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Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together. This training curriculum will help you confidently begin to use, edit, and teach Wikipedia at your library. These materials were created during OCLC's Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project to strengthen ties between US public libraries and English-language Wikipedia.
Jun 5, 2018 · WebJunction is pleased to announce that the curated and consolidated curriculum, slides, and handouts for its nine-week Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together course are now available for use and adaptation for free under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licensing.
Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together was an 18-month OCLC project to strengthen the ties between US public libraries and English Wikipedia. The project ended in May 2018 and the connections, learning materials, stories, and outcomes are still unfolding. Library staff are leveraging Wikipedia to better serve their communities.
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We’ve selected and curated materials to enable library trainers to effectively implement similar Wikipedia trainings for their library staff--even if you've never edited Wikipedia before. Use them to get started, and as you gain confidence with Wikipedia editing, use the materials to implement trainings at your own library. Most participants did no...
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You may use and adapt these course materials for free under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licensing. When you do so, please credit WebJunction/OCLC and provide a link to the source materials; in addition, your adaptations should be shared under the same license agreement. More about CC BY-SA 4.0.
If you plan to use the OCLC Wikipedia + Libraries training curriculum and related materials to run a Wikipedia training program or would like support in hosting a Wikipedia + Libraries course for your library staff, please reach out to us. We'd love to work with you to strengthen ties between libraries and Wikipedia. Please contact Dale Musselman a...
Wikipedia and information literacy in libraries. In 2016, OCLC won the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s 2016 News Challenge for Libraries award with the project Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together. The project was designed to deliver a national training program via WebJunction to empower US public library staff to build their ...
Nov 1, 2018 · Over the winter break I put a team of librarians through the same Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together training I had completed over the summer/fall. We used women from intro to women’s studies, intro to Latina studies, intro to gay/lesbian studies, and women in speculative fiction as the focus of our edit-a-thon.
Let’s take a look at the OCLC WebJunction Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together course for some examples of how librarians are successfully incorporating Wikipedia into their practice. 16 Since 2003, WebJunction has been the online learning place for US public libraries and has been of vital
