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Christchurch Libraries • 10 April – July 2024

Tūranga, photographed by Christchurch volunteer Michal Klajban

Tūranga, the Christchurch central city library, is one of the most impressive achievements of the post-earthquake rebuild. It hosts Canterbury Stories, a community archive of photographs and publications, including the photo library of the Christchurch Star. Volunteer Wikimedians have a monthly meetup in Tūranga and it has hosted Wikipedia edit-a-thons in the past.

#1lib1ref

1lib1ref is a campaign to encourage librarians to edit Wikipedia by adding references to articles: the slogan is "Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia". The hashtag #1lib1ref is added to the edit summary so different regions or institutions can compete with each other. The campaign runs twice a year, and the next one is Wed 15 May – Wed 5 June. Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand has more information on local events.

Tue 14 May, 10:30–11:30 Mike is giving a presentation to Christchurch librarians on how they can work with Wikipedia, and will be explaining 1lib1ref and recruiting participants.

There are lots of ways to participate.

Find an article that needs a citation. You can use the Citation Hunt tool to find a random "Citation Needed"; you can look at articles in your area of interest and find statements that have no reference; or you can pick a reliable source from your collection and add information and a reference to relevant articles.
Add a citation using Wikipedia style; adding citations and editing Wikipedia is explained here.
Add the project hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary field.
You can even add a userbox for your user page if you're into that sort of thing.

Canterbury books

To coincide with UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day (April 23rd), we've started using Wikisource to digitise and proofread out-of-copyright Christchurch and Banks Peninsula publications. Just as with the West Coast Task Force, these can be freely downloaded and shared as e-books in PDF, EPUB, or MOBI format. See the Christchurch Libraries scanned publications list for more candidates.

Proofreading team

To proofread/validate

Hay, James (1841–1922). (1915). Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury (principally Banks' Peninsula) and Its Settlers. Christchurch: Christchurch Press Company. 215 p. A history of Banks Peninsula, especially Pigeon Bay. (Google Books, Canterbury Stories).
Jacobson, Howard Charles (1841–1910). (2nd ed. 1893). Tales of Banks Peninsula. Akaroa: Akaroa Mail. 307 p. A local history which contains Stack's "Maori History of Banks Peninsula". (Hathi Trust, Internet Archive; 1914 ed. NZETC; there's also a revised 1940 edition Akaroa and Banks Peninsula 1840–1940 by William E. M. Jacobson (1887–1957), 396 pp, still copyrighted in USA.)

To import to Wikisource

Stack, James West (1835–1919). (1893). Kaiapohia: the Story of a Siege. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs. 94 p. (ENZB)
Cowan, James (1870–1943). (1923). Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs. 73 p. (Google Books requested release as in the public domain, State Library of Victoria).
Wall, Arnold (1869–1966). (1922). The Botany of Christchurch. Lyttelton: Lyttelton Times. 41 p. (Google Books; requested release as in the public domain.) A longer 1953 edition published by AH and AW Reed is still in copyright, because Wall, who desperately needs a better Wikipedia article, died in 1966.
L. Cockayne, & R. Speight. (1914). The Summit Road: its scenery, botany, and geology. Christchurch: Smith & Anthony. 40 p. (Christchurch Libraries).
Baughan, Blanche Edith (1870–1958). Her Wikipedia article has been much improved by User:Gertrude206. She published 5 volumes of poetry and 10 books of nature or travel writing that are now in the public domain in the USA and would be good candidates; her remaining books were published in 1929, 1936, and 1945. There's also a new biography of her (Markwell, Carol (2021). Enough Horizon. Wellington: Cuba Press), so there's great scope for a Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikisource project on her life and works. Selected works:
- — (12 September 1908). "The Finest Walk in the World." The Spectator (in its archives). (An account of the Milford Track, later published in Studies in New Zealand Scenery, below—it would be good to get the map from it)
- — (1911) Uncanny Country: the Termal District of New Zealand. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs. (1922 3rd edition, 72 p., in Chch Libraries). TO SCAN?
- — (1916). Studies in New Zealand Scenery. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs. 282 p. Reprinted in 1922 as Glimpses of New Zealand Scenery with an Akaroa chapter added, presumably the following.. (Internet Archive)
- — (1919). Akaroa. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs. (Google Books to clear, Chch Libraries)
Dodson, Arthur Dudley. (1930). Reminiscences of Arthur Dudley Dobson, Engineer, 1841–1930. London: Whitcombe and Tombs. 225 p. (ENZB, Google Books (copyright cleared by Google after request)).
Walker, Kate, and Wilkinson, James R. (c.1893). Notes on Dress Reform and What it Implies. Christchurch: Simpson and Williams. 35 p. (Canterbury Stories scan).

To scan

Speight, Wall, and Laing (1927). The Natural History of Canterbury. Christchurch: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. 299 p. (Internet Archive)

Anthony, Frank S.,1891–1927. (1938). Me and Gus. Hawera: The Hawera Star Pub. 100pp. Humorous short stories about bachelor farming life. Note: NOT the 1963 reissue, which has illustrations—still in copyright—by Nevile Lodge, and material by Francis Jackson. Frank Anthony died young, and his books were pubished posthumously, so are out of copyright in NZ and in the US (even if we accept a 95 year term for the US they're public domain in 2023). Interloan National Library copy

Also done

Improved Wikidata and article on Gordon Ogilvie (Q5585621)
Created Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills (1st ed.) (Q125954864) to use as a source for #1lib1ref:
Sample reference to use: <ref>{{Cite book |last=Ogilvie |first=Gordon |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125954864 |title=Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills |date= |publisher=Canterbury University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-927145-93-7 |pages=15 |language=English}}</ref>
Added #1lib1ref references to Purau, Harry Ell.

Resources

Libraries and Wikimedia

Creating and editing Wikipedia articles about books: a guide by Laurie Bridges, Oregon State University
Eight reasons Wikipedia matters for librarians compiled by the Wikipedia Library
Snyder, Johnny. (December 2013). "Wikipedia: Librarians’ Perspectives on Its Use as a Reference Source." Reference & User Services Quarterly, 53(2): 155-163. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.53n2.155.
ARL Task Force on Wikimedia and Linked Open Data. (18 April 2019.) ARL White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations. WAshington DC: Association of Research Libraries.

Christchurch Libraries resources

Canterbury Stories
Christchurch streets and places project