Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/UMDLabor2016



Celebrate International Labour Day by joining a community interested in promoting labor history by editing the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Part celebration and part workshop, help us build awareness and increase visibility of our labor collections and expand page content for labor subjects, individuals, and organizations. We’ll draw content from labor-related collections at the University of Maryland, including the recently acquired AFL-CIO Archives. No editing experience necessary, however ability to use computers and search the internet is necessary. You’ll receive complimentary issues of Labor’s Heritage journal.

A tour of The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive begins at 4:00 PM.

RSVP here!

Please bring your own laptops.

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This event is part of DC LaborFest 2016. Check out many more events to celebrate the labor movement!

When and Where
Sunday, May 15, 2016, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

This event will take place at the University of Maryland's Hornbake Library, North: Library Media Services, Room 0302H (Ground Floor)

See the Google map for the location of Hornbake.

Those unable to attend in person are invited to become Wikipedia editors, and edit pages listed in our goals below.

A tour of the AFL-CIO Archive begins at 4:00pm

Agenda

 * 1:30 PM - Welcome, Jen Eidson, Labor Collections Archivist, and Ben Blake, Special Collection Librarian for Labor Studies, UMD Libraries
 * 1:40 PM - Introduction to editing Wikipedia, Peter Meyer, Wikimedia DC
 * 1:55 PM – Navigation to online resources and handout copies of Labor’s Heritage journal
 * 2:10PM - 3:45 PM, Editing time
 * 3:45 PM - Wrap-up
 * 4:00 PM – Tour of AFL-CIO Archive

Goals
The UMD Labor History Edit-A-Thon will offer a selection of resources for attendees to:


 * 1) Use Labor’s Heritage journal sources to contribute to targeted articles.
 * 2) Create and/or expand articles pertaining to archival labor collections from the University of Maryland’s Special Collections in Labor History & Workplace Studies.
 * 3) Add external links to finding aids from University of Maryland's Special Collections.  Finding aids can be found in  ArchivesUM our finding aid database, specifically in the Labor in America guide.
 * 4) Update out-of-date references and citations for the George Meany Memorial Archive, now known as The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive at the University of Maryland Libraries.

Please place a next to an article to indicate that edits were made; the mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.

Articles to create
Organizations
 * The George Meany Memorial Archive (National Labor College) Please update all references found to this: The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive, University of Maryland Libraries
 * Baltimore Federation of Labor
 * Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
 * International Association of Siderographers
 * International Glove Workers Union
 * National Organizers Alliance
 * Tobacco Workers International Union
 * Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries (AWCS) -- referred to on three articles, e.g. Anne Godwin ; sources:, a few here: Working Class Movement Library search, British archives 1, British archives 2

Individuals
 * Gordon H. Cole
 * George Harris
 * Nevada Jane Haywood
 * Lillian Herstein
 * Edward Levinson
 * Homer Martin (labor leader)
 * Andrew Pettis
 * Michael Ross
 * Ted Selander
 * Danbury Shakes
 * Boris Shishkin
 * Martha Tabor
 * Jiří Veltruský/Paul Barton
 * Milton P. Webster

Events
 * Tacoma Union Movement

Publications
 * AFL-CIO News
 * American Federationist
 * Labor Presses: Norwegian; Danish; German; Jewish; Finns; Slovakian and Croatian; Russian

Articles to expand or revise
At a minimum, please add external link to finding aid in ArchivesUM or a citation to Labor's Heritage journal.

Organizations
 * AFL–CIO
 * Alton Railroad
 * Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
 * Brookwood Labor College
 * Cigar Makers' International Union
 * Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
 * International Labor Communications Association
 * Jewish Labor Committee
 * National Labor College
 * United Automobile Workers
 * University of Maryland Libraries
 * Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill
 * Bureau of Business Practice
 * American Institute for Free Labor Development
 * Graduate student employee unionization

Individuals
 * Ralph Fasanella
 * Samuel Gompers
 * Chester Himes
 * Clara Lemlich
 * George Meany
 * Agnes Nestor
 * Rose Schneiderman
 * Ben Shahn
 * Maud Younger
 * Anne Godwin -- improve sourcing and remove warning

Events Publications
 * 1926 Passaic textile strike
 * Colorado Coalfield War
 * Colorado Fuel and Iron
 * National Labor Relations Act
 * Newspaper delivery
 * Ludlow Massacre
 * The Workmen's Circle (Der Arbeiter Ring)
 * Labor's Heritage journal

Web access
The Library will have wireless guest accounts for participants. Please bring your own laptop.

Scholarly Research Articles
* * indicates that the resource requires UMD log in or on-site access.
 * WorldCat via University of Maryland
 * Google Scholar
 * JSTOR * *
 * Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) * *
 * America: History and Life with Full Text (Ebsco) * *
 * EconLit * *
 * ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text * *

Encyclopedias
* * indicates that the resource requires UMD log in or on-site access.
 * Historical Encyclopedia of American Business * *
 * Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History * *
 * Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America * *
 * American National Biography * *

Union Publications
* * indicates that the resource requires UMD log in or on-site access.
 * The AFL-CIO News (1955-1996)
 * The Carpenter Magazine
 * Cigar Makers' Official Journal * *
 * Additional labor publications online at HathiTrust * *

Newspapers
* * indicates that the resource requires UMD log in or on-site access.
 * America’s Historical Newspapers * *
 * ProQuest Historical Newspapers * *
 * Library of Congress Chronicling America
 * The Baltimore Sun (1837-1988) * *
 * The Washington Post * *
 * The New York Times * *
 * Financial Times Historical Archive * *

Archival Resources @ UMD

 * Labor History Research Guide
 * AFL-CIO archive "Guide to Collections"
 * Guides to non-AFL-CIO labor collections
 * Digitized labor materials

Access databases with your public library card: The Baltimore Sun and some other newspaper archives on ProQuest can also be accessed with a Maryland Library card. Here, for example is a list of databases accessible with a card from [|Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library] system. Here is a similar list for members of the PG County Library. If you live in Maryland you can get a library card in either of these systems and in most others around the state. If you live in the District of Columbia or Virginia you can get a library card in PG County and some other systems in southern Maryland.

Archival and manuscript collections
This Edit-A-Thon will focus on creating and expanding articles for archival collections at the University of Maryland. Links to collection information and finding aids can be found here: ArchivesUM: Labor in America

Basics on editing Wikipedia

 * Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup
 * Editing - The Basics has .pdf handouts and videos
 * Wikipedia Training, Includes a one-hour training for newcomers, and more extensive pages for teachers and Wikipedia Ambassadors
 * Wikipedia Tutorial is a hands-on approach that walks you through various aspects of Wikipedia editing

About Special Collections in Labor History & Workplace Studies
Our labor collections are comprised of AFL-CIO Department records, trade department records, international union records, union programs, union organizations with allied or affiliate relationships with the AFL-CIO, and personal papers of union leaders. We also have extensive photo documentation of labor union activities from the 1940s to the present in the photographic negative and digital collections. Additionally, collections of graphic images, over 10,000 audio tapes, several hundred films and videotapes, and over 2,000 artifacts are available for research and study.

http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/guides/labor

Guide to Labor Collections at University of Maryland

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By Metrorail
The Green/Yellow line Metro includes a stop in College Park. The Green train stops in College Park all day. The Yellow line only stops in College Park during rush hour service, 6:30 AM-9:00 AM and 3:30 PM-6:00 PM. You can use the Metro Trip Planner to determine travel times.

The College Park Metro stop is about a mile-and-a-half from the University of Maryland campus. The University provides a shuttle to and from the Metro station that runs every ten minutes. The shuttle is number 104 and it picks up in the circle right at the top of the station escalator. See the University Department of Transportation Services page for more information.

By Metro bus
The University of Maryland is serviced by the following Metrobuses:
 * C2 - between the Twinbrook and Greenbelt Metro stations
 * C8 - between the White Flint and College Park Metro stations
 * J4 - between the Bethesda and College Park Metro stations
 * F6 - between the Fort Totten and New Carrollton Metro stations

The buses all pick up and drop off at a station on Campus Drive, two blocks from Hornbake Library.

Driving
The University of Maryland campus faces Route 1 / Baltimore Avenue and is two and a half miles south from exit 25A off the Capitol Beltway (I-495).

Campus Drive runs through the middle of campus and right in front of Hornbake Library. You can access Campus Drive from the east side of campus by turning off of Baltimore Avenue / Route 1 at the campus main entrance at the intersection of Baltimore Ave., Paint Branch Parkway and Campus Drive. If approaching the University from the west side of campus, access Campus Drive at the intersection of University Boulevard East and Adelphi Road.

See the Google Map of the University for more information.

Parking
Visitor parking is available in the Regents Drive Parking Garage just north of Hornbake Library. Rates are $3.00 per hour, with a $15.00 per day maximum. See the University of Maryland, Department of Transportation Visitor Parking page for more information.

Parking is also available off campus at the College Park city public parking garage at the corner of at Yale Avenue and Knox Road at a rate of $.75/hour. The public parking garage is about a ten minute walk from Hornbake Library. See the College Park Downtown Parking Garage page for more information.

Outcomes

 * Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries -- new article
 * Postdoctoral researcher unionization -- new article
 * Tobacco Workers International Union -- new article
 * Baltimore Federation of Labor -- new article
 * Anne Godwin -- refs and links
 * Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff -- wikilinks
 * United Farm Workers -- linked to archive
 * Cigar Makers' International Union -- added info on peak membership
 * ‎Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America -- added information
 * Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union -- links to archival materials, earlier union
 * Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard -- added link to archival material
 * Graduate student employee unionization -- added a see also article
 * Clara Lemlich -- footnotes
 * Easton, Maryland -- expanded history with archive material