 This is a library-related talk and a library-related session, and many of you are library people in this room. I wanted to remind you that there is a lunch for the library's user group. Enjoy St. Jerry at 12.30 on level A. So come join us. There'll be a buffet set up outside, like the normal lunch. Grab your food, and come join us in that room, and we will all get to meet each other then. But now I think let's get started with the talk. Thank you very much. Hello everyone. My name is Van Fillon, I'm the director of the library in Montréal. I'm very happy to be among you this morning, this afternoon before noon. First of all, I'm curious to know the people in Melovi who work in the library world. I just have an idea. Public library. It's a majority. The other environments, we're not many, we can take a few seconds. Just which environment? Or what's the implication on the wiki? Education? Thank you. So, starting with some information on the library network in Montréal. So we have a network of 45 libraries that are distributed in the 19 areas of Montréal. Last year, we had 8.1 million visitors in the library, a little more, 8.8 million visitors online. An information, a statistic that I like, is the number of participants in our library activities over 577,000. 50,000, the vision and the role of the library in the 21st century. Obviously, the very important document, nearly 12 million. This is added to the Montréalers the offer of the great library of B1Q, which is the title of central library for Montréal. So, the library is wikipedia. Is it a love story? We know the wikipedia campaign M-Wikipedia. Some people say that the library is M-Wikipedia, but this one, it wasn't the foothold at the beginning. Far from there. The first reaction of the world of biotech during the birth of wiki in 2001 was very negative. By the way, from 2005, several studies in science and information analyzed this project in collaborative slope and questioned the quality of wiki content. They questioned its spread, its actuality, its feasibility, as well as its status of reference work in the usual sense of the term. Well, what you have to see is that there was on the one hand an influence on the quality. We need to remember that we are in the first years of wiki, we talked about it this morning, but on the other hand, we have to admit that for biotech and biotechers, it was a bit of their habit, it was questioning the role of biotech and the role of biotechers. It prevents that a few years later, from 2010, glam-type projects start at the British Library with a first experience of wikipedia in residence, which has raised a number of collaborative opportunities between wiki and memory institutions. The advantages in terms of appreciation of heritage and digital collections have contributed to dissipating mistrust, at the same time that reserves on the quality of content that tends to fall at that moment. There have been other initiatives, a local scale, which involves biotech and university and public, it has taken shape around 2012, especially through the contribution day of the state, of the Titian Marathon, the activities that continue today to be multiplied through the world. So the first rendezvous in Quebec. It is first through the contribution day at the local scale that the first collaborations between wikipedia and the biotech world will be held. The first that we thought of was a contribution day dedicated to Jean-Talon, the first member of New France, which took place at the University of Laval in February 2012. A year later, at the Milen biotech, today Mont-de-Garre-Richelor in Montreal, is the first activity of Titian Marathon in public biotech in Quebec. The activity at the time, on the Milen project, is supported by the Milen Memory Organization and Wikimedia Canada. The biotech has put its space and documentation on the district at the disposal of citizens, and there was a network library that participated in the activity. We will see later this type of activity with the district's organisers, it is very promising and it is very rewarding. Later, at the same time, during a day in the International Month of Fracophane Contribution, at the BNQ, there is a contribution workshop that will initiate a long collaboration held in this institution and Wikimedia Foundation. We talked a little bit this morning during the lecture conference. The first BNQ event has become, and is in some way the launch of the WIKI Tuesdays, which is held every first Tuesday of the month since 2014. Since then, BNQ has become one of the most active Canadian partners in the LAM project. So we are 2012-2013, more than 10 years after the WIKI creation, and this is where we see the first initiatives in Quebec in the same way. What is interesting is that these initiatives are still alive today, where we make small ones and we see that there is a very clear link between the first initiatives around 2012-2013. At the international level, the last years have been quite favorable for the collaboration between WIKI and libraries. IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations, produced in 2016 an opportunity study on the benefits of a collaboration with Wikipedia and invited libraries to engage in more to make their libraries a Wikipedian library. They have proposed activity examples that you can see on the screen, but the argument has put emphasis on the importance of WIKI, the Wikipedia tool as a source of information, but also as a platform for local culture and knowledge that is supported by public libraries. At the same time that IFLA launched this document, there was a campaign by the Federation, a second world contribution campaign to the community of libraries. The campaign encouraged libraries to add at least one source to the Enslopidi. Imagine a world where each library added a reference to Wikipedia, saying the hook of the seven campaigns. OCLC, more recently with OCLC, which is an online computer library center, an organization with a worldwide non-lucrative view on the use of libraries, they launched the Wikipedia project plus Bibiotech, in order to strengthen the links between American and Wikipedian public libraries. OCLC was also a wonderful site to meet certain people who would match libraries and Wikis. For them, it was a perfect match. A few examples of projects OCLC and Wikis, the Wikipedian library, work together to enable the editors to easily link Wikipedia's citations to millions of libraries' documents represented in WorldCAD. WorldCAD is the largest database in the world of library collections. OCLC will also offer a free online training of 10 weeks to about 500 members of the American library. It is a project funded by the Wikipedian Foundation and the Foundationite Foundation. So we assist the emergence of initiatives that are more and more structured and that are set up by the human libraries through local or international sessions. So, the reasons why libraries like or should like and Wikipedian. And for me, it is the essence of the message this morning. First, the convergence of emissions. We know that when we make a partnership, no matter the field, the most important thing is to ensure that our mission, our vision, are in convergence with the organization that we want to make a partnership. Then, at the level of Wikis and libraries, the partnership, the mission, the vision, the values, it is very strong, there is a strong convergence, and it is the free and universal access to knowledge. That is really what joins us the most. The vision of the Foundation, imagine a world where each human being can freely take part in the integrity of human knowledge. It is our commitment. At the level of the mission, to give possibilities to the people of the entire world to collect, develop educational content under the free license, where it is in the public domain and to distribute this content efficiently and globally. So for the libraries, we see a lot of convergence points. An example of our mission in Montreal, but the public libraries often have missions that are inspired by UNESCO, passionately involved in our neighborhoods, we could say our community, the Montreal libraries offer everyone access to reading, to information, to knowledge, to culture and to leisure. Among our values, we find collaboration and intellectual freedom. So convergence of missions. Fiat knowledge. We also talked this morning, the Wikipedians, like the libraries, love fiat knowledge. And it is particularly important at this time of false truth, of fake news, to ensure that the citizens are able to have a critical reflection on the sources of information and have reliable sources of information. Collections valorization. The Wikipedian activities are a great opportunity to use the collections and resources of the library and to promote the distribution and visibility to a wider public. Information literacy. And that's interesting because in a recent article, we indicated that 96% of the instructors in the university community think that Wikipedia is more useful to teach information literacy than the usual exercises or work. So these are activities that become a great way to improve the skills in information literacy to the public. Numerical literacy is one of the important points of the public library admissions recently. The students, we know, who often use libraries in need of support for the use of web technologies. So the Wikipedian workshops become a great opportunity to practice digital literacy interventions. What you need to note is that someone who is not necessarily motivated in the first place to say, I'm going to take a course of digital literacy, I'm going to come to the library for that. He may not be inscribed, but if there is a goal, an objective, like sharing the content that he holds in his heart, well, at this moment, he will be motivated to come to this workshop and we will have the taste of learning to use technologies. So it's really something to win, to win. The living reference, well, in the library, we know our works of traditional reference tend to disappear from the regions. And the contribution with Wikipedia is a way of renewing the reference and it is quite adapted for the needs of local training. Editorial and creative libraries, these activities are inscribed in the approach of the 21st century library. We support, we want, we have a vision of a library as a maker space, a place of active learning and a place of content creation. So we can imagine the link quite easily with Wikipedia. Public levels for both, that's once again winning, the coming of the Wikipedians brings new uses in the library, the content of Wikipedia's friendly events and maybe to generate new contributors who are called to become new users of libraries. The community role and the social role will be important to the public library, so community roles. The partnership, the work with Wikipedia favors the celebration of the community and the feeling of belonging to its neighborhood, to its community. In support of the territorial projects of contribution, it can be about subjects that interest the community or that concern the local identity. We see it as a memorial, we have 45 libraries that are well-planned in each district, so it's a link that is quite natural. Social inclusion, it also favors, in an explicit way, inclusion when the projects that are put on foot concern the implementation of communities that can be taken with systemic obstacles. We can think of projects that take place like feminist atoms or that carry on the first nations. So it's a top 10 and it could probably have other reasons, but from these elements, when people are just, well, libraries, why should we get involved or do things with Wikipedia, it seems to me 10 reasons quite strong. So, more recently in Montreal, what did we do? Well, at the beginning of 2016, we launched the call to the library of the Montreal network to offer contribution workshops that would take place on the last Thursday of the month. The program was called Thursdays and Weekies, and you understood it was an alternative, a Monday. On Tuesday, it was Wikie offering the BNQ. The library of the network, when we did the work, they responded very quickly. And then, in 2016, they published a complete list with 12 activities during the year. So we can see there was an interest already in the library. We can see here a few examples of activities that took place in libraries. It could be to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a library with the Antic History Society. It's about the famous women of the district. So we can see one of the common points, despite all the diversity of activities, it's the link with something local, with the people of the community. These initiatives will be held in most of the collaboration camps with the Café des Savoirs Libres, a collective that looks mainly passionate and engaged libraries. We'll talk about it a little later in another conference. In the meantime, we have a dozen participants of these events. And that's about what we can find in a traditional reading club. Other examples that have been made recently. In 2007, we changed the formula a little bit. The workshops were simply designed as Café des Savoirs Libres. And then we had a more flexible agenda. It didn't happen on Thursdays in the evening. In total, over the course of 18 months, about 20 workshops were made in the library of Montréal. So, what are the particularities? What are the contributory activities that we have implemented in Montréal? I'll talk about it more quickly because, just after me, François Charbonnier and Marie-Dé Martel have a communication that will be a question of different approaches. One element that we have to take out of our activities is that the fact that the students and the participants move almost every time in a new library. So, the little side of the digital community here. There are exceptions. Mandgarisla, which was the first library that you remember having done an activity, they have planned Café des Savoirs Libres activities in a regular way in the digital programming. The formula, too. It's a convivial formula. It's a formula based on a Café Conversation. The fact that it's a Café Conversation is less likely to be a computer laboratory where there is a professor in front and the students behind with computers. So, it makes sense that, when you take a... you install the philosophy of a Café... a non-co, if I may say, a traditional one, you have to think about how to manage it. You have to see how it can be inscribed within the library. So, that's one of the elements. Another element to take into consideration is that it's not all citizens and libraries that had departments to welcome these people. So, we equipped a portable fleet that also includes a library. It's a temporary solution as long as we can equip in a more important way the libraries. When you make an arrangement like that in a library for Café des Savoirs Libres, you understand that, of course, you inform the citizens who may be present, who don't come for the activity, who are going to have an activity, but it can also allow them to just listen and eventually participate and become people who will follow Café des Savoirs Libres. Another particularity or element to note is the collaboration between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. It adds to the offer, to the supply, to the transmission of knowledge concerning the free cartography. And, a partnership with the History Society, in each place where you find a History Society that was active, that was involved, the workshops contributed a lot of interest to the part of the Society, to the part of the people who frequent it and all sorts of possibilities between the History Society and the libraries. Obviously, working in this way, too, with different libraries, it allowed a co-apprentice to the staff of the libraries of Montreal. Beyond Montreal, the public libraries of Quebec have also demonstrated their interest in engaging in this way and the President of the Wikicanada Foundation has been invited to relate the Quebec initiative during the public libraries meeting of 2016, organized by the BBQ and the Bibliothèque de Montréal. The winning conditions, or we could roughly talk about the essential conditions in certain cases, to deploy these activities in the library, it looks like, on the one hand, the opening hours that take place in the evening. The activities are mainly in the evening, so the opening hours have to be quite extended to welcome this activity. The equipment, we talked about it earlier, the Wi-Fi portables. A space. The space, we automatically think when we talk about a project like that in an informatic laboratory, but in a more convenient way, it's better to do... It's more optimal in an open space in the library. When I mentioned it, yes, there is a relationship with the other citizens who are on site, the other users, but it really favors the collaboration, the participation, the contribution of each one under this form. The personal mobilization. We saw when we did the first rough, the libraries were very interested, they quickly responded, but it may even have a certain number of challenges. So one of the things to do is to offer training. It ensures that people are well trained in reducing the contribution, but it's also important, I would say, that the approach, the philosophy is that of a new relationship of collaboration and co-creation between the library, the citizens and the organisms. And in part, I talked about it a little earlier. Thank you. So some clues to conclude. The clues that are explored here for the rest of the projects of the Bibliothèque de Montréal, the Wikipedia, it is inscribed in the continuity. We are in line with the efforts more to support local associations, I think, and international. So what we want to do is to make a new call to everyone to learn the contributive workshops in the libraries of Montréal. In line with the mobilization of the staff, a day of bibliothèque and Wikipedia training, so to reduce the reduction of contribution in the end of the day, expose the opportunity of collaboration, as well as the interest in encouraging the emergence of projects from the district, from the community. Developing a weekly reflection. Among other things, the event initiative. When we say we're going to do a weekly project, we're going to deploy a new project to add to the long list of activities that are already programmed in the libraries. But if we are in the process of having a weekly reflection, we can, in a program, a series of activities, add a weekly activity within that program. What we did, for example, during the month of ABD, or during a day for women's day, an activity for women's day. What we would like to do, for example, is a special free knowledge café for the hundreds of libraries of Montréal, the central library. A thematic contributive workshop to enhance the content surrounding the Montréal library that makes its 100th anniversary this year. We could, for example, on the occasion of a reflection day, have biotech historians, people from the public biotech community, and have this weekly contributive workshop. Located on the presence of the literary culture in Montreal and Quebec, as well as the local history on Wikipedia, we worked with the media in terms of promoting literature, the association of writers, as well as the local associations. People have a hard time on this subject, and they will easily contribute and be involved in it. The enrichment of pages related to literary culture in the local history offers exciting future collaborations and, in addition, is in force with the historical mission of the libraries. Moreover, the literary pages of Wikipedia now contribute a new way of supporting and practicing the reference in the networks. The libraries and their readers win by creating quality content. It can be authors' pages, lists, or anything else. They can be found with the help of the resources intended to feed their pleasure of reading. Once again, everyone wins. This morning, biotechers are present probably because they already have an interest in wiki. People who are here may be interested in biotech. But you have to find ways to make this message beyond a conference that attracts people who are already involved. These are things we can have with the Quebec organizations or with the network to mobilize more people to understand the importance and the most value of collaborating in a more important way with wiki. In general, I am convinced that we can say that the future of liberal and common knowledge of the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation and the biotech of Montréal has a lot of potential and it will pass through the metaphor. It is a story of love that will become quite fantastic. In short, we mentioned the importance of the involvement of biotechers as a success factor. In Montréal, we are lucky there are many of these biotechers who are very committed. I would like to thank all of them but I would like to highlight the commitment and contribution of biotechers in particular for the projects and for the presentation this morning. Thank you. Thank you all. I think that with a few moments for comments is it over? One question? Yes. With the French National Library where it has been 10 years but it will not last for a long time and in my opinion it is a bit disappointing in terms of results and since then we have been able to respond to the French National Library in this way. The challenges for public libraries and national libraries so it can be a way to join another public and another type of content to work with public libraries. It is over so thank you. I'm going to see you. Do we have to use Estonia? Yes, Yvonne could you tell us your order? This is the hotel. It is because you told us that you had to bring it. The presentation, you could put it here. Yes. I'm going to take the order. Are you going to take the order? Yes. I'm going to take the order.