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WikiProject Libraries

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Goals and scope

Goals

• Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
• Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to Wikimedia (especially literature-related sites) based on library experience
• Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
• Assist with categorization

Scope

This WikiProject covers all areas of library and information science, including (but not limited to):

• Libraries, librarians, and librarianship in all its aspect (historical, fictional, ancient to contemporary and beyond!).
• All areas of information science, including information organization, retrieval, search, access, and manipulation (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Computer Science).
• Archives, archivists, and archival science.
• Preservation and conservation of recorded information (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Museums).

To do

Article alerts and assessments

Automatically generated list of new articles with Library keywords

Article alerts

Notice: The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey is over, thanks to everyone who supported our proposal! We'll keep you posted of developments.

Proposed deletions

• 25 Dec 2017 – Steam Powered Preservation Society (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Premeditated Chaos (t · c) was deleted

Featured list candidates

• 21 Dec 2017 – List of Presidents of the New York Public Library (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Eddie891 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 25 Dec 2017 – Lenox Library (New York City) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Eddie891 (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Apr 2017 – Easton Area Public Library (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Semmendinger (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 29 Nov 2017 – Phillips Exeter Academy Library (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Alphalfalfa (t · c); see discussion

Article assessments

Libraries articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA			1	2		3
FL		1	2	1		4
GA	3	1	4	29		37
B	4	14	31	100		149
C	7	18	100	307		432
Start	8	58	357	2,876		3,299
Stub	1	12	90	2,077		2,180
List	5	5	109	300		419
Category					1,338	1,338
Disambig					17	17
File					35	35
Portal		1				1
Project					20	20
Template					43	43
NA				1	63	64
Other				1	2	3
Assessed	28	110	694	5,694	1,518	8,044
Total	28	110	694	5,694	1,518	8,044
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7004318590000000000♠31,859			Ω = 5.22

Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article identification and assessment

• Identify, assess, and tag the talk pages of relevant articles using the {{WikiProject Libraries}} banner

• Provide assessment for unassessed articles for both quality and importance.

• Provide assessment for Libraries articles of unknown importance

Writing new articles

• Develop articles on Requested articles: Library sciences
• Develop articles on List of basic library and information science topics.
• See also content at LISWiki

Group collaboration

Collaborate for two months on a single article to develop it up to Featured Article status!

• Readers'_advisory - November/December 2009

Fact checking and adding sources

• See the Fact and reference check project.
• Add links to library special or digital collections to appropriate articles.
  • See Tacoma Narrows Bridge for an example.
  • See the presentation Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections.

See also

See also all subpages of WikiProject Libraries.

Cleanup

See the cleanup listing generated by CleanupWorklistBot.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Bibliographies
• WikiProject Biography/Science and academia - Science & academia biographies
• WikiProject History of Science
• WikiProject Academic Journals
• WikiProject Digital Preservation
• WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - host of the List of missing journals
• WikiProject Reference works

Additional resources

• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Category:Wikipedian librarians
• German Wikipedia: Library Reference Service
• COinS in Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:ISBN
• GLAM
• The Wikipedia Library
• {{Authority control}}

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation

• b:Introduction to Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin
• m:Wikicat
• v:Learning Project

External links

• Libweb - Library WWW Servers