Blogging by and for academic and research librarians
Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Nathan Sonnenschein, User Services & Experience Librarian at Montana State University Billings. During my first year as an undergraduate, my community college’s library handed out folders bearing a catchphrase: “Faster than Google. Better than Wikipedia. Your college library.” This gave me the impression that academic libraries … Continue reading “Rethinking Wikipedia from a Library Perspective”
If you haven’t heard yet, the latest round of #1Lib1Ref is currently underway. This initiative, running from January 15 to February 5 this round, encourages librarians to add one missing citation to a Wikipedia article. Much has been written before about Wikipedia, its uses in libraries, and how librarians can help to improve Wikipedia. Check … Continue reading “#1Lib1Ref: An Easy Gateway to Wikipedia Editing”
Last weekend I had a great time participating in the Wikipedia Art+Feminism editathon, an annual event to increase the representation and coverage of women in the arts on Wikipedia. You may remember Art+Feminism co-organizer Siân Evans’s guest post last December — Why GLAM Wiki — which well-explains the editathon’s aims and accomplishments. I’m a huge … Continue reading “Working on Wikipedia Redux”
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Siân Evans, Senior Implementation Manager at Artstor. In the fall of 2013, I was thinking about how every year I attend the ARLiS Women and Art Special Interest Group at ARLiS NA’s annual conference. And, every year, we as a group would lament the lack of representation of cis … Continue reading “Why GLAM Wiki: Wikipedia and Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums”
Recently while I was teaching a class the instructor asked me whether I thought that Wikipedia would ever come to be considered a generally trustworthy, credible source. I always talk about Wikipedia in my one-shot instruction sessions, especially with first year students, but this was the first time I’d ever gotten a question along those … Continue reading “Waiting on Wikipedia”