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Celebrating 1lib1ref 2017 at the MIT Libraries!

How-to

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How to Participate: Five Basic Steps

  1. Find an article that needs a citation. There are many ways to do this. Here are some strategies.
  2. Find a reliable source that can support that article
  3. Add a citation using Wikipedia Style. Click here to learn about adding citations and editing Wikipedia
  4. Add the project hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the Wikipedia Edit Summary
  5. Share your edit on social media and learn more about libraries and Wikipedia. Grab a userbox for your user page if you're into that sort of thing.

Sample articles and possible sources

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  • Anita K. Jones - American computer scientist and former U.S. government official. She was Director, Defense Research and Engineering from 1993 to 1997.
    • This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations.
  • Phyllis Fox - (born 1923) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.
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  • Nai-Chang Yeh - a Taiwanese American physicist specializing in experimental condensed matter physics.
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  • MIT in popular culture
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  • Edwin Blashfield
    • The man responsible for the murals in Walker Memorial
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  • Library anxiety
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  • American Society of Civil Engineers
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  • C. Robert Wieser - MIT electrical engineer and developer of electrical and computing technology
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  • Mary Morrill - the maternal grandmother of Benjamin Franklin
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  • Heisuke Hironaka - a Japanese mathematician
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  • James Rhyne Killian - 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959.
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  • Daughters of St. Crispin - an American labor union of women shoemakers, and the first national women's labor union in the United States
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  • Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934) - nationally-noted antiquarian, collector, and interior decorator.
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A few sources of biographies

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