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ACRL/NY Information Literacy Discussion Group Spring 2025 Meeting!
Join us for a presentation about Wikipedia, library instruction, archives, and some of the collaborative projects and courses with CUNY librarians. The 2-year CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence program, funded by Craig Newmark Philanthropies, will also be introduced.
Register here: RSVP (you will receive a Zoom link via email confirmation)
- How Wikipedia and its open access sister projects (Wikidata, WIkimedia Commons) have been used by faculty, librarians, and archivists in different courses and workshop/events (edit-a-thons, translate-a-thons) across the CUNYverse over the last 15 years.
- The online and in-person network of resources available to educators interested in trying out a small or ambitious version of a Wikipedia project at your college (Wikimedia NYC community, WikiEdu, AfroCROWD, Art+Feminism).
More info:
- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/libraries/2025/05/15/wikipedia-giving-academic-resources-new-life-online
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_City_University_of_New_York
Guest speakers: Richard Knipel, CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence; Ann Matsuuchi, instructional technology librarian at LaGuardia Community College.
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Time: 2:00PM – 3:00PM
Location: Held via Zoom
Register here: RSVP (you will receive a Zoom link via email confirmation)
The ACRL/NY Information Literacy Discussion Group meeting is open to ACRL/NY members. If you are not a member, please join ACRL/NY.
All ACRL/NY events, programs, and discussion groups are guided by our Code of Conduct. For more information, please see Code-of-Conduct
For any questions and information please email Dianne Gordon Conyers at dconyers@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dianne Gordon Conyers and Madeline Ruggiero, Co-chairs
ACRL/NY Information Literacy Discussion Group