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History of Medicine in Newark
Wikipedia Editathon at Dana Library
When and Where
Date:Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Time:3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Address:185 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102. Use 77 Bleeker St, Newark NJ if you are using a GPS.
Register here: https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/10896552

Help us enhance information in Wikipedia about the history of medicine in Newark!

The John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University in Newark welcomes students, staff, faculty, and the general public to an edit-a-thon focused on the history of medicine in Newark, New Jersey. Please register in advance and bring your laptop to participate in the event.

In anticipation of the edit-a-thon, "For all the People, a Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform, " a traveling exhibit created by the National Library of Medicine will be on display in Dana Library on the 1st floor. Please come check it when it goes on display October 3rd!

The participants affiliated with this initiative will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia. We will modify our editing behavior if any edits conflict with Wikipedia guidelines. Please contact the Project Coordinators, Dbiunno (talk) or Bobavrul or Runarchives if any activities appear to go against this statement.

Edit-a-thon in progress

Details[edit]

  • Location: Hybrid but in-person strongly encouraged! In-person at the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University, Newark and via Zoom.
  • Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023
  • Time: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  • Sign up and register here: Please register in advance. Seating is limited.
  • Please register for a Wikipedia account at this link BEFORE coming to the event
    • All are welcome to join us! Please bring a laptop to participate.

Location:[edit]

  • John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Avenue, Newark, NJ NJ 07102. Use 77 Bleeker St, Newark NJ if you are using a GPS.
  • To enter the Library please use the new Plaza Entrance on the south side of Bleeker Street. 40°44′33″N 74°10′31″W / 40.74239°N 74.1753°W / 40.74239; -74.1753 Climb to the plaza level. The Library is on the east (left) across the plaza from Paul Robeson Student Center on the west (right). When you go through the entrance door, you'll see the guard who will check your ID.
  • Attendees must present a current Rutgers ID card or government-issued ID (ie, drivers license, real ID, etc) to enter Dana Library.
  • Washington Street station (Newark Light Rail) is a few blocks south of the campus. If you are driving, you'll need to pay for street parking.

Quick Editing Tips[edit]

Agenda[edit]

  • Welcome! Introductions
  • Brief presentations
  • Beginner tutorial by Diane Biunno, archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies: How to edit Wikipedia
  • Announcements: please feel free to share any events going on in the area.
  • Let's edit!

Upcoming Events[edit]

(feel free to add any upcoming Wikipedia related events you'd like to share)

Attendees[edit]

List your username by adding the following line. * ~~~~

Articles that need additional citations/references and general copyediting[edit]

This might be a good place for beginners or folks who've never edited Wikipedia before..

If you'd like to work on the following articles, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet

  • Marcus Lawrence Ward[1][2] [3][4]He co-founded Ward hospital in Newark, a hospital for convalescing service members. Former governor of NJ.
  • Hildegard Peplau[5][6][7][8]: American Nurse who created the first grad level program for the preparation of clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing.
  • Clara Maass was an American Nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever. She was born in NJ and graduated from Newark German Hospital.

Short articles that need additional written content[edit]

To help get you started, we've attached links (footnote) to potential sources.

If you'd like to work on the following articles, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet

Articles to create[edit]

Please add your username next to the article you'd like to work on so you can collaborate with other editors and/or avoid duplicating work

  • Ward hospital[26][27] [3]Hospital for convalescing service members. Co-founded by Marcus Lawrence Ward. Please work on the draft of the Wikipedia article with other editors in this google doc and when it's ready to be published, move it to Wikipedia. If you'd like to work on this article, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet
  • Ironbound Community Corporation[28][29][30] Please work on the draft of the Wikipedia article with other editors in this google doc and when it's ready to be published, move it to Wikipedia. If you'd like to work on this article, please add your name or username to this spreadsheet

Resources[edit]

  1. ^ "Box | Login". rutgers.account.box.com. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  2. ^ Turner, Lloyd (2018). Newark: city of destiny.
  3. ^ a b Jordan, Brian Matthew (2015-01-26). Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-87140-782-5.
  4. ^ Lee, Francis Bazley (1902). New Jersey as a Colony and as a State: One of the Original Thirteen. Publishing Society of New Jersey.
  5. ^ "Hildegard Peplau Papers".
  6. ^ A Conversation with Hildegard Peplau, retrieved 2023-02-21
  7. ^ PhD, Barbara J. Callaway (2002-06-18). Hildegard Peplau: Psychiatric Nurse of the Century. Springer Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8261-9765-8.
  8. ^ Callaway, Barbara (2002). Hildegard Peplau: Physchiatric nurse of the century. Springer Pub Co.
  9. ^ "Google Books: Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practioners and the Evolution of Modern Nursing".
  10. ^ "Nursing Through Time 1930-1959".
  11. ^ Callaway, Barbara (2002). Hildegard Peplau: Physchiatric nurse of the century. Springer Pub Co. p. 294-342.
  12. ^ Ward, Francis (2009). On Duty: Power, Politics, and the History of Nursing in New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. p. 131-171.
  13. ^ "Various sources".
  14. ^ "Rutgers Newark Archives finding aid (add to external sources)".
  15. ^ NJ.com, Barry Carter | NJ Advance Media for (2020-02-01). "Pioneering doc opened N.J. hospital for black patients. Museum will honor him". nj. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  16. ^ "resources/articles for John Kenny/ Kenny Hospital - if you have trouble accessing the link, let one of the organizers know".
  17. ^ a b "National Register of Historic places- NJIT" (PDF).
  18. ^ "Obituary for Shirley A. Smoyak at Flynn and Son Funeral Home". www.flynnfuneral.com. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  19. ^ Payne, Natasha (2009-06-03). "Pioneering US psychiatric nurse honoured by London university". Nursing Times. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  20. ^ "Shirley A. Smoyak papers".
  21. ^ Leslie (2013-08-07). "Congratulations to Joyce Fitzpatrick and Shirley Smoyak!". INANE - International Academy of Nursing Editors. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  22. ^ "Living Legends - American Academy of Nursing Main Site". www.aannet.org. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  23. ^ "Tribute article about Smoyak. If you need help accessing the link, please reach out to an edit-a-thon organizer".
  24. ^ Psychiatric Nursing Today - Shirley Smoyak, retrieved 2023-09-19
  25. ^ "MG 209 Medical Society of New Jersey Records 1766 – 1887 | The New Jersey Historical Society". Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  26. ^ Platt, Hermann K. (2019-12-31), "Marcus L. Ward (1866–69)", The Governors of New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, pp. 176–179, retrieved 2023-06-19
  27. ^ "U.S. Army. Ward General Hospital, Newark, N.J: Rear View - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine". collections.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  28. ^ "Various resources from Internet archive (archive.org)".
  29. ^ "PAGES 281-287 ON IRONBOUND. "Toxic Heritage"".
  30. ^ "online resources via the RUL catalog - if you need help accessing the resources, please reach out to one of the edit-a-thon organizers".
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