• Collaboration and Innovation: NNLM’s Nationwide Online Social Justice - Health Equity Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

      Coghlan, Karen (2019-11-09)
      There is a growing trend in libraries to engage their communities with information and open data by holding Wikipedia edit-a-thons. During these events, participants learn about this widely used online resource through hands-on editing of articles, including improving citations and adding new facts. The purpose of this poster is to report on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) health equity focused online edit-a-thon. In Spring 2019, supporting text and citations were added to existing articles for a total of 134 edits made by 54 editors.The event utilized librarians’ research skills to make Wikipedia a better, more evidence based resource by using National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases to edit content and add citations.
    • Collaboration and Innovation: NNLM’S Nationwide Online Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Lightning Presentation

      Coghlan, Karen (2019-07-08)
      There is a growing trend of libraries engaging their communities with information and open data by holding Wikipedia “edit-a-thons.” During the events, participants learn about the culture and norms of this widely used online resource by doing hands-on editing of articles, improving citations and adding new facts. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) held a health-focused edit-a-thon utilizing librarians’ research skills towards making Wikipedia a better and evidence-based resource in promoting NLM resources. Participants were able to view a customized training from Dr. James Hellman of WikiProject Medicine prior to the one-day event. On April 17, 2018 during the network wide online edit-a-thon, participants received online support from NNLM staff throughout the 12-hour event across the nation. At the end of the day, more than 700 edits were done in 111 articles focused on rare diseases. NNLM is planning similar events in future. This presentation will outline the planning process, marketing strategy, event details, evaluation, and future vision for this project.
    • RDM 102: The Instructor Experience

      Grynoch, Tess (2019-03-29)
      This presentation provides an instructor's perspective on teaching an online data science course for librarians called "RDM 102: Beyond Research Data Management for Biomedical & Health Sciences Librarians". This course is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Training Office (NTO). Presented at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region e-Science Forum, Marlborough, MA, USA, on March 29, 2019.