User:Gereon K./Duisburg

Collaboration with the public library of the city of Duisburg

A meeting between Wikipedians and library officials in Duisburg

On the 10th of July 2017 six Wikipedians met with Jan-Pieter Barbian, a cultural historian and director of the library of the city of Duisburg, and Petra Dobler-Wahl, artist, head of public relation and marketing director of the library.

Duisburg is a city of 500,000 inhabitants. The central library has 300,000 media items and a collection of 3,500 books from the 14th to the 19th century.

On the 28th of October 2017 a library day will be held throughout Germany (see Tag der Bibliotheken). Almost all German libraries will have open days or even an information week with presentations and talks. The Wikipedians offered to organize an information booth about Wikimedia projects at the library day and a Wikimedia/Wikipedia consultation hour as well as a presentations of how to contribute to Wikimedia projects. The representatives of the library showed interest in Wikipedians taking part in their information week.

The coordination page for the project can be found at de:Wikipedia:Duisburg/Stadtbibliothek Duisburg.