User:Bridges2Information

About me
I am a librarian at a university in the United States. I began using Wikipedia as a tool for teaching information literacy skills in 2019. I am a co-founder of the Wikimedia campaign #EveryBookItsReader.

Publications
Park, D., & Bridges, L.M. Meet students where they are: Centering Wikipedia in the classroom. Communications in Information Literacy.

Bridges, L.M., Llebot, C. (June, 2021). Librarians as Wikimedia Movement Organizers in Spain: An interpretive inquiry exploring activities and motivations, First Monday (26)6/7. En español Los bibliotecarios como organizadores del movimiento Wikimedia en España : una investigación interpretiva que explora las actividades y sus motivaciones

Bridges, L.M., Pun, R., and Arteaga, R. (Eds). Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project. Maize Books, Michigan.

Bridges, L.M., & Dowell, M.L., (2020, January). A perspective on Wikipedia: Approaches for educational use. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(1)

Dowell, M.L., & Bridges, L.M. (2019). A perspective on Wikipedia: Your students are here, why aren't you? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 45(2), 81-83.

Bridges, L.M., Park, D., & Edmunson-Morton, T. K. (2019). Writing African American history into Wikipedia. OLA Quarterly, 25(2), 16-21.

Instructor
2023 2021 2020 2019

Events Co-Hosted
Writing Black History of the PNW into Wikipedia, Editathon, February 2022

Women in STEM, Editathon, March 2021

Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia, Editathon, February 2021

Writing African American History into Wikipedia, Editathon, February 2020

Writing African American History into Wikipedia, Editathon, February 2019

Wikipedia Articles Created
Articles created by me.