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Join us for the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon at the Getty Center on Thursday, October 15, 2015!!

The Getty Center Exhibitions Pavilion.
Participate in the LA edition of our global Women in Architecture campaign to improve Wikipedia's content about underrepresented history in this field. As always, beginners welcome! We'll provide training for new editors with orientations offered at 10:30am and 1:00pm.


What: Women in Architecture @ Getty Center

When: Thursday, October 15 from 10am–4pm.

Where: Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Plaza Level

Suggested Focus: Women in architecture - lives, works and movements

What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. During the event there will be access to our online databases, reference books, current periodicals, and a small selection of books related to women in architecture. If you would like to have access to particular titles from our library, please email reference@getty.edu by Monday October 12th with titles and call numbers and we will have them available for you. Our holdings are searchable in our online discovery system, Primo Search.

Beginners welcome! Training sessions will be offered at 10:30am and 1:00pm.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/912944282087307/

Twitter: @eastofborneo @thegetty

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Signe Hornborg: Signelinna (1892) in Pori, Finland, possibly the first building designed by a credentialed female architect.
Getty Research Institute library
DateThursday October, 15, 2015
Time10am-4pm
(drop-in any time!)
AddressGetty Research Institute
City, StateLos Angeles, California
Keynote event of a global edit-a-thon campaign to counter the gender gap and improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in architecture.
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The Getty Research Institute and East of Borneo in Los Angeles are joining the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Women in Design, Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design and WikiProject Women in Red, in sponsoring the #Guggathon Women in Architecture Wikipedia edit-a-thon global campaign of editing events for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to the lives and works of women in architecture.

With keystone concurrent events scheduled for Thursday October 15 in Los Angeles, New York City and elsewhere, the campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art+Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both.

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