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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > >
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