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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue IV, April 2024

Brazil report

Wiki Library Month

By Sandra Soster, Érica Azzellini & Juliana Cunha

As we told in our April 2023 report, Every Book Its Reader (#EveryBookItsReader) is a global campaign to increase quality content about books and writers in Wikimedia platforms, specially Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. The campaign name is the third of the Ranganathan’s five laws of library science. In Brazil, the campaign is organized by Lilian Viana (Library of ECA/USP) and Stela Madruga (Library of IME/USP), with Wiki Movimento Brasil's support.

In celebration of the month of books, for this 2024's edition, we gathered this campaign and the first day of community meetings throughout Brazil. On April 6th, we brought together more than 150 people in 16 meetings, at 13 municipalities across the country. Libraries, cultural centers, museums and cafés welcomed experienced Wikipedians and newcomers to celebrate writers and their works. The activities were really productive: more than 250 articles were edited and 30 were created.

And the results were phenomenal: Brazil was the country that contributed the most to the global campaign. See below the progression of the contributions of the two editions:

Year	Active editors	Articles created	Articles edited	Bytes added
2023	14	26	1,043	349,875
2024	200	252	21,9K	19,2M

See some pictures of the day 6th:

Campinas, São Paulo
Cuiabá, Mato Grosso
Feira de Santana, Bahia
Ilhéus, Bahia
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Recife, Pernambuco
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador, Bahia
São Carlos, São Paulo
São Carlos, São Paulo
São Luís, Maranhão
São Paulo, São Paulo
São Paulo, São Paulo
Sorocaba, São Paulo

We also had two extra "Every Book, Its Reader" editathons organized in the city of Rio de Janeiro: one at the Library of the Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro, on April 15, and another at Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, on April 24.

See the DIFF on how to organize 16 simultaneous meetings, at 13 municipalities, in different regions of the country (only in Portuguese).

Four new partners

Biblioteca Escolar Municipal do Dique - José Lins do Rego (BEM do Dique) is a library in the community of Jardim América, a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Ester da Silveira, librarian and manager of BEM do Dique, attended to the Goethe-Institut extra editathon and saw in a GLAM-Wiki partnership a possibility to strengthen ties with her community and reactivate the space which suffered with a flood in January 2024.

Associação Brasileira de Estudos Cemiteriais is a non-profit organization based at Mathias Haas Funeral Memorial, in Blumenau (Santa Catarina, Brazil). ABEC gathers students, professors and researchers who study manifestations of death in Brazil; as graves and cemeteries that are listed as cultural heritage (a knowledge gap in Wiki).

Transite is a photo-project held between 2013 and 2016. This collection of more then 10,000 pictures will help us to illustrate the Brazilians and their bicycles in all Brazilian states.

Memória & Arte is a company specialized in cultural management, conservation and restoration of special collections. The activities of this partnership will be carried out in the area of transcribing handwritten documents on Wikisource. Memória & Arte will bring knowledge to Wiki! We are organizing a Wikiversity course on how to use WikiSource for transcribing old manuscripts that are part of our GLAM-Wiki partners, as Livros do Banguê and the Minutes of MonGeral from 1835 to 1977; both recognized as Memory of the World by UNESCO.

First batch from Eva Klabin

Casa Museu Eva Klabin is a museum located in the Lagoa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was established in 1990 and officially opened to the public in 1995. The museum is the former home of Eva Klabin, a collector who bequeathed to the city of Rio de Janeiro a collection of almost 50 centuries of works of art, furniture and decorative ornaments, from Ancient Egypt to Impressionism.

This is the first batch from its collection to Wikimedia Commons, confirming its commitment to Open Knowledge. They've uploaded 112 photographs, a sample of each of its nine collection: Applied art (14 F); British (3 F), Dutch and Flemish (9 F), Egyptian (18 F), French (7 F), Greco-Roman (15 F), Italian (19 F), Oriental (10 F), and Pre-Columbian (11 F).

See the Casa Museu Eva Klabin's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

New batch from Museu do Colono

As we told in our January 2024 report, Midiateca Capixaba (Media Library of Espírito Santo) is a project of the Secretary of State for Culture of Espírito Santo (SeCult-ES) for digitizing and organizing the collections from state GLAM institutions in a unique online platform. This huge and audacious project was conceived in 2019 and aims to be more than an online platform. It represents a state policy for disseminating and, above all, preserving the culture and the memory of Espírito Santo through its cultural institutions' collections.

One of them is Museu do Colono (Museum of Immigrants), a small institution in the little town of Santa Leopoldina, which is the fourth oldest city of the State and was settled by immigrants from various European countries. You probably recognize this institution where Wiki Movimento Brasil have organized a "Wiki Takes a City" event between August 11th and 14th 2022.

Recently we've uploaded more than 2,000 new media depicting the unique collection of Museu do Colono.

See the Museu do Colono's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

See the Midiateca Capixaba's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

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