Siân Evans (librarian)
Siân Evans | |
|---|---|
_-_Si%C3%A2n_Evans.jpg) Evans in 2016 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Librarian, activist, and Wikimedian |
| Known for | Co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Wikipedia |
Siân Evans is an American librarian, activist, and Wikimedian. She is co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Wikipedia. Evans is a librarian at Johns Hopkins University.
Career
[edit]Evans is co-founder of Art+Feminism, a global campaign that challenges gender bias on Wikipedia.[1][2] Evans notes that as part of Art+Feminism, "we do concrete work – adding citations to pages, expanding coverage of women in the arts – but, we also understand these events as platforms for consciousness raising and hopefully strategies for change emerge from that."[3] Evans is the Online Programs Librarian at Sheridan Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University.[4]
In 2014, Evans was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers.[5]
Evans' research and writing on digitally focused gender equity has been published in Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America and in the book Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond.[6] She is part of the Art Libraries Society of North America’s Women and Art Special Interest Group.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hoban, Virgie. "Campus community tackles gender gap on Wikipedia during Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon". Berkeley Library News. University of California. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ Greenberger, Alex (9 February 2017). "MoMA Announces Fourth Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon". ArtNews. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ Driscoll, Brogan (31 March 2016). "Rewriting Wikipedia: Feminists Are Finally Giving Female Artists The Online Recognition They Deserve". Huffington Post. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ "Academic Liaison". Sheridan Libraries. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014". Foreign Policy Magazine. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ Informed agitation : library and information skills in social justice movements and beyond. Morrone, Melissa. Sacramento, California. ISBN 9781634000031. OCLC 889313887.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Emory, Sami (18 April 2016). "Breaking Records at Art+Feminism's Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon". Creators. Vice. Retrieved August 23, 2018.