Hello Blog Readers,
You may remember a few months ago the blog highlighted the work of Dr. Kathleen McCook and students in creating open access essays about library history on wikipedia, including Dr. McCook’s article for The Progressive Librarian, “Librarians as Wikipedians: From Library History to Librarianship and Human Rights”.
On this note, wikipedia has a category for historians of libraries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historians_of_libraries
However, there are many notable scholars of library history missing from the category because no wikipedia entry exists about them. In particular, historians from underrepresented groups are missing.
We are writing to encourage others to consider writing about a library historian on wikipedia. To help encourage and organize our efforts, we created a page at https://lhrt.news/library-historians-on-wikipedia/
Thanks for considering!
***For LIS faculty: Please email Dr. McCook (klmccook@gmail.com) if you might be interested in talking with her about implementing a wikipedia authorship project in your class.