Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/LIS697

Gender & LIS Edit-a-thon

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When and Where
Date and Time	June 4th, 3:00pm - 7:00pm
City, State	New York City, New York

This meetup is attached to the course, Gender and Intersectionality in LIS Practice, taught by Professor Jessica Hochman at the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science.

Course Information

Instructor: Jessica Hochman, PhD

From the syllabus:

Within the SILS community, and the profession writ large, there is an ongoing need for an examination of gender within the field. This course will address concerns around gender and its intersections with race, class and sexual orientation.

The course is project-based and engages students in reflective practice. Each week students will engage in a workshop that builds on the week’s readings, centered around a theme related to the LIS field. These workshops will infuse considerations of gender and intersectionality into traditional areas of study within the information professions. Students in the course will therefore practice several typical library practices in innovative ways through the lens of gender.

Readings and Resources

• The Encyclopedia Must Fail… Notes on Queering Wikipedia: Noopur Raval (available open access)
• McCook, K. P. (2014). Librarians as Wikipedians. Progressive Librarian, (42), 61-81. (available open access)
• Carstensen, T. 'Gender Trouble in Web 2.0. Gender Perspectives on Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs.' International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology 1(1).(available open access)
• Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). (Re)triggering backlash: Responses to news of Wikipedia’s gender gap, Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(4), 284-303 (toll access)

• Wiki Markup Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
• WP:Notability (people)

Event Participation

Due to space limitations, in-person participation is restricted to enrolled course members. Online participation is open to all!

In-Person Participants

• Megs (talk) 14:43, 30 May 2015 (UTC) (Facilitator)
• Anarchyshake (talk) 21:31, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
• Drhandel (talk) 19:28, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
• Orborax (talk) 19:55, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
• Libhapabruin (talk) 19:55, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
• Adhochman (talk) 19:58, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Online Participants

Join us!

Articles to Edit

• Librarian
• Queer Theory
• Cataloging
• Melvil Dewey
• Articles tagged with Category:Librarians. To find one, simply search Category:Librarians above.

Articles to Create

• Courtney Young, President of ALA
• Radical Reference

View other past presidents on ALA's website.

• Barnard Zine Collection

Outcomes

• Helen E. Haines - added selected works, external links
• Courtney Young (librarian) - created!
• Librarian - replaced image to more accurately represent librarians
• Librarian - restructured and added content to the Gender and Librarianship in the United States section.
• Womanism - added WorldCat links to Further Reading section
• Queer Theory - added citations to Overview section, and linked some references to worldcat.
• Library instruction - added a section on critical library instruction.