From: Christina <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:31:31 -0500 Hello, my name is Christina Manzo and I work with the Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives. As part of our outreach, we will be hosting our second webinar on December 11 at 12pm EDT. This would be a great opportunity for someone looking to get involved in crowdsourcing, but is unsure about how to make the first step, or for someone curious about current crowdsourcing projects from around the world! Thank you! Christina Manzo Research Fellow, CCLA --------- 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 (CCLA) announces its second in a series of international webinars, titled ‘Scoping and Funding Crowdsourcing Projects,’ 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 (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 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," 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, will include the presentations by Sharon Leon 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 IMLS Associate Deputy Director for Library Services and 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. Institutions interested in joining the Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives should email: [log in to unmask] Follow the Crowd Consortium on Twitter: @crowdconsortium. Media contacts: Dartmouth College Amy D. Olson [log in to unmask] 603-646-327 IMLS Giuliana Bullard 202-653-4799 [log in to unmask]