Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Colorado

Local contacts


GLAM-Wikipedian contacts
 * User:Gaurav (email me!) in Boulder, Colorado
 * Graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

WikiProject Colorado
 * Post a note on the Talk page explaining that you're looking for a local Wikipedian to help with a GLAM project.

Campus Ambassadors
 * For the Campus Ambassador program, Colorado is located in U.S. Region 8 (Skyplains).
 * Regional Ambassador: Richard Jensen (email Richard)

Current Colorado GLAM-Wiki partnerships

 * The Junius Henderson Field Notebook Project
 * This project uses Wikisource to publish the field notebooks of Junius Henderson, the first curator of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
 * Contacts on Wikipedia: User:Ack-thom, User:Robgur, User:Gaurav

Press for Colorado GLAM-Wiki partnerships

 * The Curation of Collaboration: Experiments in Mobilizing Museum Archives, Center for the Future of Museums blog, February 7, 2012.

Major institutions
• In Denver, Colorado:

• Denver Art Museum

• Colorado History Museum

• Children's Museum of Denver

• Denver Museum of Nature and Science

• Denver Botanic Gardens

• Denver Public Library

• In Boulder, Colorado:

• Boulder Public Library

• Norlin Library

• University of Colorado Museum of Natural History

• At Fort Collins, Colorado:

• Fort Collins Museum and Discovery Science Center

• Fort Collins Public Library

• Others:

• Arapahoe Library District

• Colorado Railroad Museum

• Dinosaur National Monument

• Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

• National Mining Hall of Fame

Professional organizations

 * History Colorado is an agency of the state of Colorado "offers the public access to cultural and heritage resources of Colorado, including statewide museums and special programs for individuals and families, collection stewardship of Colorado’s historic treasures, educational resources for schools, students and teachers, services related to preservation, archaeology and history, and the Stephen H. Hart research library" (from their About Us page).
 * Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums
 * Mountain Plains Museums Association