Submissions:2018/Bringing feminist pedagogy to Wikipedia training for US public library staff: Reflections from the OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence
- Title
Bringing feminist pedagogy to Wikipedia training for US public library staff: Reflections from the OCLC Wikipedia-in-Residence
- Theme (optional)
Relationship Building & Support; Inclusion & Diversity
No
Presentation
- Author
Monika Sengul-Jones
- E-mail address
Jones.monika@gmail.com
- Wikimedia username
- Shameran81 / Monikasj
- Affiliation(s) (optional)
Formally OCLC Wikipedia-in-Residence; UC San Diego
- Abstract
On March 8, 2018, in honor of International Women’s Day, Merrilee Proffitt and I gave a presentation during a global conversation the topic of women in the movement about women in the [OCLC Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/OCLC/A_Wikipedian-in-Residence_to_Engage_500_Librarians_and_their_Communities, which was nearing completion at the time. We were asked to present because the majority of the participants in the project self-identified as women. And with the project nearly complete, we were well positioned to share out insights about their experiences, but speaking about the project’s as a women-focused initiative was misnomer, in part because the focus was to train public library staff. It’s just that in the United States, women make up a majority of library staff.
In this presentation, I will speak about the frictions and opportunities in working with gendered professions, such as library work. What should we keep in mind when we’re doing outreach to a profession that is feminized? I will describe how the pedagogical approach I brought to the outreach and training program team, as a Wikipedian-in-Residence, nested within a larger project team, was built on specific feminist values. I’ll give concrete examples of how feminism translated into specific choices we made about our project, from course recruitment decisions, content design, and default suggestions, in order to meaningfully train library staff about Wikipedia.
In the presentation, I’ll be sure to critically reflect on the challenges that are raised serve a professional class industry sector dominated by a particular gender / race / class, and lessons this experience offers those of us in the Wikimedia movement keen to incorporate feminist pedagogy into outreach trainings materials and approaches.
The Wikipedia + Libraries project concluded with the release of the curated curriculum and course materials available for others to share and adapt under a CC BY SA 4.0 license, and these learnings will primarily be shared in a complementary talk; this presentation showcase selections of the examples used during the 2017 course instruction and communication.
- Length of presentation
20
- Special requests
Projector to show slides
- Preferred room size
~25
- Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?
The seed of this presentation topic was discussed at the Women in the Wikimedia Movement conversation; presentations have been made about the Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project more generally at library conferences, I also made a presentation at Wikimania in the early stages of the project in 2017
- If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?
yes
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