Librarian
Samantha Kannegiser
Contact:
Samantha Kannegiser
Student Success Librarian
Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers-Camden
300 N. 4th St.
Camden, NJ 08201
Student Success Librarian
Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers-Camden
300 N. 4th St.
Camden, NJ 08201
856.225.2832
Website
For virtual edit-a-thons, online resources are useful in finding information to add to articles. A librarian or staff member will help you navigate any resources during the event. You are also encouraged to bring any resources you think will be useful!
Suggested Articles to Edit
The Library hosts Edit-a-Thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of local Camden, NJ history. The following articles are good starting points:
- Neighborhoods within Camden
- Broadway (article needed)
- Center City/Downtown
- Central Waterfront
- Cramer Hill
- Parkside
- North Camden
- and many others!
- Camden, NJ (already robust, but may have room for new details)
- WikiVoyage: Camden, NJ
- Do section
- Buy section
- Eat section
- Paul Robeson
- List of stub articles related to New Jersey
- Photos you've taken of Camden streets, buildings, events, etc. can be added to Wikimedia
Resources for Editing the Articles
Library Resources
- Selected Twentieth-Century Historical Data: City of Camden, New Jersey
- Parkside: the Story of a Neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, before 1946
- Historical Sketch of Camden, N.J.
Open Online Resources
- Camden, NJ Google News
- Camden, NJ in Encyclopaedia of Britannica
- American FactFinder: Camden, NJ
- City of Camden: History
- The Old Houses in Camden, New Jersey
- Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, New Jersey (1890)
- Old Ferries, Camden, New Jersey: an address delivered before the Camden County Historical Society (1921)
- History of the press in Camden County, New Jersey, by Charles S. Boyer (1921)
- Revolutionary reminiscences of Camden County :(originally part of "Old Gloucester") state of New Jersey (1876)
- Sketch of Camden City, N.J. with a view to business by a looker-on (1873)