Wikipedia:GLAM/SLIC/Library Partners

Overview
Over an 18 months period, the SLIC Wikimedian in residence facilitated training on how to edit Wikipedia and contribute to its sister open knowledge projects for a total of 162 librarians across 23 Scottish local authorities. The gender ratio of the participants was 75.31% female.

The project was funded by the Public Library Improvement Fund (PLIF), so priority for training was given to public librarians (73.45% of total librarians trained), but opportunities were also offered to public library partners across the library profession including school librarians, HE and FE librarians, specialist librarians, health librarians and law librarians.



In the past 6 months, the project has culminated with a Train the Trainer programme specifically tailored for librarians to enable them to deliver their own Wikipedia related activities with their local library users. A total of 32 librarians have taken up this opportunity from 9 local authorities and will constitute a network across Scotland delivering consistent high quality training and able to collaborate across the library sector as well as with other partners from the Scottish Wikimedia community.



Throughout the residency, a total of 10 editathons were delivered with support from the SLIC Wikimedian in Residence and a further 7 are currently in planning by librarians who have undertaken the Train the Trainer programme. To date, a total of 45 library users have been trained to edit Wikipedia during these events and 55 new articles on Scottish history and culture have been added to Wikipedia using sources from the libraries' rich collections.

Aberdeenshire
The lead contact for this service is Jacque97.

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 * Montrose Library
 * Lindsay Institute
 * Will Anderson (animator)

Angus
The lead contact for this service is PippyF.

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 * Katy Dove
 * Improved Glasgow Women's Library

City of Dundee
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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 * The Howff
 * Ruth Ewan

East Dunbartonshire
The lead contact for this service is MJWest01.

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 * Watt Library
 * Ceara Conway
 * Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay

East Lothian
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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East Renfrewshire
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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City of Edinburgh
The lead contact for this service is Online Librarian.

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 * Penelope Beaton
 * Denise Bennetts
 * Donald Moodie (painter)
 * Robert Heriot Westwater
 * Peter Wylie Davidson
 * Gillian K. Ferguson
 * Morelle Smith
 * Helena Nelson
 * Magi Gibson

Falkirk
The lead contact for this service is NaomiFK.

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 * Improved RAF Grangemouth

Fife
The lead contact for this service is SaraFife.

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 * Wemyss School of Needlework
 * Alexander Macansh
 * Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
 * Improved Central Library, Edinburgh
 * De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar

Glasgow
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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 * Tobacco Merchant's House
 * Hazelwood House, Scotland
 * Couper Institute Library
 * Improved Britannia Music Hall
 * Red Skirts on Clydeside
 * Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
 * Violet Mary Craig Roberton
 * Margaret McPhun
 * Peter Wylie Davidson

Highlands
The lead contacts for this service are Hazelraee and Shona Skye.

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 * Keg de Souza
 * Morag Henriksen
 * Anne Martin (Gaelic singer)
 * Otta F Swire
 * Ann MacKinnon
 * Alexandrina Matilda MacPhail
 * Grissel Jaffray
 * Heather Heywood
 * Eilidh Watt
 * Aberdeen Artists Society

Inverclyde
The lead contacts for this service are ColinDunc and AllyIrl.

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 * Marie Lamont
 * Maggie McIver
 * Sophie Gerrard

Midlothian
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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 * Elspeth Lamb

North Ayrshire
The lead contact for this service is Jmccoll1968.

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North Lanarkshire
The lead contact for this service is RussellWBrown.

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 * Shotts Iron Works

Moray
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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 * Agnes Kelly Robertson

Perth and Kinross
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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 * Marcella Evaristi

Scottish Borders
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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 * Stobs Military Camp
 * David Harding
 * Elspeth King

South Ayrshire
The lead contact for this service is Citadelscribe.

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 * Improved Muirhead Bone
 * Improved Ayr
 * Improved Oban

South Lanarkshire
The lead contact for this service is Scobro13.

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 * Falkirk Public Library

Shetland Islands
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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Stirling
The lead contact for this service is RosieMA13.

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 * Shetland Library
 * The Strickland Press
 * Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5

West Dunbartonshire
There is no lead contact for this local authority.

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 * Stella Jane Reekie