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The American Library Association is hosting two publicly promoted Wikipedia edit-a-thons during its annual ALA Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana. One will take place at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, and the other will take place at the Milton H. Latter Memorial Library. The theme of our edit-a-thon will be Women in Library History. All are all invited to come and try their hand at adding sources and editing Wikipedia.

To get started, please create an account and Wikipedia username, then RSVP in #Attendees.

Please bring a laptop if you can.

Event Information

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The American Library Association's Feminist Task Force, Social Responsibility Task Force, and ACRL's Women and Gender Studies Section have organized two edit-a-thon opportunities during the annual conference:

Saturday, June 23: Women of Library History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon I and II , 9:00-11:30am, MCC Room 264

Sunday, June 24: Women of Library History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon III: Working Party , 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Milton H. Latter Memorial Library, 5120 Saint Charles, 504-596-2625, http://nolalibrary.org/branch/10/milton-h-latter-memorial-library

Directions to the Milton H. Latter Memorial Library: The St Charles streetcar line will take you to the Milton H. Latter Memorial Library--go west toward the Garden District, stop at St Charles-Robert, and go to 5120 St Charles Ave.

To RSVP, please sign into the #Attendees section below!

Refreshments will be served at each event.

At these edit-a-thons, you will have the opportunity to work on improving or creating articles about women in library history, or any other topic that you may choose.

We'll help you get started. We'll have some librarians around to help you research and get you into the basics of Wikipedia editing.

*Any questions? Email Rachel at rswexelbaum@stcloudstate.edu or leave a message with RachelWex on her Talk page.

Where to start?

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Check out #Women in Library History or Wikipedia:WikiProject Libraries for lists of notable librarians and articles about libraries, archives, and museums that need work!

Not interested in libraries but want to improve or create content in your area of expertise? Search the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory to see what needs improvement!

Want to just add a quality citation or two to Wikipedia wherever you can? Try out the Citation Hunt page and search for different topics about women. They'll show you exactly where citations are needed and you take it from there!

Maybe you prefer writing and you'd rather get your feet wet with some copy editing? Here is a list of all the articles that need copy editing. Find one that relates to women or women's history, and see if you can clean up some of the content.

Women in Library History

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Articles that need improvement!


Women who need articles!

  1. Margaret Auer
  2. Louise Bailey
  3. Helen Ball
  4. Mary Ellen Bates
  5. Clare Beck
  6. Sara Bird Askew
  7. Jean P. Black
  8. Cyndi Bloom
  9. Ethel Martin Bolden
  10. Lily Lawrence Bow
  11. Eliza Gordon Browning
  12. Quintilla Geer Bruton
  13. Ella Buchanan (Librarian)
  14. Susan Dart Butler
  15. Carole Callard
  16. Jessie Carson
  17. Mary J. Carter
  18. Linda M. Clatworthy
  19. Joan Cole
  20. Wessie Gertrude Connell
  21. Eileen Doris Cooke
  22. Nora Evelyn Cordingley
  23. Debra Davis
  24. Josefina del Toro Fulladosa
  25. Marta L. Dosa
  26. Vera Douie
  27. Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey
  28. Everett Woman's Book Club
  29. Kathleen Farmann
  30. Frances Farmer (librarian)
  31. Carolyn W. Field
  32. Edith Ford
  33. Aurelia Elizabeth Whittington Franklin
  34. Ruth S. Freitag
  35. Charlyne Gadsden
  36. Gillis Girls
  37. Eliza Valeria Atkins Gleason
  38. Dorothy Peyton Gray
  39. Lilian Gunter
  40. Josephine Pardee Hallare
  41. Gretchen Hammerstein
  42. Inez Ratekin Herrig
  43. Olive Hoffman
  44. Laura Howey
  45. Mary Dengler Hudgins
  46. Ismoon Hunter-Morton
  47. Cynthia Hurd
  48. Esther Weaver Hurwitz
  49. Lora Hussey
  50. Gladys W. Jarrett
  51. Barbara Williams Jenkins
  52. Betty Jenkins
  53. Diane Gordon Kadanoff
  54. Anne Keating
  55. Ednita Kelly
  56. Ida Kidder
  57. Lucy Lee Lancaster
  58. Lora Lashbrook
  59. Marie Lawrence
  60. Sara R. Mack
  61. Alison Macrina
  62. Ora Maxwell
  63. Mary Mayfield
  64. Linda McPherson
  65. Mildred Miles
  66. Dharathula Millender
  67. Jean Barry Molz
  68. Christine Wigfall Morris
  69. Margaret Mott
  70. Maude Langhorne Nelson
  71. Eliza Des Saure Newell
  72. Jewel Nicholson
  73. Suzine Har Nicolescu
  74. Nancy Osborne
  75. Jane VanDike Patton
  76. Julia Roselle Pearce
  77. Lida Penfield
  78. Eva Perry
  79. Annie Petty
  80. Sylvia Piggott
  81. Wilma Radford
  82. Alice Damon Rider
  83. Mary “Topie” Utopia Rothrock
  84. Dorothy Esther Rowland
  85. Doris Rucks
  86. Linda Ryan
  87. Eva Santee
  88. Betty-Carol “BC” Sellen
  89. Agnes Sengstacken
  90. Beth J. Shapiro
  91. Sara L. Siebert
  92. Zelia Anne Smith
  93. Loretta Sorensen
  94. Susan Sosin
  95. Clara Gatzert Spiegel
  96. Eleanor Stevenson
  97. Mary Louise Stickley
  98. Marian Glenn Straw
  99. Maud Durlin Sullivan
  100. Nettie Taylor
  101. Mary Thompson Donlan
  102. Winifred Fleming Ticer
  103. Martha Trezpacz (or Trzepacz)
  104. Jane W. Turner
  105. Jane Van Arsdale
  106. Elva Van Winkle
  107. Vang Vang
  108. Esther J. Walls
  109. Genevieve M. Walton
  110. Annie Bell Weaver
  111. Clara Webber
  112. Allegra Westbrooks
  113. Mabel Zoe Wilson
  114. Women of Wyoming
  115. Frances Lydia Yocom
  116. Evelyn Zerzanek



Wikipedia resources

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Help:Introduction

Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide

Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wrap-up and more info

GLAM Beginner's Guide

Citation guide

Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

Portal:Current events

Rapid Grants - apply for money to support your editathons

Art+Feminism - good resources for learning to edit and organize editathons

Research Resources

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Attendees

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Results

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Below, list the articles that you've edited or added, so we can track our progress.

Articles Improved

Articles Created