I, User:Stevenmg, am an employee of the University of California Riverside, a cultural institution per WP:GLAM. I accept the editing conditions specified at that page. I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia. I will uphold the community policies laid down by WP:GLAM. My main edits for the University of California Riverside pages will consist of the following activities:
Editing and/or creating articles related to individuals, organizations, or social movements documented in the rare books, manuscript collections, and archives held by the University of California Riverside
Editing and/or creating articles related to individuals, organizations, or social movements documented in the specialized secondary source collections held by the University of California Riverside.
I will modify my editing behavior based on problems cited by other editors or if my editing conflicts with other Wikipedia guidelines. I ask that other editors do not hesitate to contact me, via my user talk page, if I appear to be going against this declaration. Signature Stevenmg (talk) 23:33, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.
Stevenmg is an academic librarian with extensive expertise in manuscripts, archives, digital collections, and descriptive practices (cataloging/metadata). His career has focused largely on documenting, preserving, and providing access to the history of the Mexican American experience in the United States; the Gay and Lesbian experience in the United States; as well as the experience of other non-majority groups.
Added Archival Resources, Added biographical narrative culled from Finding Aid for the Joan E. Biren Papers, Added citations, Fixed broken link to Queerly Visible exhibit catalog
