What a way to end Women's History Month with a notice about an emerging leader in the library profession.
The New Members Round Table (NMRT) is announcing that Janel White, Broadcast Librarian at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship to sponsor her participation in the American Library Association’s Emerging Leaders Program.
White applied to participate in the Emerging Leaders program out of a desire to give back to ALA, the library community, and her patrons. “ As a librarian, it is my duty to not only serve my patrons but also the field of library science by constantly evolving, overcoming challenges, exploring new ideas and contributing to the profession,” says White. “Attending both the mid-winter and annual meetings as well as networking with my peers as part of this program will prove to be an invaluable experience for me in fostering further techniques of critical inquiry, developing the willingness to examine complex issues and improving my ability to communicate effectively.”
To read further, go to the American Library Association's web site, www.ala.org.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Women's Roles in WWII
Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions about women laborers in the wartime industry is that, before the war, they were all housewives unfamiliar with work outside the home. It is true that approximately 5 million women who entered the labor force between the years 1940 and 1944 were first-time workers, many of them married, white, middle-class women responding to government recruitment campaigns directed at homemakers. Still, in total, some 19 million women worked for wages during the war years. Roughly three-quarters of these women had known wage work before World War II; the war industries provided lots of sought-after employment for the many women who had been laid off during the years of the Great Depression, and offered career opportunities, higher wages, and new challenges for the millions in low-paying or mundane positions.
To read further, see www.shmoop.com.
To read further, see www.shmoop.com.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
And the Awards Keep Coming
Well-known librarian, educator and tireless reading advocate Nancy Pearl has been selected the winner of the 2010 Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award, an honor administered annually by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA).
The Monroe Award honors a librarian, library and information science researcher or educator who has made a significant contribution to library adult services. Pearl has an extensive career in librarianship and most recently was, until August 2004, the executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. During her time there, she expanded readers’ advisory services beyond the library walls with the establishment of the One Book/One City reading event, which became a model for similar events now held around the country. Since 1993, Pearl has also taught readers’ advisory and genre literature courses at the University of Washington’s ISchool.
To read further, go to the American Library Association's web site, www.ala.org.
The Monroe Award honors a librarian, library and information science researcher or educator who has made a significant contribution to library adult services. Pearl has an extensive career in librarianship and most recently was, until August 2004, the executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. During her time there, she expanded readers’ advisory services beyond the library walls with the establishment of the One Book/One City reading event, which became a model for similar events now held around the country. Since 1993, Pearl has also taught readers’ advisory and genre literature courses at the University of Washington’s ISchool.
To read further, go to the American Library Association's web site, www.ala.org.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Women in Colonial America
Marie Daucks was a twenty-five year old widow when she signed up to go to Jamestown. Barbara Burchens was just seventeen and unmarried when she decided to travel across the ocean. They were among the 57 'maids' sent to Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1621 in an effort to raise morale and improve the quality of life in the struggling colony.
It was not the first time the company had tried to do something about the gender imbalance in the colony. But earlier efforts had met neither success nor approval; too few women were sent, the men complained, and even by Virginia's standards they left a lot to be desired. So this time around, the company was more selective in its recruitment. The young women had to present letters of recommendation—letters which spoke to their character and domestic skills. As a result, the women who made the trip were far from the most desperate of England's poor. Among the 57 women sent in 1621 were eight with ties to the English gentry; another twelve were the daughters of artisans. Ranging in ages from 15 to 28, with an average age of twenty, these women could not be classified as destitute. But they were united by a certain disadvantage—virtually all were economically vulnerable. The group included only two widows, but there were numerous orphans and several young women that had recently lost their fathers. While not the most desperate of London's poor, the girls and women who decided to go to Jamestown faced an uncertain future in England.
To read further, go to www.shmoop.com.
It was not the first time the company had tried to do something about the gender imbalance in the colony. But earlier efforts had met neither success nor approval; too few women were sent, the men complained, and even by Virginia's standards they left a lot to be desired. So this time around, the company was more selective in its recruitment. The young women had to present letters of recommendation—letters which spoke to their character and domestic skills. As a result, the women who made the trip were far from the most desperate of England's poor. Among the 57 women sent in 1621 were eight with ties to the English gentry; another twelve were the daughters of artisans. Ranging in ages from 15 to 28, with an average age of twenty, these women could not be classified as destitute. But they were united by a certain disadvantage—virtually all were economically vulnerable. The group included only two widows, but there were numerous orphans and several young women that had recently lost their fathers. While not the most desperate of London's poor, the girls and women who decided to go to Jamestown faced an uncertain future in England.
To read further, go to www.shmoop.com.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Women Muckrakers & Reformers
Women played an integral role in the Progressive movement. Longstanding social traditions held that women were uniquely predisposed to maintain the moral center for their families. They were supposed to be purer, less vulnerable to temptation than men; especially since men were supposed to go to work in the vice-infested public sphere, while wives remained cloistered within the moral bastion of the home. Since women were also deemed responsible for raising children, they assumed the role of teachers and guardians of Christian virtues and values. Though these same religious teachings implied that women should be obedient wives and subservient individuals, ironically, they also provided a socially acceptable venue in which females could assume an active role in public life. That is, women could transgress traditional gender roles in the name of safeguarding other, more sacred traditions like Christian piety and social morality. In the long term, Progressive women were successful on several counts, but in their success lay unimagined troubles and complications
For more, read on at www.shmoop.com.
For more, read on at www.shmoop.com.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Another Librarian Does Well
Mara Dabrishus, a reference librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and a librarian at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, put lasting images from a childhood spent following racing to good use and beat out an award-laden field of finalists to win the ninth biennial THOROUGHBRED TIMES Fiction Contest in her first attempt.
Dabrishus’ story “Whirlaway” was selected as the best of the 62 stories submitted for the contest. Dabrishus earns $600 for winning the 2010 contest.
For the complete story, see the American Library Association's web site at http://www.ala.org/.
Dabrishus’ story “Whirlaway” was selected as the best of the 62 stories submitted for the contest. Dabrishus earns $600 for winning the 2010 contest.
For the complete story, see the American Library Association's web site at http://www.ala.org/.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
COSWL Celebrates National Women’s History Month
During the entire month of March, the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) will recognize and celebrate women’s historic achievements with National Women’s History Month. The observance also provides an opportunity to honor women within our families and communities.
National Women’s History Month traces its origins back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was later observed in 1909. In 1981, the U.S. Congress designated the second week of March National Women's History Week, and in 1987 Congress expanded it to a month-long observance.
COSWL was established by the ALA Council on July 23, 1976, to officially represent the diversity of women’s interests within ALA and to ensure that the Association considers the rights of the majority (women) in the library field.
For further information, go to the American Library Association's web site, www.ala.org.
National Women’s History Month traces its origins back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was later observed in 1909. In 1981, the U.S. Congress designated the second week of March National Women's History Week, and in 1987 Congress expanded it to a month-long observance.
COSWL was established by the ALA Council on July 23, 1976, to officially represent the diversity of women’s interests within ALA and to ensure that the Association considers the rights of the majority (women) in the library field.
For further information, go to the American Library Association's web site, www.ala.org.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Another Award Winner
Michèle V. Cloonan, dean and professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, is the recipient of the 2010 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award. The award, consisting of $1,500 and a citation, sponsored by Preservation Technologies, L. P., recognizes the contribution of a professional preservation specialist who has been active in the field of preservation and/or conservation for library and/or archival materials. The award will be presented on Sunday, June 27, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2010 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
Cloonan's academic and practical accomplishments represent a long, diverse and extremely active career dedicated to promoting preservation in practice, theory and graduate- and doctoral-level education. Since she began her career in 1974, Dr. Cloonan’s major accomplishments include: her extensive research and publications, which form a major contribution to the literature of the profession; her incomparable influence and leadership in the field of preservation education and curriculum development for preservation in library science programs nationwide; and her active role as a leader in preservation organizations and efforts, a testament to her commitment to the profession.
For more information, go to the American Library Association's web site, www.ala.org.
Cloonan's academic and practical accomplishments represent a long, diverse and extremely active career dedicated to promoting preservation in practice, theory and graduate- and doctoral-level education. Since she began her career in 1974, Dr. Cloonan’s major accomplishments include: her extensive research and publications, which form a major contribution to the literature of the profession; her incomparable influence and leadership in the field of preservation education and curriculum development for preservation in library science programs nationwide; and her active role as a leader in preservation organizations and efforts, a testament to her commitment to the profession.
For more information, go to the American Library Association's web site, www.ala.org.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Early Women Patriots
"When Parliament passed duties on tea, among other items, in the Townshend Act of 1767, female Patriots banded together to support and uphold the colonial boycott. American newspapers praised the ladies who sipped coffee or local herbal teas in place of the British imports. Poetesses sent their verses to the local gazettes in order to express their heartfelt devotion to the cause and their determination not to submit to the fastening of "Chains upon my country."144 In North Carolina, 51 women signed an agreement in October 1774 declaring their "sincere adherence" to Congress's resolves and pledging to do "every thing as lies in our power" to support the "publick [sic] good."145 These women proclaimed their patriotism while simultaneously declaring their intention—and even their right—to participate in the traditionally male realm of public policy."
To read more about this fascinating part of our history, go to www.shmoop.com.
To read more about this fascinating part of our history, go to www.shmoop.com.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Female Poet of the Day- Anne Sexton
You could think of Anne Sexton as Betty Draper: beautiful, smart, and deeply, deeply unhappy. Like our favorite Mad Men heroines, Sexton was a model as a young woman, married early, and tried her hardest to be happy as a housewife. Like Betty, though, Sexton quickly realized that a that pretty little home in the 'burbs wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Her poetry lays bare all of the ways that her life has been punctuated by mental illness and circumscribed by rigid definitions of what a woman "should" do or think or believe.
Sexton's name is right up there with a handful of other poets as one of the most-read poets of the twentieth century. Her name gets also gets coupled with Sylvia Plath's just about all the time. Maybe it's because they both killed themselves. Maybe it's because they both wrote in the twentieth century. Here at Shmoop, though, we like to think that it's because they both explored the complicated role that women played in the mid-twentieth century.
Funny thing is, Sexton tends to get a bad rap from critics – both when she first published and, well, now. Apparently her no-holds-barred emotional tell-all makes some people a little bit uneasy. Maybe it's the fact that her confessional style isn't disguised by ornate turns of phrase or any of the formal tricks that so many poets tend to have up their sleeves. Maybe it's just that we all tend to get a bit weirded out when someone we've never even met starts spilling serious dirt.
Whatever it is, "Her Kind" is quintessential Sexton – so if you're not sure whether you're a Sexton fan or foe, this poem is a good litmus test. It's the sort of poem Sexton's known for: deep emotions, straight-speaking, and a healthy dose of social critique.
Published in 1960, "Her Kind" was part of the collection To Bedlam and Part Way Back. For those of you who haven't kept up with your nineteenth-century history, "Bedlam" was the nickname for one of London's most notorious mental institutions. We're guessing that Sexton chose to reference Bedlam in the title of her first collection because, as it turns out, she began writing while spending time in a mental institution. Choosing to describe her collection as a trip "part way back" to mental health allowed Sexton to shock her readers even as she confessed her ongoing depression and sense of social alienation.
So: is Sexton making literary bank off of her own misery? Or is she just trying to find a public voice for issues which no one seems to want to talk about? Well, that's up to you…
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Sexton's name is right up there with a handful of other poets as one of the most-read poets of the twentieth century. Her name gets also gets coupled with Sylvia Plath's just about all the time. Maybe it's because they both killed themselves. Maybe it's because they both wrote in the twentieth century. Here at Shmoop, though, we like to think that it's because they both explored the complicated role that women played in the mid-twentieth century.
Funny thing is, Sexton tends to get a bad rap from critics – both when she first published and, well, now. Apparently her no-holds-barred emotional tell-all makes some people a little bit uneasy. Maybe it's the fact that her confessional style isn't disguised by ornate turns of phrase or any of the formal tricks that so many poets tend to have up their sleeves. Maybe it's just that we all tend to get a bit weirded out when someone we've never even met starts spilling serious dirt.
Whatever it is, "Her Kind" is quintessential Sexton – so if you're not sure whether you're a Sexton fan or foe, this poem is a good litmus test. It's the sort of poem Sexton's known for: deep emotions, straight-speaking, and a healthy dose of social critique.
Published in 1960, "Her Kind" was part of the collection To Bedlam and Part Way Back. For those of you who haven't kept up with your nineteenth-century history, "Bedlam" was the nickname for one of London's most notorious mental institutions. We're guessing that Sexton chose to reference Bedlam in the title of her first collection because, as it turns out, she began writing while spending time in a mental institution. Choosing to describe her collection as a trip "part way back" to mental health allowed Sexton to shock her readers even as she confessed her ongoing depression and sense of social alienation.
So: is Sexton making literary bank off of her own misery? Or is she just trying to find a public voice for issues which no one seems to want to talk about? Well, that's up to you…
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Friday, March 12, 2010
And a Little More About the Women's Movement in America
Americans were slow to apply their egalitarian principles to women; for decades after the Revolutionary War, few people in this nation founded on the principle that "all men are created equal" challenged the fact that women possessed few political or legal rights. But during the 1830s, women in the abolitionist movement discovered that even forward-thinking male reformers believed that women should take a backseat to men, and the women's movement was born.
Advocates of women's rights held their first convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Participants in the convention nursed varying agendas—property rights, divorce reform, increased educational opportunities, and even dress reform were all among the objectives activists pursued. Only a minority shared Elizabeth Cady Stanton's belief that women should concentrate on winning the right to vote. But by the end of the century, women's suffrage had become the centerpiece of the women's movement.
After ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment finally gave women the right to vote in 1919, the movement made only minor progress. The Equal Rights Amendment, drafted in 1923, was buried in congressional committee as the Great Depression and World War II consumed Americans' attention.
But in 1963, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, sparking the modern women's movement. This new movement failed to achieve one of its greatest objectives: ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Still, it made enormous progress by fighting employment discrimination, advancing educational opportunities, and protecting reproductive rights.
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Advocates of women's rights held their first convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Participants in the convention nursed varying agendas—property rights, divorce reform, increased educational opportunities, and even dress reform were all among the objectives activists pursued. Only a minority shared Elizabeth Cady Stanton's belief that women should concentrate on winning the right to vote. But by the end of the century, women's suffrage had become the centerpiece of the women's movement.
After ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment finally gave women the right to vote in 1919, the movement made only minor progress. The Equal Rights Amendment, drafted in 1923, was buried in congressional committee as the Great Depression and World War II consumed Americans' attention.
But in 1963, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, sparking the modern women's movement. This new movement failed to achieve one of its greatest objectives: ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Still, it made enormous progress by fighting employment discrimination, advancing educational opportunities, and protecting reproductive rights.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
How it All Got Started
History of Women’s History Month
By Kay Ann Cassell and Kathleen Weibel
The roots of National Women’s History Month go back to “Women’s History Week,” first celebrated in Sonoma County, California, in 1978. This public celebration was scheduled around March 8, International Women’s Day, long celebrated in socialist countries, but not in the U.S. despite the fact that the first International Women’s Day was held in the United States in 1909 honoring a women’s garment workers strike of the previous year.
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter issued a Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980, as the first National Women’s History Week and women’s history celebrations were quickly adapted in many communities and organizations. In 1981, the unlikely combination of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and then–Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) cosponsored a joint congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women’s History Week. Six years later, Congress expanded the celebration to the entire month of March; the National Women’s History Project, which spearheaded the creation of National Women’s History Month and coordinates annual themes, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2010.
The United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, 1975, during the U.N. International Women’s Year and encouraged member states to establish a similar day on a date appropriate to their traditions. Celebration of International Women’s Day has extended to over 60 nations, although not always on the same date. To sample some of these celebrations, explore the over 900 programs listed for 2009 at the International Women’s Day website, a “service to women around the world wanting to share and promote their IWD activity, videos, opinions, and ideas” provided for free since 2001 by Aurora, a British marketing company.
By Kay Ann Cassell and Kathleen Weibel
"How Recognition of Herstory Got Started"
The roots of National Women’s History Month go back to “Women’s History Week,” first celebrated in Sonoma County, California, in 1978. This public celebration was scheduled around March 8, International Women’s Day, long celebrated in socialist countries, but not in the U.S. despite the fact that the first International Women’s Day was held in the United States in 1909 honoring a women’s garment workers strike of the previous year.
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter issued a Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980, as the first National Women’s History Week and women’s history celebrations were quickly adapted in many communities and organizations. In 1981, the unlikely combination of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and then–Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) cosponsored a joint congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women’s History Week. Six years later, Congress expanded the celebration to the entire month of March; the National Women’s History Project, which spearheaded the creation of National Women’s History Month and coordinates annual themes, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2010.
The United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, 1975, during the U.N. International Women’s Year and encouraged member states to establish a similar day on a date appropriate to their traditions. Celebration of International Women’s Day has extended to over 60 nations, although not always on the same date. To sample some of these celebrations, explore the over 900 programs listed for 2009 at the International Women’s Day website, a “service to women around the world wanting to share and promote their IWD activity, videos, opinions, and ideas” provided for free since 2001 by Aurora, a British marketing company.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Another Award Winner
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is announcing that Olivia Marie A. Madison, dean of the library, Iowa State University, is the recipient of the 2010 Margaret Mann Citation presented by its Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS).
The award will be presented on Sunday, June 27, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2010 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The Mann Citation, recognizing outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification, includes a $2,000 scholarship donated in the recipient’s honor by OCLC, Inc. to the library school of the winner’s choice. Ms. Madison has chosen the University of Missouri School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, Library Science Graduate Program to be the recipient of this year’s scholarship award.
Madison is recognized for having exercised decisive leadership in the development and management of cataloging throughout a long and distinguished career. She has served as both secretary and chair of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA), where she played a key role in the ongoing development of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. As a long-standing member of IFLA’s Standing Committee of the Section on Cataloguing, Olivia served two two-year terms as chair of the Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. (These terms were interrupted by a two-year term as chair of the Standing Committee of the Section of Cataloging.) The work of this group has been broadly influential in shaping the development of several international cataloging codes including Resource Description and Access (RDA). More recently, Ms. Madison served as co-chair of the Library of Congress’s Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The conclusions of this diversely constituted group are likely to have widespread effects on the future of cataloging at the Library of Congress, nationally and internationally.
The Margaret Mann Citation Jury is pleased to honor Ms. Madison for her dedication, persistence and exemplary cataloging expertise that has helped direct high-level groups with difficult charges toward extremely productive outcomes.
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital and print formats.
The award will be presented on Sunday, June 27, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2010 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The Mann Citation, recognizing outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification, includes a $2,000 scholarship donated in the recipient’s honor by OCLC, Inc. to the library school of the winner’s choice. Ms. Madison has chosen the University of Missouri School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, Library Science Graduate Program to be the recipient of this year’s scholarship award.
Madison is recognized for having exercised decisive leadership in the development and management of cataloging throughout a long and distinguished career. She has served as both secretary and chair of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA), where she played a key role in the ongoing development of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. As a long-standing member of IFLA’s Standing Committee of the Section on Cataloguing, Olivia served two two-year terms as chair of the Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. (These terms were interrupted by a two-year term as chair of the Standing Committee of the Section of Cataloging.) The work of this group has been broadly influential in shaping the development of several international cataloging codes including Resource Description and Access (RDA). More recently, Ms. Madison served as co-chair of the Library of Congress’s Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The conclusions of this diversely constituted group are likely to have widespread effects on the future of cataloging at the Library of Congress, nationally and internationally.
The Margaret Mann Citation Jury is pleased to honor Ms. Madison for her dedication, persistence and exemplary cataloging expertise that has helped direct high-level groups with difficult charges toward extremely productive outcomes.
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital and print formats.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Women's Studies Award
Cindy Ingold, women and gender resources librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the 2010 winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women’s Studies Section (WSS) Career Achievement Award. The award, sponsored by ABC-CLIO, honors significant long-standing contributions to women’s studies in the field of librarianship over the course of a career.
A cash prize of $1,000 and a plaque will be presented to Ingold at the WSS Program at 8 a.m. on June 28 during the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
“Cindy has continuously demonstrated significant contributions and dedication to Women’s Studies librarianship, including her extensive service to WSS and ACRL, as well as her exemplary publications,” said Diana King, chair of the WSS award committee and associate librarian at the UCLA Arts Library. “These include her co-editorship of “Women’s Studies: A Recommended Bibliography” (2004), co-editorship and article contribution to a special issue of Library Trends on “Gender Issues in Information Needs and Services” and numerous other publications and presentations.
“Her work to successfully move an under-utilized departmental library into an integrated and circulating collection was also particularly cited in her nomination, as were her notable efforts in outreach to students and faculty in Women’s Studies and LGBT Studies programs.”
Ingold received her B.A. in History and her M.A. in English from Western Illinois University. She earned her M.A. in Library Science from the University of Missouri.
ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, representing more than academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.
A cash prize of $1,000 and a plaque will be presented to Ingold at the WSS Program at 8 a.m. on June 28 during the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
“Cindy has continuously demonstrated significant contributions and dedication to Women’s Studies librarianship, including her extensive service to WSS and ACRL, as well as her exemplary publications,” said Diana King, chair of the WSS award committee and associate librarian at the UCLA Arts Library. “These include her co-editorship of “Women’s Studies: A Recommended Bibliography” (2004), co-editorship and article contribution to a special issue of Library Trends on “Gender Issues in Information Needs and Services” and numerous other publications and presentations.
“Her work to successfully move an under-utilized departmental library into an integrated and circulating collection was also particularly cited in her nomination, as were her notable efforts in outreach to students and faculty in Women’s Studies and LGBT Studies programs.”
Ingold received her B.A. in History and her M.A. in English from Western Illinois University. She earned her M.A. in Library Science from the University of Missouri.
ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, representing more than academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
New Teen Editor
Throughout "Women's History Month" I'll be highlighting women from various fields of interests. (Of course there'll be a heavy emphasis on librianship!).
Today, I introduce you to a young lady who's taking on some new editorial reins.
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), will launch the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults in fall 2010. The association named Jessica Moyer, a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, as the journal’s editor.
The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults will be an online research journal, disseminating research of interest to librarians, library workers and academics who focus on library service to young adults, ages 12 through 18. It will serve as the official research publication of the association,publishing annotated lists of recent research from YALSA’s Research Committee, Henne Award–winning research and papers from YALSA’s biennial Young Adult Literature Symposium. For more information on the journal, visit http://tinyurl.com/yalsaresearchjournal. Submission guidelines will be posted in spring 2010.
“I'm really excited about the chance to work with YALSA and promote research on teens and library services,” said Moyer. “As a proponent of digital literacy I'm especially pleased to see YALSA creating an online-only journal. I see so many exciting possibilities for this format.”
Moyer is an experienced YALSA member who has served on the division’s publications committee and presented at multiple conferences. She is the author of “Research-Based Readers’ Advisory” (ALA Editions, 2008) and co-editor of “The Readers’ Advisory Handbook” (ALA Editions 2010). She also served on the editorial boards of Reference & User Services Quarterly, Reference Books Bulletin and Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Her dissertation focuses on teen reading in print, e-book and audiobook formats.
Today, I introduce you to a young lady who's taking on some new editorial reins.
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), will launch the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults in fall 2010. The association named Jessica Moyer, a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, as the journal’s editor.
The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults will be an online research journal, disseminating research of interest to librarians, library workers and academics who focus on library service to young adults, ages 12 through 18. It will serve as the official research publication of the association,publishing annotated lists of recent research from YALSA’s Research Committee, Henne Award–winning research and papers from YALSA’s biennial Young Adult Literature Symposium. For more information on the journal, visit http://tinyurl.com/yalsaresearchjournal. Submission guidelines will be posted in spring 2010.
“I'm really excited about the chance to work with YALSA and promote research on teens and library services,” said Moyer. “As a proponent of digital literacy I'm especially pleased to see YALSA creating an online-only journal. I see so many exciting possibilities for this format.”
Moyer is an experienced YALSA member who has served on the division’s publications committee and presented at multiple conferences. She is the author of “Research-Based Readers’ Advisory” (ALA Editions, 2008) and co-editor of “The Readers’ Advisory Handbook” (ALA Editions 2010). She also served on the editorial boards of Reference & User Services Quarterly, Reference Books Bulletin and Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Her dissertation focuses on teen reading in print, e-book and audiobook formats.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Women's History Month!
In celebration of National Woman’s History Month, Palm Harbor Library will once again be holding its annual public recognition of women who have made significant contributions to improve the quality of life in the Palm Harbor community.
This is the seventh year where we have an opportunity to thank four women for their efforts in making the Palm Harbor a better place to live and grow. They need not be from Palm Harbor. It is their achievements that are important.
Women who were previously recognized include the following: Janice Banther, Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Connie Davis, Citizen of the Year Winona Jones, Palm Harbor Library founder Jeannette Malouf, Assistant Library Director Lois Eannel, Commissioner Susan Latvala, community leader Irene Rausch, Middle School teacher Susan Terry, library Foundation President Irene Finger, Jessica Collier, former Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Sharon Lamm, Kristy Patterson, Deputy Sheriff Kris Gilmore, Pegoty Lopez, Dana Brandon, community activist Sharon Pikulinski, former Downtown Palm Harbor Main Street President Leslie Klein, Susan Senger, Palm Harbor Rotary President Mona Johnson, former County Commissioner Sallie Parks and community activist Dawn LaCross. Wow!
We have now selected our new honorees and their photographs and brief biographies are on display at the library throughout the month of March. The celebration will be held on Monday evening, March 29 at 6 PM.
Let’s recognize and applaud these women who have made Palm Harbor a place you can really call “home”.
This is the seventh year where we have an opportunity to thank four women for their efforts in making the Palm Harbor a better place to live and grow. They need not be from Palm Harbor. It is their achievements that are important.
Women who were previously recognized include the following: Janice Banther, Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Connie Davis, Citizen of the Year Winona Jones, Palm Harbor Library founder Jeannette Malouf, Assistant Library Director Lois Eannel, Commissioner Susan Latvala, community leader Irene Rausch, Middle School teacher Susan Terry, library Foundation President Irene Finger, Jessica Collier, former Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Sharon Lamm, Kristy Patterson, Deputy Sheriff Kris Gilmore, Pegoty Lopez, Dana Brandon, community activist Sharon Pikulinski, former Downtown Palm Harbor Main Street President Leslie Klein, Susan Senger, Palm Harbor Rotary President Mona Johnson, former County Commissioner Sallie Parks and community activist Dawn LaCross. Wow!
We have now selected our new honorees and their photographs and brief biographies are on display at the library throughout the month of March. The celebration will be held on Monday evening, March 29 at 6 PM.
Let’s recognize and applaud these women who have made Palm Harbor a place you can really call “home”.
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