Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/UMDLabor2017



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 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.

Please bring a brown bag lunch and your own laptop.

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This event is part of DC LaborFest 2017. Check out many more events to celebrate the labor movement!

When and Where
Friday, May 5, 2017, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

This event will take place at the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC

815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005

President's Room, 1st Floor

Attendees will be asked to show a Government issued ID when they enter the lobby

See the Google map for the location of the AFL-CIO.

Lunch can be purchased at nearby restaurants

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

Agenda

 * 12:00 PM - Welcome, Jen Eidson, Labor Collections Assistant Archivist, and Ben Blake, Labor Collections Archivist, UMD Libraries
 * 12:10 PM - Introduction to editing Wikipedia, Peter Meyer, Wikimedia DC
 * 12:25 PM – Navigation to online resources and handout copies of Labor’s Heritage journal
 * 12:40PM - 2:45 PM, Editing time
 * 2:45 PM - Wrap-up

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) Create and/or expand articles related to labor history in the greater Washington, DC region.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5) Update out-of-date references and citations for the George Meany Memorial Archive, now known as The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive at the University of Maryland Libraries.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
 * Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689 (Washington, DC)
 * 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
 * International Association of Siderographers
 * International Glove Workers Union
 * National Organizers Alliance

Individuals
 * Gordon H. Cole
 * George Harris
 * Nevada Jane Haywood
 * Lillian Herstein
 * Edward Levinson
 * Andrew Pettis
 * Michael Ross
 * Ted Selander
 * Danbury Shakes
 * Boris Shishkin
 * 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. Consider highlighting women in labor unions.

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

Individuals
 * Ralph Fasanella
 * Samuel Gompers
 * Chester Himes
 * Clara Lemlich
 * George Meany
 * Agnes Nestor
 * Rose Schneiderman
 * Ben Shahn
 * Maud Younger

Events
 * Colorado Coalfield War
 * Colorado Fuel and Iron
 * National Labor Relations Act
 * Newspaper delivery
 * Ludlow Massacre
 * Solidarnosc
 * The Workmen's Circle (Der Arbeiter Ring)

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

Scholarly Research Articles
* * indicates that the resource requires institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus 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 institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus 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 institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus 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 institutional (UMD or other research institution) log in or on-campus 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 [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 Labor History Collections
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

RSVP
Please indicate if you plan to attend by completing this RSVP.

Virtual editing is encouraged through the month of May!

We'd like to know if you:
 * Will Attend
 * Maybe Attending
 * Regrets
 * Will Attend Remotely

By Metrorail
The closest Blue/Orange/Silver Metro stop is McPherson Square, plus about three blocks to walk.

The closest Red line Metro stop is Farragut North, plus a one block walk.

Check out Metro's Trip Planner to plan your metro ride.

By Metro bus
Check out Metro's Trip Planner to plan your bus ride. Use this address in the destination field: 815 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005.

The S2, S4, and S9 stop on 16th street less than one block from the AFL-CIO Headquarters. Multiple buses stop on H street, also less than one block away.

Driving
Enter the following address into your GPS: 815 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005. The AFL-CIO Headquarters is less than a block north of Lafayette Square.

Parking
There are some public parking garages nearby. If you drive and park, be prepared to pay $15-$20.

Outcomes
Please list edits here for May 2017. Include link to page and brief phrase that summarizes your edit, such as "new article" or "added link to archival material."
 * Solidarity (Polish trade union) -- updated broken link
 * Samuel Gompers -- Added schools named for Gompers in Death/Legacy
 * Amalgamated Transit Union -- copyedit
 * Baltimore Federation of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union, and Tobacco Workers International Union -- added information about additional resources held at the UMD Labor History Collection
 * Alton Road -- added reference to Alton Local 377 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners America archives at UMD Labor History Collection
 * American Institute for Free Labor Development -- added citation to the UMD Labor History LibGuide mentioning the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (the name of the merged Center that includes the AIFLD)

See also:

2016 Edit-A-Thon

2015 Edit-A-Thon