entries, and added photos to Wikimedia Commons about the following topics: Parc de l’espoir, Barbada de Barbades, Rita Baga, Kevin Lambert, and important police raids in Queer spaces that helped change LGBTQ+ rights in Québec. We also had the founder of the Bibliothèque à livres ouverts, Benoît Migneault, as an invited guest. During this event, we created a Wikidata entry and uploaded photos of him to Wikimedia Commons. Future plans include an article for Migneault once he meets notability criteria.
These events were also used to discuss libraries in general. Participants were encouraged to obtain library memberships with Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Québec’s National Library and Archives, as well as with the Bibliothèques de la Ville de Montréal or another local public library. BAnQ proved to be an important resource for historical newspapers, magazines, and government publications on historical LGBTQ+ people, places, and events in Québec because of its digitization projects on Québec heritage newspapers (BAnQ, 2020). I was also able to use important resources available through the McGill University Library: the Archives of Gender and Sexuality from Gale and LGBT ought and Culture from Alexander Street Press, to supplement the resources from BAnQ and the public libraries (Miller, 2020). This access allowed me to prepare “press dossiers” before the events that were shared with participants to help in the creation and editing process.
WP:Catégorie est . . . la conclusion
Librarian involvement in Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Projects is an opportunity to engage with their local communities and help close gender, LGBTQ+, and local history and culture gaps. As information professionals working in academic settings, we have privileged access to our own intuition’s resources and to an important network of colleagues in national, research, public, and specialized libraries. We can and should be leveraging our own library’s collections and working with colleagues in other institutions to help make the information on Wikipedia more robust and accurate because it is the most used
