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Dorothy Howard was the Metropolitan New York Library Council's Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data fellow from August 2013-April 2015. Dorothy provided consultation, project support, and technical advising on Wikipedia editing to the New York community. Dorothy gave lectures, trainings, consultation, event planning support, and advising on a variety of Wikipedia projects and events in the Regional U.S. METRO's Wikipedian-in-Residence Summer, 2013, Position announcement. Summer 2013-Spring 2015 Selected Institutional Engagement Engagement in the form of consultations, presentations, staff trainings, Edit-a-thons, and other collaborations. American Museum of Natural History Library Avery Library and Burke Theological Library, Columbia University Libraries Barnard Library Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute Columbia University Libraries (Studio@Butler) CUNY Graduate Center Mina Rees Library Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation Guggenheim Museum of New York Library and Archive International Center of Photography Józef Piłsudski Institute of America Archives Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library New York Botanic Garden Library New York Public Library * New York Public Library of the Performing Arts Poet's House Queens Public Library Central Branch Weill Cornell Medical College Library Whitney Museum of American Art Library GLAM-Wiki Metro Members Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum of Modern Art Wikipedia:GLAM/New York Public Library Wikipedia:GLAM/QueensLibrary Wikipedia:GLAM/Leo Baeck Institute Wikipedia:GLAM/Frick Outreach:GLAM/Case studies/Brooklyn Museum Wikipedia:GLAM/Józef Piłsudski Institute of America Wikipedia:GLAM/Barnard College Wikipedia:GLAM/CJH Wikipedia:GLAM/Guggenheim Museum Monthly New York City Reports posted in "This Month in GLAM" January 2015 December 2014 October 2014 September 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 METRO GLAM-Wiki Engagement The Center for Jewish History, CJH Created a GLAM Page: Wikipedia:GLAM/CJH Hosted a Women in Jewish History Edit-a-Thon, May 2014. "Center for Jewish History to Host 'Women in Jewish History' Edit-a-thon on May 4th." April 23, 2014. Started an internal Wikipedia working group. Other media: Metropolitan Archivist article about Center archivists editing Wikipedia Interview with Leanora Lange about editing Wikipedia at the Center Frick Collection Created a GLAM Page: Wikipedia:GLAM/Frick. Has incorporated Wikipedia Editing into the tasks of archivists and librarians. Specifically, they are improving the references to institutionally-relevant subjects and adding in links to their digitized books and collections where relevant. Has donated upwards of 30 photographs from the Frick Art Reference Library to contribute to Wikipedia’s Biography pages. "Adding Authority Archival Information to Wikipedia: An Interview at The Frick Collection." February 20th, 23014. Guggenheim Created a GLAM page: Wikipedia:GLAM/Guggenheim Museum Started a working group on Wikipedia Held a mulch-departmental staff Wikipedia training Held a Wikipedia training for all interns, started a project to have interns correct dead links to the Guggenheim’s digital collections on Wikipedia and improve Wikipedia’s references. Contributing to articles about exhibitions and artworks. Edit-a-thon, October, 2014. Museum of Modern Art, MoMA GLAM page: Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum of Modern Art Hosted, “Wikipedia Loves Art” a Wiki scavenger hunt and free content photography contest, in February 2009. Held Wiki training workshops for MoMA and friends, getting together on a regular basis. "MoMA Wikipedia 'Talk to Me' Edit-a-thon in 2011. The edit-a-thon was centered around filling in articles about their exhibition Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects which showed July 24 to November 7, 2011 Józef Piłsudski Institute of America Created a GLAM Page: Wikipedia:GLAM/Józef Piłsudski Institute of America Held training for staff Hosted Wikipedians-in-Residence Donated images to Wikimedia Commons: Category:Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. Metropolitan Museum’s Thomas J. Watson Library Created GLAM page: Wikipedia:GLAM/TJWL After adding links to its digital holdings, over 50% of the traffic going to the library’s Digital Collections is referred by Wikipedia. "Wikipedia for Special Collections: A Conversation with William Blueher of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Thomas J. Watson Library." November 13, 2013. Barnard College & Columbia University Created a GLAM Page: Wikipedia:GLAM/Barnard College "Barnard College and Columbia University 'Hack the Cannon' Adding Women's History to Wikipedia." April 2, 2014.