UCLA’s Centennial Initiative, pulling in faculty and audiences from on campus and from the wider University of California system. Others libraries opted to hold stand-alone events that better suited their programming needs. Some partner libraries hosted multiple sessions (e.g., a training preceding the actual edit-a-thon or several scheduled editing events to allow varied audiences to participate), while others held one event combining training and editing. The range of ways in which academic library partners have tailored #CiteNLM to t their programming needs demonstrates the campaign’s adaptability to various contexts even within the academic library.
To facilitate connections between planned library programming and #CiteNLM, academic library partners effectively utilized both NLM’s wide array of digital health information resources (e.g., MedlinePlus) and NNLM Wikipedia editing resources (e.g., the Organizers’ Guide and online trainings). All of the WWG’s academic library host partners stated that they utilized the Organizers’ Guide to help plan their event and then adapted NNLM’s materials in various ways to fit their local needs. For example, UPenn created training materials based on NNLM’s but with additional information about their locally available databases. UMB used NNLM’s trainings as a basis for the training offered at their in-person event and utilized linked resources from the #CiteNLM web page to identify articles in need of editing. UMass relied on NNLM’s promotional materials to publicize their event and on NNLM’s recorded trainings to introduce remote editors to Wikipedia editing. Partnering with NNLM’s Pacific Southwest Regional office, librarians from the UCLA Biomedical Library created training materials specific to the campus. They promoted directly to the UCLA MLIS program, recruiting students to participate in the campaign and even help with creating the event Dashboard. The team also heavily promoted the event through the OpenUCLA Centennial Initiative, which was open to the entire campus as well as the public. Finally, many institutions diverged from the topic of the current #CiteNLM campaign, choosing instead to adapt the materials to a topic of greater interest to their local audience.
