Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council/Scope

Dorothy Howard was the Metropolitan New York Library Council's Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data fellow from August 2013-April 2015. Dorothy provided consultation, project support, and technical advising on Wikipedia editing to the New York community. Dorothy gave lectures, trainings, consultation, event planning support, and advising on a variety of Wikipedia projects and events in the Regional U.S.


 * METRO's Wikipedian-in-Residence Summer, 2013, Position announcement.

Summer 2013-Spring 2015 Selected Institutional Engagement
Engagement in the form of consultations, presentations, staff trainings, Edit-a-thons, and other collaborations.
 * American Museum of Natural History Library
 * Avery Library and Burke Theological Library, Columbia University Libraries
 * Barnard Library
 * Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
 * Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute
 * Columbia University Libraries (Studio@Butler)
 * CUNY Graduate Center Mina Rees Library
 * Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
 * Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation
 * Guggenheim Museum of New York Library and Archive
 * International Center of Photography
 * Józef Piłsudski Institute of America Archives
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library
 * New York Botanic Garden Library
 * New York Public Library
 * * New York Public Library of the Performing Arts


 * Poet's House
 * Queens Public Library Central Branch
 * Weill Cornell Medical College Library
 * Whitney Museum of American Art Library

GLAM-Wiki Metro Members

 * GLAM/Museum of Modern Art
 * GLAM/New York Public Library
 * GLAM/QueensLibrary
 * GLAM/Leo Baeck Institute
 * GLAM/Frick
 * GLAM/Case studies/Brooklyn Museum
 * GLAM/Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
 * GLAM/Barnard College
 * GLAM/CJH
 * GLAM/Guggenheim Museum

Monthly New York City Reports posted in "This Month in GLAM"
• January 2015

• December 2014

• October 2014

• September 2014

• July 2014

• June 2014

• May 2014

• April 2014

• March 2014

• February 2014

• January 2014

• December 2013

• November 2013

• October 2013

• September 2013

The Center for Jewish History, CJH

 * Created a GLAM Page: GLAM/CJH
 * Hosted a Women in Jewish History Edit-a-Thon, May 2014.
 * "Center for Jewish History to Host 'Women in Jewish History' Edit-a-thon on May 4th." April 23, 2014.


 * Started an internal Wikipedia working group.
 * Other media:
 * Metropolitan Archivist article about Center archivists editing Wikipedia
 * Interview with Leanora Lange about editing Wikipedia at the Center

Frick Collection

 * Created a GLAM Page: GLAM/Frick.
 * Has incorporated Wikipedia Editing into the tasks of archivists and librarians. Specifically, they are improving the references to institutionally-relevant subjects and adding in links to their digitized books and collections where relevant.
 * Has donated upwards of 30 photographs from the Frick Art Reference Library to contribute to Wikipedia’s Biography pages.
 * "Adding Authority Archival Information to Wikipedia: An Interview at The Frick Collection." February 20th, 23014.

Guggenheim

 * Created a GLAM page: GLAM/Guggenheim Museum
 * Started a working group on Wikipedia
 * Held a mulch-departmental staff Wikipedia training
 * Held a Wikipedia training for all interns, started a project to have interns correct dead links to the Guggenheim’s digital collections on Wikipedia and improve Wikipedia’s references.
 * Contributing to articles about exhibitions and artworks.
 * Edit-a-thon, October, 2014.

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA

 * GLAM page: GLAM/Museum of Modern Art
 * Hosted, “Wikipedia Loves Art” a Wiki scavenger hunt and free content photography contest, in February 2009.
 * Held Wiki training workshops for MoMA and friends, getting together on a regular basis.
 * "MoMA Wikipedia 'Talk to Me' Edit-a-thon in 2011. The edit-a-thon was centered around filling in articles about their exhibition Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects which showed July 24 to November 7, 2011

Józef Piłsudski Institute of America

 * Created a GLAM Page: GLAM/Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
 * Held training for staff
 * Hosted Wikipedians-in-Residence
 * Donated images to Wikimedia Commons: Category:Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.

Metropolitan Museum’s Thomas J. Watson Library

 * Created GLAM page: GLAM/TJWL
 * After adding links to its digital holdings, over 50% of the traffic going to the library’s Digital Collections is referred by Wikipedia.
 * "Wikipedia for Special Collections: A Conversation with William Blueher of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Thomas J. Watson Library." November 13, 2013.

Barnard College & Columbia University

 * Created a GLAM Page: GLAM/Barnard College
 * "Barnard College and Columbia University 'Hack the Cannon' Adding Women's History to Wikipedia." April 2, 2014.