floor with a projector
    • Easy access to reference materials, library databases, and a librarian if you had any questions.
    • Sign up at the Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta 2 page

West

  • Tom of Finland Foundation Library, Los Angeles, CA
    • Proposer: Opal Whiteley (talk)
    • Date of local event: October 30
    • More details at Queering Wikipedia Editathon (focus on LGBT content)
  • Embudo Valley Library, Dixon, New Mexico
    • Einar (hint: "Ei" is a long A, as in "eight") Being a librarian and a wikipedian might come in handy. First task could well be writing an article about the library.
    • Scheduled an "Introduction to editing wikipedia" event, date: Monday, Oct. 17
    • More details at Event page at Embudo Valley Library website


  • Anchorage, Alaska
  • Lousacc Library
    • User: Library
    • Librarians, theater and any upcoming Social events.
  1. ^ http://www.librarianswelfare.org. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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