ALIA

Wikimedia Australia's partnership with Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has included assisting with librarian training and workshops.

In 2013, Wikimedia Australia sponsored ALIA's New Librarians' Symposium, and members of Wikimedia Australia attended and presented at the Symposium and ALIA's Online Conference in Brisbane. Presentations included Liam Wyatt's GLAM-Wiki from Australia to the world and back, and Tara Macphail with Tony Naar on the History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia project. Read more here.

Throughout 2014, volunteers from Wikimedia Australia held a series of "Wikipedia and Libraries" presentations across the country to ALIA members. Approximately 280 people attended the sessions, with live tweets from some of the talks made under the #aliawikip Twitter hashtag.

Wikimedia Australia presentation for ALIA at the State Library of Western Australia (2014)

Wikimedians also presented at the 14th National Libraries and Information Association (ALIA) Conference in Melbourne.

In 2015 the partnership extended with editathon workshops run by professional librarians from the State Library of NSW who were also experienced Wikipedians.

In 2023, Wikimedia Australia partnered with ALIA to run three events on the theme Where's the source, aiming to demonstrate how sources are crucial to keeping Wikipedia reliable..

Events

• Democracy in the Dark — Friday 2 August 2024
  Democracy in the dark: a discussion on the impact of information control, AI and censorship. ALIA Library and Information Week webinar.
• ALIA event: Digitisation and Preservation — Wednesday 13 September 2023
  An online event with Wikimedia, ALIA, Trove and the Biodiversity Heritage Library discussing engagement for digitised collections.
• Mythbusting Wikipedia: Misinformation, AI, and Volunteers — Tuesday 1 August 2023
  Learn how reliable Wikipedia is, how it’s being used in classrooms, and how it can help people understand referencing, misinformation, and the need for reliable sources.

Blog posts

Where's The Source Wikimedia Australia partnered with ALIA in 2023 to run events demonstrating how sources are crucial to keeping Wikipedia reliable

In Support of Trove The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Australia’s peak body for the library sector, led the call for more organisations to speak up for Trove.

See also

• Australian libraries and Wikipedia - Project page with links to events
• Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Conference - This month in GLAM, Oct 2014
• ALIA partnership goes countrywide - This month in GLAM, Nov 2014
• ALIA Wikipedia page (Archived Nov 2014)
• ALIA Wikipedia and libraries slides by Pru Mitchell and Steven Zhang
• Wikibrarians gathering momentum, Incite journal, Jan 2015