The new digital archive, “Women and Social Movements International-- 1840 to Present,” will be available for library subscription from Alexander Street Press in December or January. The first 25,000 pages of the archive will appear at that time and the entire archive of 150,000 pages will be online in late 2011. Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin are co-editing the resource with support from an international editorial advisory board.
At the AHA (American Historical Association) the archive will be considered as a research tool in a session, “New Research in the History of Women’s Transnational and International Social Movements.” That session will take place on Friday, Jan. 7, 9:30-11:30 in the Arlington Room of the Boston Marriot Copley Place and will have screen shots of the Beta version of the archive. Participants will include Francisca de Haan of Central European University, Tiffany Ruby Patterson of Vanderbilt University, Megan Threlkeld of Denison University, Barbara Reeves Ellington of Siena College and Kitty Sklar.
There will also be a luncheon on Friday, Jan. 7 at 12:15 in the Vineyard Room of the Boston Marriot Copley Place to unveil WASM International. There we will describe the archive in a slide presentation. Please contact tdublin[at]binghamton[dot]edu to reserve a place. The luncheon is free, but seats are limited.
We hope to see you at the AHA.
Kitty Sklar & Tom Dublin
Thomas Dublin
Distinguished Professor of History
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
607-777-2854
FAX: 717-214-4415
Monday, November 15, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
The deadline for submitting proposals to the SAA Program Committee for next year's conference was Oct. 1. Now that we have had time to review the submissions, we are pleased to announce the WCRT endorsements! We are backing 2 proposals this year:
1. Activists, Nuns, and Heiresses: Breaking Stereotypes of Women's Historical Collections, chaired by Beth Myers of the Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University.
2. 75 Years of International Women's Collecting: Legacies, Successes, Obstacles, and New Directions, chaired by Danelle Moon of the Special Collections and Archives, San Jose State University.
We will update the membership on the status of these proposals as soon as we hear ourselves. Thank you to everyone for organizing such strong entries for SAA 2011.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Hello all --
Consider submitting to this call for papers for the next ALMS (Archives, Libraries, Museums, Special Collections) Conference in 2011.
Please also pass along this email to anyone you know who may be interested.
Thank you!
Heidi Marshall & Franklin Robinson
LAGAR co-chairs
________________________________
I am the Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication at the UCLA Library and I wanted to share with you the Call for Proposals and Announcement for the 2011 ALMS Conference which will be hosted by the June L Mazer Lesbian Archive in Los Angeles. The UCLA Library, Center for the Study of Women and are co-hosting. The conference will be held on May 13-15, 2011 in Los Angeles. The afternoon of May 13 will be held at UCLA.
We would appreciate any help you can provide to forward the Call for Papers and announcement of the conference to your members and anyone else you think might be interested. You may have heard that UCLA as a relationship with the Mazer Archive and we are thrilled to support this conference and collecting initiative. For information on the Mazer collections at UCLA see http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/mazer/ and http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/mazer-partnership-112038.aspx.
Thanks in advance for your help getting the word out. Any questions please let me know.
Best regards,
Friday, October 08, 2010
The new cycle of Mary Lily Travel Grants for women's history research at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture has now been posted. The Sallie Bingham Center provides travel grants of up to $1000 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the women's history collections held at Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Any faculty member, graduate or undergraduate student, or independent scholar with a research project requiring the use of materials held by the Sallie Bingham Center is eligible to apply. All applicants must reside outside of a 100-mile radius of Durham, NC.
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/grants/index.html
Monday, September 20, 2010
After a nearly twenty year period of considering this momentous decision, Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina and renowned activist in the LGBTQ community, has selected the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, part of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, to be the repository for her papers. Bingham Center and literary curatorial staff collaborated on the initial acquisition of nearly 60 boxes of Allison's papers, including drafts of her writings, extensive correspondence and research files, personal journals documenting her life and creative process, and more. Read the whole story on the Special Collections blog: http://dukelibrariesrbmscl.blogspot.com/2010/09/dorothy-allison-papers-arrive-at-duke.html
Another blog post about Allison: http://dukelibrariesrbmscl.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-rbmscl-reading-dorothy-allison.html
Finding aid: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/allisondorothy/inv/
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Below are the minutes from our Roundtable Meeting at SAA in Washington, DC.
Women’s Collections Roundtable Annual Meeting
August 11, 2010, Washington, DC
Meeting Minutes
Co-chairs: Danelle Moon and Kelly Wooten
Wonderful presentations by:
- Allida Black, Research Professor of History and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, will speak about her work as the project director of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
- Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president, Alexander Street Press, will highlight the press's women's history databases
WCRT website/Blog:
Our updated website is moving over to the drupal format
Discussion of blog found at:
We encourage anyone with updates, announcements, new digital collections, anything related to women's collections to send us their information to share on the blog.
WCRT Membership:
Discussion of increased participation was on the agenda. Due to the number of members (377) and high participation at this mtg it was decided we didn't need to discuss this at this time.
Reminder that members need to opt in to the roundtable listserve
News from the Archives for Women and Social Movements database/journal
Please send any updates/announcements to Tanya Belcher-Zanish at tzanish [at] iastate [dot] edu
Women’s archives reader
draft articles coming in now, moving forward
Panels/speaker ideas for Chicago 2011 mtg:
MPLP primarily with regard to women’s collections
· Membership lists in women’s organizations
Outreach using social media to nontraditional women’s groups/activists as researchers
· Actively communicating with other groups
Uncovering hidden collection
Combining outreach with budget constraints
Continuing to serve women’s collections and user populations
Blasting stereotypes of women through women’s collections
· how you go about doing this and promoting the materials
· Promoting women’s influence on pop culture
· Girls band from 80s
· Zines as archival collections
Catholic women, nuns, getting materials out to the public
Designing programming.
- Designed for younger groups
Jane Addams, Chicago Hull House as potential ideas for Roundtable program
- Outreach, organization for children
- Social services, health issues
- Pursue this for either a topic or our roundtable mtg
- Or arts/crafts period from mid-western schools
Elections:
Next year we will move to online elections as other sections/roundtables did this year.
Meghan Lyon and Cassie Schmitt, co-vice chairs are the next years co-chairs.
Elections for vice chair, nominations from the floor, voting, both approved
Welcome Kathy Hertel-Baker and Virginia Corvid as the new co-vice chairs!
Program Committee report:
Everything fits the theme!
See announcement: here
Council Report:
Donna McCrea reports on council's mtg included proposed dues increase and financial status of SAA.
Diversity Committee:
Kelly Wooten is the representative for "women" including the memberships of both the Women's Collections Roundtable and the Women's Archivists Roundtable. Kelly reports as posted on blog: SAA's Diversity Committee Report
Attendance
| Jonathan Ponder, JSTOR | Alison Gaim, NARA |
| Erin Townsend, NARA | Virginia Corvid, WHS/UW-Madison |
| Susan Woodland, Hadassah Archives | Lora Davis, University of Delaware |
| Rebecca Johsnon Melvin, University of Delaware | Taronda Spencer, Spelman College |
| Andrea Sheehan, QVC, Inc. | Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Iowa State University |
| Kathy Hertel-Baker, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth | Colleen Mahoney, Simmons |
| Lori Satter, Simmons | Janice E. Ruth, Library of Congress Manuscript Division |
| Lisa Mangiatico, Soroptimist International of the Americas | Brenda Correia, |
| Lucinda Manminz | Mary Samouelian, Duke University |
| Kim Sims, Duke University | Sherrie Bowser, Virginia Tech |
| Jessica Sedgwick, Harvard Medical School | Cat Holbrook, Schlesinger Library |
| Johanna Carll, Schlesinger Library | Elizabeth Norarra, University of Maryland |
| Doris Malkmus, Penn State | Fernanda Peucne, Rutgers |
| Meghan Lyon, Duke University | Cassie Schmitt, University of Oregon |
| Kelly Wooten, Duke University | |
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Happy Day After Labor Day All!
This is a reminder that proposals for SAA are due October 1. A few great ideas have already been thrown out. See the blog post: Session Ideas for Archives 360: Chicago 2011
We would love to help you get your proposals together and submitted. If you are working on a proposal and need another panelist, a moderator, or have general questions, please let us know and we will do our best to find other members to fill in your panel.
You can view the call for proposals here. The program committee reminds all that every idea should fit the theme, so don't be shy!Also, the SAA Program Committee allows 2 panel endorsements for each roundtable, which are taken into account when deciding which panels get selected for the conference. Therefore, if you would like to submit your proposal to WCRT Leadership for an endorsement, please do so by Oct. 1 so that we can forward our endorsements to the Program Committee.
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