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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. The project ran from December 2016 through May 2018 and was funded by ...
Libraries and Wikipedia share a common purpose: to provide free public access to knowledge and resources. 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 ...
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. Compiled specifically for library trainers, the curriculum guides trainers on their own ...
Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together Project. The 18-month project consisted of research, building awareness, and designing and delivering a curriculum and learning opportunities to empower US public libraries to confidently engage with Wikipedia. At the center of the project was a nine-week online training program for 300 US public library ...
Jul 17, 2017 · Please spread the word to public library staff about the Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project: Registration for up to 500 public library staff to enroll in the free, ten-week online training program Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together will open on 19 July; there will be six live online sessions during the ten-week course that will ...
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 Wikipedia skills, implement Wikipedia programming, and ...
discount Wikipedia as being unreliable, low quality, and a competitor to library services. Because of the scale and prominence that Wikipedia occupies in an information discovery context, when librarians disregard or devalue the opportunity to partner with Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, they may be missing an opportunity to leverage
