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WikiProject Libraries

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Goals and scope

Goals

• Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
• Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to Wikimedia (especially literature-related sites) based on library experience
• Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
• Assist with categorization

Scope

This WikiProject covers all areas of library and information science, including (but not limited to):

• Libraries, librarians, and librarianship in all its aspects (historical, fictional, ancient to contemporary and beyond!).
• All areas of information science, including information organization, retrieval, search, access, and manipulation (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Computer Science).
• Archives, archivists, and archival science.
• Preservation and conservation of recorded information (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Museums).

To do

Article alerts and assessments

Automatically generated list of new articles with Library keywords

Article alerts

Proposed deletions

• 14 Jan 2021 – Biblioislam.net (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Rotideypoc41352 (t · c) was deleted
• 12 Jan 2021 – Muskoka Lakes Township Public Libraries (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JayJay (t · c) was redirected to Muskoka Lakes#Economy (talk · edit · hist)

Categories for discussion

• 13 Jan 2021 – Category:Music catalogues (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aza24 (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Jan 2021 – Category:Indigenous librarianship (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Place Clichy (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Dec 2020 – Category:Imperial Russian librarians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 21 Jan 2021 – Digitalisation (talk · edit · hist) →Digitization was RfDed by PEIsquirrel (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Jan 2021 – Digitalization (talk · edit · hist) →Digitization was RfDed by Domdeparis (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 19 Jul 2020 – Timothy S. Healy (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ergo Sum (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 10 Nov 2020 – Autonomous social center (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Self-managed social center by Mujinga (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 23 Nov 2020 – Bukbu Library (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Buk District, Daegu by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Sep 2020 – PKP Open Archives Harvester (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Public Knowledge Project#Software by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 21 Dec 2020 – Public libraries in North America (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by M2545 (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Mar 2019 – Pearson Education (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MureninC (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 05 Dec 2020 – Draft:Fabio Della Schiava (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Maffeovegio (t · c)

Museums and libraries AfDs

Museums and libraries Proposed Deletions

Article assessments

Display assessment table

Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article identification and assessment

• Identify, assess, and tag the talk pages of relevant articles using the {{WikiProject Libraries}} banner

• Provide assessment for unassessed articles for both quality and importance.

• Provide assessment for Libraries articles of unknown importance

Writing new articles

• Develop articles on Requested articles: Library science
• Develop articles on List of basic library and information science topics.
• See also content at LISWiki

Group collaboration

Collaborate for two months on a single article to develop it up to Featured Article status!

• Readers'_advisory - November/December 2009

Fact checking and adding sources

• See the Fact and reference check project.
• Add links to library special or digital collections to appropriate articles.
  • See Tacoma Narrows Bridge for an example.
  • See the presentation Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections.

See also

See also all subpages of WikiProject Libraries.

Cleanup

See the cleanup listing generated by CleanupWorklistBot.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Bibliographies
• WikiProject Biography/Science and academia - Science & academia biographies
• WikiProject History of Science
• WikiProject Academic Journals
• WikiProject Digital Preservation
• WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - host of the List of missing journals
• WikiProject Reference works

Additional resources

• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Category:Wikipedian librarians
• German Wikipedia: Library Reference Service
• COinS in Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:ISBN
• GLAM
• The Wikipedia Library
• {{Authority control}}

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation

• b:Introduction to Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin
• m:Wikicat
• v:Learning Project

External links

• Libweb - Library WWW Servers