Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the Special Lecture on; Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)" Speaker: Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc, Bangalore -12 Abstract: In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration that libraries and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any questions about Wikipedia more generally. About the Speaker: Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellowhttp://bit.ly/GLAMfellow (a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse. His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is "capacity building" as described in his blogpost a few months ago "How to make cultural collaborations scalehttp://www.wittylama.com/2010/11/how-to-make-cultural-collaborations-scale/". He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with Wikimedia can be A Good Thing(tm), that we must have reasonably professional processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this he has built a bit of a GLAM hub on-wikihttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM. For more details, he can be accessed at this URL http://glamwiki.orghttp://glamwiki.org/ He has been Vice President of Wikimedia Australiahttp://wikimedia.org.au/ and the "Wikipedian in Residencehttp://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/" at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at Austliihttp://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/ and multimedia coordinator at the Dictionary of Sydneyhttp://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp, a historian, podcasterhttp://wikipediaweekly.org/, fire-twirlerhttp://www.circusoc.com/, museuophile, snowboarder, förmanhttp://www.ostgota.nu/, bartender and backpacker. Thanks and Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Visit us at ToxExpo, 6-10 March 2011 in Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., Booth# 1228 ************************************************************************************************* This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.