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This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue III, March 2018

Australia report

Regional GLAM workshops and Art+Feminism

GLAM Peak roadshow

The past month has seen Australian Wikimedians on the road in their role as partners in the ongoing GLAM Peak Digital Access to Collections workshops (see This Month in GLAM November 2017.

Geelong, Victoria

On 27-28 February Pru Mitchell and Leigh Blackall worked with regional Victorian GLAM organisations at the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre. We were joined by Morry, a student intern from RMIT University's Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) who created a video report of the event.

Toowoomba, Queensland

Jacinta Sutton and Anne Scheu from State Library of Queensland represented Wikimedia Australia at the Cobb and Co. Museum, Toowoomba.

Perth, Western Australia

Gideon Digby and Sam Wilson supported GLAM Peak when it hit Perth on 26-27 March.

Geelong Art Gallery and Library

Art+Feminism in Australia

International Women's Day and Art+Feminism events were held in four states during March. The Women's Art Register hosted their Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon in the Trocadero Artspace in Footscray, Melbourne. Ten new editors were trained. On International Women’s Day, the WikiD project worked on Australian women in architecture and design, and were joined by librarians from Monash University Library Caulfield.