Information is presented below in line with the notes detailed here, provided by WMUK with the template report in October 2017.
Decal of Manic Street Preachers' excellent and highly appropriate song quote, displayed in Greenock Central Library, Greenock, Scotland.The Scottish Poetry Library, looking all amazing in the sun.
Last quarter for user:lirazelf, as took up role of Scotland Programme Coordinator on 16 April. Replacement will take over from 30 April. Beginning of April quiet as resident taking outstanding TOIL. The following events, meetings and planning sessions took place during this period.
Motherwell meeting with North Lanarkshire steering group on 12 Feb 14:00-16:00 plus travel - identifying volunteer groups
Monday 12 Feb - Amnesty meeting NLS 1hr
Friday 16 February - Digital Champions meeting - presentation given by Russell from NL. Healthy number of new leads made with new library services
Friday 23 February - Lost Poets of Scotland editathon. Hopefully first of many.
Tues 27 February - Inverclyde Training for volunteers (with Jenny King) 13:00 - 17:00
Lancet paper submitted (Napier)
Monday 5 March - South Lanarkshire Libraries digital team meeting presentation (15 att) 1hr
Wednesday 7 March - Inverclyde Editathon (1-5)
Tuesday 13 March - South Ayrshire meeting (12:30 - 16:30)
Open the Door planning, SWaC planning
Thursday 22 March - Strong Women of the Clydeside editathon (2-8pm)
Friday 6 April - Planning meeting for Open the Door event (Glasgow Women's Library event, Periscope / Heritage Walk / WikiShootMe)
Tuesday 10 April - Interviews for new Resident
Wednesday 11 April - South Ayrshire staff training - 10-3
On Tuesday 10th April interviews were held for a replacement resident, as I am moving on to WMUK, and following those interviews, our new resident user:Delphine Dallison, was appointed. I am very sad to leave SLIC, but am delighted to be taking on the new role of Scotland Programme Coordinator, and very happy indeed to be handing over to Delphine. Thanks hugely to everyone at SLIC, it's been great working with you.
Lost Poets of Scotland editathon with Scottish Poetry Library. Interest generated for additional events.
Training day at Inverclyde for volunteers taking part in the editathon, and the editathon itself. 2 x half day format worked well and allowed volunteers to come back with questions about editing.
Protests & Suffragettes event - this event allowed us to develop a relationship with an existing partner (SWaC), and gave our student placement Jenny an event to which to work towards / run herself.
South Ayrshire staff training - this was delivered as part of the work around the town of Girvan, generating a good deal of interest in local librarians and senior management.
Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for the change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level
Meeting with Amnesty Scotland re: potential editathon
Meeting with North Lanarkshire libraries - support towards first editathon
Digital Champions meeting - many new leads made with public library services following Russell (North Lanarkshire)'s presentation on their experience of the project so far.
Monday 5 March - South Lanarkshire Libraries digital team meeting presentation (15 att) 1hr
Tuesday 13 March - South Ayrshire meeting (13:30 - 16:00)
Friday 6 April - Planning meeting for Open the Door event (Glasgow Women's Library event, Periscope / Heritage Walk / WikiShootMe)
Strong Women of the Clydside - a number of Skype meetings held to plan this event
Staff training @ South Ayrshire as a new partner for the project.
Friday 6 April - Planning meeting for Open the Door event (Glasgow Women's Library event, Periscope / Heritage Walk / WikiShootMe) - this event will take place on Friday 18 May, as part of the GWL online-only "Open the Door" Festival. Following part of the Merchant City Heritage Walk designed by GWL, we'll use the WikiShootMe tool to add pictures of buildings along the route to WikiCommons. The event will be broadcast live on Periscope.
In collaboration with Napier University, and the Wikimedians in Residence at the University of Edinburgh and the Wellcome Library, a paper was submitted to The Lancet on the use of Wikipedia.
Projects/events in development (relating to any goal), if any
The resident was asked to keynote at a Learning & Teaching event to be held with a University Partner. This will be undertaken by the resident in her new role as Scotland Programme Coordinator.
