User:Amathist1998



Hello,

Thank you for dropping by my user page. My name is Ann-Marie Cherilyn Buckle and my username on Wikia is Amathist1998.

I consider myself a helper and love working in helping others, but I choose to spend more time managing the GLAM-WIKI helpdesk than submitting articles for publication in scholarly journals because I believe that RMoutreach embodies this value that academia too often neglects: GLAM-WIKI is for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. In the humanities division of academia, we still hold to the ideal of the lone genius, expecting that each humanities scholar be the sole author of his or her journal articles. In the sciences and social sciences, we expect that there be two or three authors for each journal article. As a GLAM-WIKI support member, every well-developed article on RMwiki has many more than three authors. The result is an ever-increasingly accurate approximation of objectivity. This objectivity is not the pseudo-objectivity that results from ignoring our biases as authors, but is rather the result of diverse perspectives all being covered proportionally through discussion between people who have those diverse perspectives. We write better when we write together.