Kathleen de la Peña McCook

“ Others were extant entries that were expanded and edited. Because Wikipedia is not in alphabetical order but is an openly searchable database I have listed biographies the way they appear on their Wikipedia pages. Some students included new images with their reports and a few examples are provided. Some wrote biographies of librarians whose careers had a focus on human rights. Some looked to the history of the discipline to add notable librarians and book people.
Helen Marot was a Progressive librarian and Labor Movement activist
Winarti Partaningrat. ”

“ A class is a good small place.
In this article I provide a summary of the work done by students enrolled in these classes at the University of South Florida, School of Information, a program accredited by the American Library Association. [14] Students were extraordinarily creative and without limits as they went through tutorials and became proficient at editing. [15] The outcome of the classes was that enrolled students are now creative contributors, skilled editors, and managers of content in Wikipedia. They are both librarians AND Wikipedians. ”

“ Information literacy combines a repertoire of abilities, practices, and dispositions focused on expanding one’s understanding of the information ecosystem, with the proficiencies of finding, using and analyzing information, scholarship, and data to answer questions, develop new ones, and create new knowledge, through ethical participation in communities of learning and scholarship. ”

“ For the human rights class a new entry was written for Clara Breed, a librarian in San Diego, California, remembered chiefly for her support for Japanese American children during World War II. This entry was featured in the 2/28/14 DYK section [18] and had over 8,137 visits in between time of creation and March, 2014. ”

“ These examples are intended to demonstrate the range of scholarship and creativity that graduate students accomplished as editors. Clearly, these are examples of solid work on which others can build and expand. Crowdsourcing by librarians is a strategy for extending our contributions to knowledge and especially to topics relating to books and libraries.
“Wikipedia and Knowledge Management” Course Overview LIS Course: “Wikipedia and Knowledge Management.”
A geographical, sociological and chronological overview of knowledge management beginning with the printed encyclopedia. ”

“ He went through the list and looked for basic things to improve: categories, citations, redirects, dates of birth/death, etc. For most leaders listed below additions and edits were made to improve and enhance their entry.
To get an idea of the kinds of changes made to these entries by Gamaliel a few examples are provided in the endnotes [23]
Library Associations
Library associations are not well represented in Wikipedia and adding and editing them could be a major focus for librarians who become Wikipedians. ”

“ List of librarians (Eliza Atkins Gleason) ↑ Category: Passed DYK nominations from February 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Passed_DYK_nominations_from_February_2014. Accessed May 25, 2014. ↑ User:Petercannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Petercannon_usf Accessed May 26, 2014. ↑ User:Gamaliel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gamaliel Accessed May 23, 2014. ↑ 100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century. (1999) . American Libraries, 30 (11) , 38. ↑ 100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century. ”