Ignite Talk

Books can meet technology to create awareness. 

Wiki Editoras Lx (WELx), a feminist collective, work with librarians and citizens to edit Wikipedia pages about female writers using a special source: a feminist book collection. Everybody intervenes: WELx find new information that is not online, librarians learn how to use technology as a reference source, while providing specialized knowledge thought the curation of contents within the physical books, and everybody engages in active citizenship enriching the open-source knowledge and community. Feel like tangling in? 

Hosts

Edite Guimarães
Edite is the Head of Lisbon Public Libraries. At Lisbon’s municipality cultural area, she was member of Lisbon’s cultural strategic planning work group. 

Filipa Barros
Filipa is a community librarian and the Coordinator of the Belém Public Library (Lisbon, Portugal). Filipa is the co-author of the Rough Guide for Citizen Engagement in Public Libraries (PL2030 and JRC).