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) The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.