User:IanTheArchivist

I attended Hillhead High School and am a graduate of Strathclyde University. I worked until Covid as a Volunteer Archivist in Govan High School. I am a former member of Govan's Hidden Histories https://govanshiddenhistories.wordpress.com/ and Protests and Suffragettes https://www.facebook.com/ProtestsandSuffragettes

I have been collaborating with User:Kaybeesquared on a number of Wikipedia articles; firstly on suffragists and suffragettes, including Amy Sanderson and Mary Morris, and hope we can continue to work successfully together. More recently, we have been working together on women connected with the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service, including adding a number of names and additional information to that organisation's Wikipedia article.

I am attending a refresher course on editing Wikipedia online, which is being run by the University of Edinburgh. I hope to write a new article on Jude Tindall

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I have been a member of the Scottish Library Association and its successor organisation, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals,(CILIP) for many years, and am an Honorary Member of CILIP in Scotland. I have been very interested in Information literacy for a number of years, and have worked with many organisations to challenge assumptions made about the skills pupils and students are assumed to have.

I worked with the late Dr Joihn Crawford of Glasgow Caledonian University on the Scottish Information Literacy Project http://www.therightinformation.org/archive-silp/ and more recently as a founder member of "The Right Information" http://www.therightinformation.org/home/.

Last year, I read the book "Who belongs to Glasgow" about the city's ethnic mimorities, and was disappointed to see how little there was on Glasgow's Black History. When I looked into the few pages more closely, I discovred that a lot of the names and information were quite inaccurate, Since then, I have been intensively studying the matter. In collaboration with Kaybeesquared, I recently added this related article to Wikipedia Jessie M. Soga to which I have added more every year. I also had a .uk/research/ameeting with Peggy Brunache and Professor Bill Cushley, the co-ordinator of the Glasgow University/University of the West Indies Partnership Programme with a view to me providing help and research topics for graduate students from the latter institution.

I am currently working with Dr Jo Davis on Black History topics

I enjoy reading, and was a member of the Hillhead Library Book Group in Glasgow until the pandemic. Prior to Covid, I also enjoyed travelling; having visited well over 100 countries. I have visited countries beginning with every letter of the alphabet for which there is a country (none start with the letter "X" ) apart from Qatar, and i hoped to visit there to complete my "bucket list" until I took ill with labyrinthitis

Toronto in Ontario, Canada, and I have visited it many time

I recently read a fact about weather on the BBC News website^[2], and I can cite it again here^[2]