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February 17, 2012

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Minneapolis History Wikipedia edit-a-thon

February 25, 10-5 pm, Special Collections Reading Room, 4th Floor, Minneapolis Central Library

We invite the Minnesota Wikipedia community and local historians to edit and augment entries in Wikipedia on Minneapolis history. Please help us increase the depth of information on Minneapolis history topics by utilizing materials in the Minneapolis Collection. Find your own Minneapolis history topics to edit or work from a list developed by Special Collections Librarians. We also have wi-fi, please feel free to bring your own laptop/tablet to work on.

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Most dispatches are from Ian Stade, a librarian at the James K. Hosmer Special Collections. Special Collections' Minneapolis History Collection covers an extensive array of materials on city history, including thousands of photographs, clippings, documents, books, programs, reports, yearbooks and hundreds of archival collections. Special Collections also houses several other collections on World War II, 19th century literature, the Abolitionist movement, Mark Twain, and the History of Books and Printing. You can visit Special Collections at the Minneapolis Central Library.

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