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We librarians flatter ourselves that we know a thing or two about organizing information. It's time we stepped up and contributed to Wikipedia: not just to its content but to its structures and technologies. This project page is intended to provide a rallying point for these activities. --Helperzoom 06:20, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Goals

  • Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
  • Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to Wikipedia based on library experience
  • Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
  • Assist with categorization
  • See also the similar but much more developed project page on the German Wikipedia.

[edit] Current tasks

[edit] Writing new articles

Develop articles on List of basic library and information science topics. See also content at LISWiki

[edit] Article improvement collaboration

  • Add articles here!

See Category:Library_and_information_science and its subcategories, as well as Category:Library and information science stubs, for other articles to improve. Post them here if you will need help from others.

[edit] ISBN linking

  • ISBN linking. What should a typical ISBN page look like? (e.g. ISBN 0-12-345678-9). The current page knows about xISBN (see the bottom of the page), but doesn't know what to do with it. Should use of xISBN be expanded?
Some options:
  • convert each ISBN from xISBN into a link - easy to do, but could produce lots and lots of links to check
  • convert list of ISBNs from xISBN into a combined query to RedLightGreen etc. - have to work out the syntax for this, might fail for large sets (maybe just do the top 10? they are sorted in order of frequency in WorldCat, so the top few are the most common)
  • and what about LibraryThing links, using its <a href="http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2006/06/introducing-thingisbn_14.php">ThingISBN API</a>? --User:Paullisa
  • Also: how about making the standard ISBN link produce a latent OpenURL like this: <a name='isbn=0-120345678-9' rel='alternate' title='OpenURL'>? Users with suitable browser plugins could then bypass the Wikipedia ISBN page and be directed to their home library's link resolver. --Helperzoom 17:23, 26 May 2005 (UTC).
    • Note that work is still being done on a spec for latent OpenURL.--openly
  • Will there be any problems with Wikipedia ISBN linking when ISBNs are expanded to 13 digits?

[edit] Portal

Portal:Library and information science has been featured! Her Pegship (tis herself) 14:07, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction to Wikipedia Culture for Librarians

Under construction at /Introduction

[edit] Introduction to librarians for Wikipedians

Some Wikipedians who have identified themselves as librarians on Wikipedia have generously volunteered their practical expertise in the management and maintenance of information on Wikipedia. These tasks have included activities such as:

  1. Annotating articles with verifiable references
  2. Indexing of authoritative sources for articles
  3. Verifying the factuality of cited sources
  4. Creating navigational aids (such as links) for retrieval of encyclopedic information
  5. Organizing
  6. Managing
  7. Classifying
  8. Disseminating

We need a coherent statement of what we think we have to offer, based on what we do as librarians.

[edit] Fact checking and adding sources

[edit] Pathfinders & further reading

  • The pathfinders created by SLIS students and posted online here might be great resources for their topics.

[edit] Members

Please sign up here and introduce yourself.

  • Kiwimac -- Librarian. Currently working as a small town librarian.
  • Helperzoom - digital librarian (my blog). So far all I've done is tinker; expanded the Z39.50 article; drafting article on OpenURL. --Helperzoom 06:20, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Neschek - I'm a final semester library school student and am moving to Ohio for a librarian job within the month. I got the job in Ohio in part because of a well-received talk I made last year on Wikipedia and wikis in general. I make a lot of minor edits to articles but have only started one non-library related article. -- — I. Neschek | talk 15:01, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Bill Drew - Systems Librarian at SUNY Morrisville College Library, Morrisville, NY (20 years). I want to keep up with the newest technologies and thislooks like the place to do that. See my blog (BabyBoomerLibrarian).
  • GUllman - Reference librarian at a U.S. public library. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since its second year, and have created such (hopefully useful) articles and projects as Library reference desk, List of books, Lists of articles by category, Wikipedia:Library and Information Science basic topics, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Books. Biggest pet peeve: enthusiastic contributors in other fields are cranking out lots of featured articles, but librarians are not writing about library science and research methodology. It becomes a circular argument that most librarians don't regard Wikipedia very highly and join us when they see the quality of articles in their own field.
  • Omassey - Rare books cataloguer in London, UK. Tinkerer and tidier by nature. Omassey 12:23, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
  • Chapman - Metadata librarian for a research library. Nothing completed yet.-- 16:21, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Phoebe -- Phoebe Ayers; currently a reference librarian in a large academic sciences library. I've been kicking around here since 2003 and will gladly help try to explain either Wikipedia or the library research process :) I give occasional talks about WP to library groups; and work on Wikipedia research and Wikimedia Foundation issues.
  • Jenny Blower -- Trainee librarian (I will finish my degree soon..) who loves to tinker about and fix spelling mistakes, add missing graphics, add ISBNs and add appropriate categories. Hoping to expand Category:Children's books.
  • Elizabeth McKenty aka lislemck -- Public librarian for 10 years. Previously a proofreader, factchecker, advertising copywriter, beauty magazine editor, um, cataloguer, bibliographer (3 books), and trainer. I am missing some, but I love to pull things apart, critique, edit. I have been called a perfectionist more than once. I have edited Wikipedia articles in the past, but not lately. Will see what I can do here. Visit my blog (Biblioblatherblog). Recently blogged for LITA at ALA annual (LITA Blog}
  • Joshua Lambert -- Academic librarian and contributor to Wikipedia and Wikibooks since early 2004. Not a lot of Wikipedia contributions lately but monitor many articles. Liblamb 18:59, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Sue Maberry - Director of Library and Assistant to the Provost for Instructional Technology, Otis College of Art and Design. In preparation for teaching last month, I was researching Wikipedia and I became fascinated. I'm starting to create articles in one of my areas of interest, women in the arts.--Sue Maberry 18:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
  • FeanorStar7 -- Cataloger at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; I have edited several hundred articles on Wikipedia, of all kinds, chiefly biographical. I think Wikipedia is a great resource. Librarians can only make it better!
  • Jenelle Cleary -- Librarian - Parliamentary Library, Victoria, Australia. Love cleaning up wiki-mess and making things pretty. You can find out more at (Jenelle.net)
  • Her Pegship -- Librarian at a Northern California private school; previously I worked for other public libraries in the Central Valley and Sacramento areas. I'm big on wikitidying as well, and my pet projects are films based on books and stuff on The Da Vinci Code, about which I'm co-teaching a workshop in April. Cheers, Her Pegship 06:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Wootking I am a librarian on weekends at my local library, but mostly, I am a failed writer, and have written several books, all of which have been rejected Tom 16:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Rory Litwin -- I am a librarian at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and an ALA Councilor. I am responsible for Library Juice, the blog and former web-zine, and starting a book publishing company, Library Juice Press. I am a former Coordinator of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table and a current member of the Coordinating Committee of the Progressive Librarians Guild, as well as being a member of the Progressive Librarian editorial board. I like Michael Gorman. Rlitwin 00:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Neal Starkey ( Nowimnthing) Reference Librarian at a mid sized U.S. public library. Semi-frequent poster at Library Underground, been playing with various wiki's since 2005. Nowimnthing 13:46, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Andrea, a.k.a. Little Otik -- I just got my MSLIS from Pratt, where I tried to promote Wikipedia to librarians and library students as much as possible.
  • Kristen -- Academic librarian. Have not contributed much to Wikipedia but would like to do more.
  • David Goodman, DGG Academic Librarian--about twenty years at Princeton, as chemistry librarian, biological sciences bibliographer, and Research librarian. I've a doctorate from Berkeley in molecular biology, and then a MLS from Rutgers. I've taught teaching at LIU Palmer library school full time for the last 4 years. My main concern is scientific publishing, both as public policy and bibliometrics. I respect the experts in other fields -- & even those in my own field :) listed here, and if my edits doesn't match what you think, let me know and we'll find a way.
  • W.M. Tharanga D. Ranasinghe - Assistant Librarian/User Education Services & IT, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.(my blog). So far I have added the "Reference Service" entry for the glossary of library terms.
  • Steven Harris, collection development librarian at Utah State University. Steven.Harris 03:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Jim Ratliff - I'm a multi-purpose Librarian at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. I have a general interest in just about everything and am contributing to and studying Wikipedia as part of my tenure process. User:JaySeaAre
  • Planetneutral - IT Manager for a mid-major metropolitan public library. Most of my Wikipedia work is related to the WikiProject Visual Arts. Planetneutral 20:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Ellbeecee - Currently an academic librarian in Ohio, but I've accepted a new position in another state and will be moving this summer. I've not created any articles as yet, but I've got a couple in mind. Most of my contributions to Wikipedia to date include minor grammar/spelling fixes and recent changes patrolling for vandalism. I just came across this portal recently and had to join. Ellbeecee 12:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
  • MFulvio -- I'm a librarian who works on taxonomy & thesaurus management and automatic metadata generation at an international organization in Washington, DC. I compulsively fix typos and add links and categorization here on Wikipedia, but I'd love to also help enhance some of the information science articles and work on the librarian portal. Mfulvio 14:55, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Chavdar Likov Mad Hatter - I am a library and information science student. I am also working as a school librarian at the moment for general experience. I have large collection of e-books. I support full digitalization of human knowledge. I am involved mostly in literary and music articles.
  • Boethius65 -- I am a librarian between jobs at the moment. I have been a reference librarian, cataloguer, and branch librarian in my native New Zealand. My contributions have been in adding bibliographic resources to articles upon towns in my home province, and in making minor edits in articles on music, Roman Catholicism, and ecclesiastical history.
  • Rocketcitymel - M.L.S., IT Manager for Public Library. Background in Graphic Arts & Communication including Book Arts and digitization.
  • Libsys - M.L.S. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Library Information Technology Division Head. Work interests: digitization, digital collection and IR building; OTW: gardening, cats, reading (is that like SUCH a typical librarian profile!?)
  • Hennap - M.S.L.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over 20 years experience in cataloging, name authority work and organization of materials. Editing Wikipedia is addictive! Check my userpage for other interests! --Hennap (talk) 17:57, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Supporters of Librarians who contribute to Wikipedia

  • Ta bu shi da yu 03:59, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Jmabel | Talk 01:47, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
  • —thames 18:18, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Chris 73 Talk 19:40, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
  • — Catherine\talk 01:09, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
  • MarkSweep 06:32, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Apwoolrich 19.28, 24 March, 2005 (UTC)
  • DanKeshet 02:35, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • sounds like an interesting and good project JesseW 04:19, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • --Alterego 21:51, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
  • (Mtindia 23:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)); This section is a place where I easily visualize the credibility of the members. This, contrasts, directly with invisible colleagues in other sections of Wiki (who wish to remain anonymous). Members in this section must be congratulated for their authority as they continue to contribute to the area of middleware and facilitate building better methods of knowledge organization. I, as a librarian, like to call this process as information visualization.
  • Tennessee Wood
  • Jacqui★ 14:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Back in college, I had a work-study job as a library assistant and I know how difficult it can be. Knowing how difficult wikipedia is, I salute and will do what I can to assist them in their efforts here. Badbilltucker 13:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • David Palfrey Dsp13talk 16:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


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