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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

 *Institute of Museum and Library Services-Funded Crowdsourcing Consortium
for Libraries and Archives to Host Second, Funding-Based*

*Webinar*


*Scoping and Funding Crowdsourcing Projects*

*December 11, 2014 at 12pm EST *

*HANOVER, N.H. –* December 9, 2014 –The Crowdsourcing Consortium for
Libraries and Archives <http://www.crowdconsortium.org/> (CCLA) announced
its *second in a series of international webinars, titled ‘Scoping and
Funding Crowdsourcing Projects,’
<http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/scoping-funding-crowdsourcing-projects.html>
scheduled
for December 11 at 12 pm EDT*. Crowdsourcing in the humanities is an
emerging new area for museums, libraries, and archives. The CCLA was formed
earlier this year with an Institute of Museum and Library Services
<http://www.imls.gov/> (IMLS) award, with the goal to unite leading-edge
technology groups in libraries and archives as well as humanities scholars
and scholars from the sciences in a conversation about best practices,
shared toolsets, and strategies for using crowdsourcing.

The CCLA project was initiated by Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild
Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth, who as founding
director of Tiltfactor <http://www.tiltfactor.org/> has extensive
experience with crowdsourcing and developing engaging games for prosocial
causes. The CCLA is engaging top experts in the field through a series of
regional U.S. meetings, the most recent of which occurred in Boston this
last  September. A culminating national meeting will be held in
Washington, DC, in May 2015.

The two planned webinars are part of the first year of the CCLA initiative
and will feature internationally recognized experts in crowdsourcing. The
first CCLA Webinar, "Crowdsourcing 101: Fundamentals and Case Studies,"
<http://www.crowdconsortium.org/webinar-crowdsourcing-101-fundamentals-and-case-studies/>
was
held in late October and had over 180 registered participants from 40
states, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

The December 2014 webinar, moderated and hosted by OCLC,
<http://www.oclc.org/> will include the presentations by Sharon Leon
<http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/sleon>  Director of Public
Projects at the Center for History and New Media and Associate Professor in
History and Art History at George Mason University; Robert Horton
<http://www.imls.gov/about/staffdetail.aspx?StaffId=88>  IMLS Associate
Deputy Director for Library Services and Brett Bobley
<http://www.neh.gov/staff/brett-bobley>  Director and Chief Information
Officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Participants will
learn how to pick the funding organization that is right for their
projects, and how to then best pitch their ideas to those funders.

‘Scoping and Funding Crowdsourcing Projects’ is free and open to the
public. *For more information about participating in the webinar and
to RSVP, visit: ow.ly/FjNHu <http://ow.ly/FjNHu>.*

Institutions interested in joining the Crowdsourcing Consortium for
Libraries and Archives should email contact at crowdconsortium.org.



Follow the Crowd Consortium on Twitter: @crowdconsortium
<https://twitter.com/crowdconsortium>.



*Media contacts:*

Dartmouth College

Amy D. Olson

Amy.D.Olson at dartmouth.edu

603-646-327



IMLS

Giuliana Bullard

202-653-4799

gbullard at imls.gov

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