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;“A significant step towards a sustainable partnership”: Ally Crockford and the National Library of Scotland
''This post was written by Joe Sutherland''


[[File:Andrew_Gray_at_Wikimedia_UK_Ada_Lovelace_Day_editathon_2.JPG|thumb||right|200px|A photo from a Women in Science editing event]]
[[File:National Library of Scotland - The GLAM-Wiki Revolution.webm|thumb|thumbtime=2:38|right|300px|Watch the video about the partnership with the National Library of Scotland. Also available [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugufYet2rc on YouTube]]]


''This post was written by Wikimedia UK's fundraising team''
Ally Crockford has spent a great deal of time researching in the National Library of Scotland – eight years, in fact – so when the opportunity to open its content for a wider audience came along she jumped at it. “What drew me to working here is the love that I have for the library,” she explains. “I’ve worked here for the last eight years as a researcher and I think it’s an amazing organisation.”


This week is "[http://www.rememberacharity.org.uk/ Remember a Charity in Your Will Week]". Wikimedia UK supports this national campaign to encourage this type of giving; Remember a Charity was set up in 2001 to address the fact that while 74% of the UK population support charities, only 6% currently leave a legacy to them when writing a will.
“When I saw the call for a Wikimedian I thought it was an amazing opportunity, because I know how much material is here in the library and how few people get to access that material regularly. To be able to provide access to the collections was wonderful.”


We are very grateful to the people that make our work growing and supporting the Wikimedian movement in the UK possible, and we'd like to offer more options in how you choose to support us by leaving a small amount to us in a will, or letting us know if this is something you have already decided to do.
A room full of books has essentially become her habitat by this point. Though originally from Canada, Ally received her PhD in English literature from Edinburgh University, and throughout the programme was heavily involved with the library. Since July 2013, Ally has served as Wikimedian in Residence there.


Donations to Wikimedia UK fund valuable projects such as our Wikimedians in Residence at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wiki_at_Royal_Society_John Royal Society] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_CRUK Cancer Research UK], promoting digital literacy through Wikimedia and also running regular events such as our upcoming [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/Institute_of_Classical_Studies_Sep_2014 Women in Classicism] editathon.
During her tenure, Ally has worked on several projects aiming to extend the reach of the library’s content to a wider, global audience. One of the projects of which she is most proud was the Anybody But Burns editathon, a quest to fill Wikipedia with information about Scottish poets who don’t have the recognition that Robert Burns enjoys. <span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/09/ally-crockford-national-library-of-scotland/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
 
If you are interested in making an arrangement, or telling us that you have arranged this particularly special kind of gift to make our shared vision of free and open knowledge live on, please do get in touch with Katherine, our Fundraising Manager, by emailing Katherine.Bavage{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk. If you let us know about a gift in your will we can keep you updated on what we are achieving and the type of work your legacy will support.
 
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