Very exciting! Good luck with it and do keep us posted.

Cheers,
Shani.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Proffitt,Merrilee <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello colleagues,
>
>
>
> As you may have heard, we were fortunate to receive funding from The John
> S. and James L. Knight Foundation to develop and run a program for
> librarians in order to equip them to embrace, edit, and interact on
> Wikipedia with a goal of getting them to the point where they can lead
> programs at their home institutions, engaging their communities. We are
> thinking big and aspire to have 500 librarians trained in our program. We
> will do this by developing content for a virtual online cohort that will
> learn together in real time. We are really excited about the possibilities
> of bringing the Wikimedia community close to librarians – two communities
> that are passionate about providing access to information and knowledge.
>
> (I wrote about the grant here
> http://www.oclc.org/blog/main/lets-open-library-doors-to-wikipedia/ )
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, we were only funded for 57% of the requested amount. We are
> making an additional request to WMF to fund the Wikipedian-In-Residence
> that will be a key part of this program. We think that because of the
> potential that we have for reaching librarians, and supporting them at
> scale that this is an exciting program and one that may be a good model for
> other types of allied communities, and definitely for librarians in other
> geographies. I am particularly excited about the prospect of developing
> librarians to the point of being able to empower the diverse committees
> they serve.
>
>
>
> We hope you’ll take a look at our proposal, give us feedback, and
> hopefully lend your support.
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/A_Wikipedian-in-Residence_to_Engage_500_Librarians_and_their_Communities
>
>
>
> Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
> OCLC Research
>
>
>
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