Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Librarians@Pratt Fall 2016

Pratt Manhattan Campus at 138-146 West 14th Street

A Librarians @ Pratt Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Fall 2016) will take place at Pratt Institute's Manhattan campus on Saturday, October 29th, 2016, from 1:00-6:00PM. The focus of this event is to create and edit pages about Library and Information Science, Archives, notable Librarians, Archivists or LIS professionals, especially those with some connection to the Pratt Institute School of Information. This event is fifth in a series of edit-a-thons hosted by Pratt SILSSA to foster LIS student engagement on Wikipedia.

Previous Events

• Librarians @ Pratt Edit-a-thon, November 1, 2015.
• Librarians @ Pratt Edit-a-thon Part 2, April 18th, 2015.
• Librarians @ Pratt Fall 2015 October 24th, 2015.
• Librarians @ Pratt Spring 2016 February 27th, 2016.

Details

• Hosts: Pratt School of Information Student Association (SILSSA)
• Date: Saturday, October 29, 2016.
• Time: 1-6pm: Instruction from 1 - 2, Drop-in editing thereafter until 6
• Location: Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science (6th Floor, Room 609)
• Address: 144 West 14th St, New York, NY 10011
• Cost: Free
• What to Bring: Participants should bring laptops and ideas. There will be desktop computers available but only accessible by current Pratt students, faculty, and staff.
• Participants: Open to Pratt Institute students, faculty, staff, and alumni; plus invited guests.
• Other contacts: Anarchyshake

Articles to Edit

• See notable alumni at Pratt Institute School of Information
• Articles tagged with Category:Librarians. To find one, simply search Category:Librarians above

• Cataloging - add the work of Hope A. Olson, [Pratt adjunct faculty member Emily Drabinski]
• Collection development
• Knowledge Organization
• Master of Library and Information Science
• Metadata, specifically the section on Libraries
• Open Access
• Predatory open access publishing
• Reference interview

Articles to Create

• Constance Bement
• Seoud Matta
• Herman H.B. Meyer
• Wayne Shirley
• Edward Francis Stevens
• Anne Woodsworth

Resources

Editing Wikipedia

• Wiki Markup Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
• WP:Notability (people)
• How to create a Wikipedia entries that will stick

Wikipedia's Principles

• Wikipedia:Five Pillars
• Wikipedia:Assume Good Faith
• Wikipedia:Be Bold

Outside Resources

• Dropbox of Sources - Mostly biographical
• List of Pages to Edit

Sign-up

If you are planning to attend this event, and you have a Wikipedia account, please add your name below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).

RSVPs

• Anarchyshake (talk) 17:08, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Eganrach (talk) 01:15, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

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