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Friday, August 11 • 1:15pm - 2:15pm
WikiLeaks: Using Wikipedia to Promote Diversity

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"WikiLeaks: Using Wikipedia to Promote Diversity,"

Incorporation of technology in education can be seen through the many methods of instruction that are taking place in today’s classrooms.  The idea of using technology for the students’ benefit is one that students hear but often interpret to mean “use technology to educate yourself,” however, rarely are students encouraged to use technology to help educate others. This panel will feature three archivists presenting ways that we have incorporated crowd sourcing and the presence of web 2.0 tools and technologies to increase awareness of minority collections and engage underrepresented contributors and students on social platforms such as Wikipedia.

In conjunction with the theme “Cultural Keeper X: Beyond Library Walls: Innovative Ways to Engage Our Communities,”  this panel aims to share ways in which repositories have engaged students, faculty and the overall public by hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons and/or incorporating web 2.0 initiatives into curriculum. The  three panelists will highlight how the incorporation for these tools have aided in increasing awareness for hidden/underrepresented communities, encouraged diversity within the web platform - in both the collections being edited and the editing contributor - and lastly the collaboration amongst other information professionals that is needed to ensure these events are successful. 


Speakers
avatar for Tiffany Atwater Lee

Tiffany Atwater Lee

Public Services Archivist, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Tiffany Atwater Lee serves as the Asst. Head of the Archives at the AUC Woodruff Library's Archives Research Center. She is responsible for the administration of the department?s public services via course instruction, programming and outreach.
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Curtis Small

Senior Assistant Librarian, University of Delware Library, Museums and Press
Coordinator of Public Services for the Special Collections department of University of Delaware Library. A project member of Colored Conventions, a digital humanities project based at University of Delaware..
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Greta Suiter

Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University


Friday August 11, 2017 1:15pm - 2:15pm EDT
Ivy II (Grand Hyatt Buckhead)