Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Librarians@Pratt Spring 2016

A Librarians @ Pratt Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Spring 2016) will take place at Pratt Institute's Manhattan campus on Saturday, February 27th, 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 fourth in a series of edit-a-thons hosted by Pratt SILSSA to foster LIS student engagement on Wikipedia.

Previous Events edit

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.

Details edit

Hosts: Pratt School of Information Student Association (SILSSA)
Date: Saturday, February 27th, 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 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 edit

Resources edit

Editing Wikipedia

Wikipedia's Principles

Outside Resources

Dropbox of Sources - Mostly biographical
List of Pages to Edit

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Binnorie (talk) 06:26, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Akholland97 (talk) 18:59, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Rikki.a.p (talk) 18:59, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Samsterhamster (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Emjackson42 (talk) 19:00, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anarchyshake (talk) 19:01, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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