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GLAM Connect is a space where US cultural professionals can find Wikimedians who can assist with GLAM-WIKI partnerships.
 Cultural professionals: Browse the below sections to see who might be the best fit for your project. See the listing of GLAM resources by state for specific ways to connect.
- Wikimedians: Sign up in the sections that relate to your interests or help by creating an information page for your state.
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Before you start
Information by state
We encourage cultural professionals to see what resources are available in your state. This list will connect you with:
- WikiProjects (and Wikipedia volunteers) associated with your state
- Local organizations who have carried out partnerships
- Local Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors (student volunteers)
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Outreach volunteers
The following US-based Wikimedians are willing to meet with nearby cultural organizations on-site, run outreach workshops, or help coordinate other Wikimedia-related events and projects.
For local regions with established chapters, you can contact Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC.
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Location
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Affiliation
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Skills
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Interests
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| Lori Phillips (Email)
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Indianapolis, IN
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US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator / Wikipedian in Residence, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
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Strategic planning, project plan development, documentation, staff outreach, public programming.
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Museum studies, social studies education, 19th century world history
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| Sarah Stierch (Email)
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Washington, D.C.
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Community Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation / Wikipedian in Residence, Smithsonian Institution
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Program development, outreach, strategic planning, public speaking, workshops, documentation, research
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Women's issues, Native American history and contemporary issues
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| Andrew Lih (Email)
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Los Angeles, CA
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Associate professor, University of Southern California; Wikipedia administrator
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Strategic planning, outreach, public speaking, workshops, technical training, multimedia production, video, audio, photography
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Public art, iconic architecture, history of media/technology, journalism, East Asia, Asian American issues/history
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| FloNight(Sydney Poore) (Email)
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Saint Augustine, FL
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Strategic planning, outreach, content creation (editing WMF projects).
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United States History, historical buildings, women's issues.
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| Richard Knipel (Email)
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New York City, NY
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President, Wikimedia New York City, Wikipedian in Residence (2011), Museum of Modern Art, Wikipedia administrator
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Strategic planning, staff outreach, workshops, Wikipedia United States Education Program.
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United States and world history, libraries, anthropology, science, technology in education.
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| Pete Forsyth (email)
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San Francisco CA & Portland OR
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Principal, Wiki Strategies consulting
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Designer and strategic planner of Wikipedia-related projects.
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| Jane Park (email)
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New York, NY & San Francisco, CA
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Communications Manager, Creative Commons / Course Designer & Organizer and Founding Volunteer, Peer 2 Peer University - currently initiating the School of Open
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Creative Commons licenses, public domain tools, related best practices and implementation.
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Open Education and Culture.
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| Jim Hayes (email)
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Washington, D.C.
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Engineer, management consultant
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Strategic planning, outreach, content creation
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Public Art, National Register of Historic Places, Fine Arts, American History, History of Technology
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| Djembayz (email)
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Washington, D.C.
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Librarian
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Content creation and categorization, outreach, Scan-a-Thons
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Sailing ships, Federal Art Project, Native Americans, small towns/rural areas, Global South
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| McGhiever (email)
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St. Paul, MN
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Librarian, Minnesota Library Futures Initiative
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Public speaking, scenario planning, facilitation
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Libraries, protected areas
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| Q Miceli (Email)
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Princeton, NJ; Northwestern NJ; Washington, D.C.
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Religion major at Princeton University; Technical Services Student Worker at Princeton University Mudd Manuscript Library
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Event planning, archival outreach
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Writing, archives/libraries, religion, anthropology, baking, archives technology
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| Dominic (Email)
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Boston, MA
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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives and Records Administration; Library science (archives concentration) grad student, Simmons College
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Event planning, archives.library outreach, GLAM strategy
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archives/libraries, history (esp. Latin America), Wikisource (transcription)
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| Gaurav (Email)
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Boulder, CO
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Graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder
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Editing, organizing events
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Natural history museums, taxonomy, biology
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| Chris Leeder (Email)
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Ann Arbor, MI
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Doctoral student, School of Information, University of Michigan
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Writing and editing, documentation, outreach to libraries
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Information literacy, computer-supported collaborative learning, library reference services
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| Smallbones (Email)
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Philadelphia, PA
Cape May, NJ
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Listening and planning, content creation (writing and photography), getting results
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History, architecture, art; esp. National Register of Historic Places, public art
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| Asaf Bartov (Email)
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San Francisco, CA
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Library metadata, partnership planning, public speaking, training
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FRBR etc., Linked Data, semantic cataloguing, ancient Greek, Hebrew literature
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Online Volunteers
| The following Wikimedians are willing to assist with coordinating cooperative projects online, either leading in a project or offering various support (basic questions, template creation, upload and category management, WikiProject maintenance.)
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- Note: This list is US-focused. For information on global volunteers and projects see...
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Skills
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Interests
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| Preston Stone (Email)
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Technical/web development, project planning, copy editing
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American literature, poetry, science history, American history, classical languages
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| PKM (talk) (Email)
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WikiProject setup, project and Commons templates, light image manipulation, categorization, research, citations.
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Textiles, costume, Elizabethan England, Pre-Raphaelites, illustration, typography, Arthuriana
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Institutional contacts
| The following is a list of institutional contacts. If you are a GLAM professional that has worked closely with Wikipedia and would be willing to be contacted by prospective GLAM partners, please add yourself to the list below!
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Professional organizations
| The Professional Organizations Contacts page lists national, regional, and state-based organizations that already have a contact with the GLAM-Wiki community. If your professional organization has a listed contact, we encourage you to reach out to that individual. If you are interested in being a contact, please add yourself to the list.
Professional Organizations Contacts
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