User talk:John D Boggs

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I took a look at this edit. By "San Mateo County Library" it means a library system and not a single library. Kindly consult the website http://wayback.archive.org/*/http://www.smcl.org/ - This is not a website of a single library, but that of the library system of all of San Mateo County. The old name of the system as "San Mateo County Library".

Also the website of PLS does refer to the branches as "members" http://www.plsinfo.org/node/4804 but do the municipalities actually operate the branches? WhisperToMe (talk) 22:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, San Mateo County Library is a library system, and it's a part of PLS. You can see this at the live (not archived) County Library System website, http://www.smcl.org/
 * Also, the PLS webpage is at http://www.plsinfo.org and it explains some more the relationships.
 * Basically, PLS is a consortium of all the public library systems in San Mateo County, and also the libraries in the San Mateo County Community College District. Each of these library jurisdictions is independent, but they cooperate as a consortium and share an online catalog.
 * The jurisdictions are San Mateo County (which contains several branches in different cities), Burlingame, Daly City, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Mateo Public Library (the city library), South San Francisco, and the colleges Skyline, College of San Mateo, and Canada.
 * I work for PLS as their database manager, and I've read Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest pages. I need to figure out how to make it clear that I fall into this category -- I don't want to create any issues around trust -- though I do feel that the edits I made today are factual and not blowing anybody's horn.
 * Thank you for reaching out!
 * John D Boggs (talk) 02:58, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for providing the page. I thought it had merged because User:Thisbites redirected the pages back in 2011. I will get to work fixing the English and Spanish pages and making a Chinese page. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I have re-separated the English page San Mateo County Library. By seeing the website I now know they are indeed separate! I will get to work on the Spanish and Chinese pages. It may be good to let your Spanish and Chinese-speaking coworkers know about them once they are ready.
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 18:10, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The fixed Spanish page is online: es:Biblioteca del Condado de San Mateo. I will get to work on the Chinese page shortly. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:18, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help! I will let people know who might be interested.
 * John D Boggs (talk) 18:59, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! Please ask your Chinese coworkers to proofread/look at zh:聖馬刁縣立圖書館 (the Chinese page on the library system that I set up). I live in China right now but I'm still getting a handle on the language... (I am aware that the page uses a mix of Simplified and Traditional scripts - the Chinese Wikipedia uses a computer program to convert text from one type to another) WhisperToMe (talk) 21:13, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Another idea: If you know people interested in this, they can upload freely-licensed photographs of all SMCL libraries to the Wikimedia Commons, and these pictures can be used in any Wikipedia article in any language. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I believe we have photos of each library on the plsinfo website. I'll talk to our photographer.
 * John D Boggs (talk) 21:49, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, John! Is the library photographer still interested? WhisperToMe (talk) 16:12, 28 January 2017 (UTC)