** NEWS FLASH** **Please excuse any duplication**
Dear LHRT Library History friends:
March will kick off Women's History month & we have some exciting news
to tell you about!
During March and April several kickoff and book tour presentations
will be scheduled in several locations such as Washington DC,
Milwaukee, Iowa, Chicago, Madison WI, Urbana Champaign & others
possible.
Some of you may have already heard about the new book written by
co-authors Drs. Sarah Wadsworth & Wayne Wiegand - just published in
January 2012, many of you may have already gotten a copy of the book
or read it at your library.
Here is some information:
Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman’s Building Library at the
World’s Columbian Exposition (University of Massachusetts Press
January 2012).
co-authors, Sarah Wadsworth, associate professor of English at
Marquette University and Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers
Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State
University
Published by the University of Massachusetts Press
http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/right-here-i-see-my-own-books
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Many of you also attended some presentations held this June 26-27th at
ALA Annual in New Orleans. Dr Sarah Wadsworth presented a talk about
the research & book on June 26th in New Orleans at ALA which was
sponsored by ALA COSWL Committee on the Status of Women in
Librarianship.
The following day on June 27th, both Dr Wadsworth & Dr Wiegand also
continued the conversation during ALA at the Edward G. Holley Lecture
which was sponsored by ALA LHRT. “Ghosts and Shadows: Reading Race in
the Woman’s Building Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition"
Thanks to those who attended these events in New Orleans at ALA
Annual, we had a great response to both events & we hope many more of
you will be able to attend during March & April, and read / learn more
about the book.
In addition, the March 2012 issue of American Libraries will feature
an article during Women's History month by Sue Searing of the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Libraries about the new book
and research by Drs Wadsworth & Wiegand & the support for women's
history & the National Women's History Museum campaign. Please keep
an eye out for it too.
We know that this new book has generated much interest, especially in
women's history. We hope you will come out & participate in some of
these upcoming events too which are listed below on the Spring
Itinerary updated (as of Feb 10th) and provided to us by Dr Wiegand
for all interested. The first presentation will be held at the
Library of Congress on March 2nd, we hope you can attend at some of
these events & join us, other dates & locations are listed below. We
hope you can join us !
**ALL BOOK ROYALTIES DONATED TO THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM**
So please help us spread the word & support women's history this
spring. If you are unable to join us at these events, please try to
get a copy to read and discuss / share with us and others who may be
interested too. If you buy a copy, you may also wish to donate it
after to your local library if they don't have it, so more people can
read it. These are some ideas how to get involved. Remember, all
royalties will be donated to the new museum, you can make a
difference. Read more :
http://www.nwhm.org/blog/now-I-see-my-own-books
Please note: Additional book events will be considered as scheduling
allows, and anyone who is interested in speaking further, please
contact Wayne Wiegand directly by email at: Wayne.Wiegand@cci.fsu.edu">Wayne.Wiegand@cci.fsu.edu
A PDF flyer is available and if it cannot be attached on this LHRT
email listserv, please email me directly and I can forward a copy to
you if you wish to post information about these events. my email is :
melvil4u@gmail.com">melvil4u@gmail.com and please put **LHRT FLYER** in the subject line
Thanks everyone & a special word of thanks to Dr Sarah Wadsworth & Dr
Wayne Wiegand, and all of the sponsors for these book events &
supporters of the National Women's History Museum & women's history.
We look forward to seeing many of you!
/ Best regards, Karen Weaver (from LHRT list)
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(updated as of Feb. 10th)
Spring Itinerary for Wayne A. Wiegand, coauthor with Sarah Wadsworth of
Right Here I See My Own Books:
The Woman’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition
(University of Massachusetts Press, January, 2012)
ALL BOOK ROYALTIES DONATED TO THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM
(learn more about the new museum here: http://www.nwhm.org)
March 1 7:00 p.m. One More Page Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland Street,
# 101, Arlington, VA, 22213
March 2 3:00-5:00 p.m. Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [Sponsored
by the National Women’s History Museum, the Library of Congress Center
for the Book, and the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies]
Sarah Wadsworth will be copresenting.
March 9 [TBA] Session on the book at: “’Out of the Attic and into
the Stacks:’ Feminism and LIS: The Unconference,” Hilton Milwaukee
River, Milwaukee, WI [Sponsored by Center for Information Policy
Research and the School of Information Studies, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Library
and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
Wisconsin Women Library Workers] Sarah Wadsworth will be presenting.
More info: http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/news/news/feminism-lis-09032012.cfm
March 23 9:00 a.m-3:30 p.m Strozier Library, Florida State
University, Tallahassee Florida [Sponsored by FSU Libraries and
Friends of FSU Libraries]
Colloquium on the Book
(In addition to Wiegand, others presenting on aspects of the Library
include NWHM representative Doris Weatherford, Rutgers University
Professor Marija Dalbello, and FSU Professors Meegan Kennedy, Jennifer
Koslow, Silvia Valisa, Anne Rowe)
March 28 7:00 p.m. South Ballroom, Memorial Union, Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa [sponsored by Carrie Chapman Catt Center for
Women and Politics, Women’s and Gender Studies Studies Program,
University Library, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, F. Wendell
Miller Lecture Fund, Department of History, and Committee on Lectures
(funded by the Government of the Student Body]
March 29 6:00 p.m. Room RB150 , Northwestern University School
of Law, Arthur Rubloff Building, 375 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago,
Illinois (Sponsored by the Northwestern University Libraries [which
houses the remainder of the Collection] and the American Library
Association [which participated in the construction of the original
library] Sarah Wadsworth will be copresenting.
April 2 [7:00 p.m., Mead Auditorium], Northern Michigan
University, Marquette, MI [Sponsored by AAUW, Lydia Olson Library,
Department of Sociology & Social Work , Committee on Women, and the
Peter White Library]
April 23 Noon Commons, 4th Floor, Helen C. White Hall, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI [Sponsored by the Center for the
History of Print and Digital Culture] Sarah Wadsworth will be
copresenting.
April 24 4:00 p.m., Room 126, Graduate Library School of Library and
Information Science, 501 East Daniel Street, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820
upd/2/10/2012
Thanks to all the great hosts, organizers & sponsors !!!
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Karen Weaver, MLS
Electronic Resources Statistician
Collection Management
Duquesne University, Gumberg Library
Pittsburgh PA 15282
Email: weaverk@duq.edu">weaverk@duq.edu / Gmail (preferred) melvil4u@gmail.com">melvil4u@gmail.com
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Member, ALA LHRT Library History Round Table, Membership & Outreach Committee
Member, ALA COSWL Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship
Member, ALISE Association for Library & Information Science Education,
Membership Advisory Committee