Results from our recent election are in! The new WCRT co-chairs are Stephanie Bayless and Leslie Fields.
Congratulations Stephanie and Leslie! Thank you to all the candidates
who ran in the election.
In addition, the WCRT proposed by-laws passed unanimously by those members who voted in the election!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Register now for a Women's Archives Symposium - Tuesday, August 13, 2013 (during the SAA Annual Conference)
Symposium Overview: Perspectives on Women's Archives: A Reader (ed. Tanya Zanish-Belcher with Anke Voss) will be hot off the press when SAA convenes in August. Join us to celebrate its publication and ponder some of the issues it raises in a one-day symposium just the day before the opening of the conference. Panelists will offer remarks to generate discussion on several topics: the continuing relevance of separate women's archives, the impact of the digital world on record creation and use, and the role of the citizen archivist. We look forward to a lively conversation among archivists, scholars, and the Reader's authors about the future of women's archives.For more information and to register visit the symposium website:
http://tulane.edu/newcomb/womens-archives-womens-collections-what-does-the-future-hold.cfm
Sunday, March 24, 2013
We are pleased to announce that the WCRT Bylaws Committee has completed our first draft. We are asking for member feedback on this draft before we send it in to the council for approval. Go here to read the draft and please comment on the blog, below this post or email alexandra.krensky@gmail.com or enovara@umd.edu. We would like your comments by April 15, 2013.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Leaders of Social Reform in 18th,
19th, and 20th Century America
Grant From the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission
 | ||
| Elizabeth Blackwell, ca. 1850-1860.* |
“We are
grateful to receive this grant from the NHPRC to digitize our archival collections
of the Blackwell Family, who were leaders of historical importance in the social
reform movements of the 18th to 20th century. This digitization project helps
bring the library’s holdings on the lives and work of women in America to
researchers and the public in new online formats,” said Marilyn Dunn, executive
director of the Schlesinger Library and librarian of the Radcliffe Institute.
The
grant enables the Schlesinger Library to digitize 189,074 pages of the Blackwell
Family collection, featuring correspondence, diaries, financial records,
photographs, drawings, writings, and other papers of four generations of the US
branch of the family, assembled by George Washington Blackwell and his
descendants.
The
collection records travel, professional work, and civic and reform activities of
the members of the close-knit family. Among the most well-known members are Elizabeth
(1821–1910), the first woman to earn a medical degree, and her sister Emily
(1826–1910), also among the first woman doctors. Both women fought for public
health reform and equal education and medical training for women. Their brother
Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909), his wife, Lucy Stone (1818–1893), and their
daughter Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) are known for their leadership roles
in the abolition, women’s suffrage, and prohibition movements. Their
sister-in-law Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), wife of Samuel Charles
Blackwell (1823–1901), was the first woman ordained as a minister in the United
States and an active speaker on behalf of abolition, women’s rights, and
prohibition.
The
Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute will invest an additional
$150,000 to meet the cost of the project, “Those Extraordinary Blackwells:
Leaders of Social Reform in 19th and 20th Century America.” The scheduled
completion of the digitization project is June 2015.
About the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study
The
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is dedicated to
creating and sharing transformative ideas across the arts, humanities,
sciences, and social sciences. The Fellowship Program annually supports the
work of 50 leading artists and scholars. Academic Ventures fosters
collaborative research projects and sponsors lectures and conferences that engage
scholars with the public. The Schlesinger Library documents the lives of
American women of the past and present for the future, furthering the
Institute’s commitment to women, gender, and society. Learn more about the
people and programs of the Radcliffe Institute at www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
* Image: Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Contact:
* Image: Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Contact:
Karla
Strobel
617-495-8608
karla_strobel@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Our two volunteers have been selected, and we now have a full bylaws committee. In addition to our existing leadership, our new committee members are Kate Colligan (kate.colligan@gmail.com) and Bethany Anderson (bgandrsn@gmail.com). The committee will be evaluating our next steps in the coming weeks and will be soliciting input for by-laws from WCRT members, so watch the listserv and blog for that!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
I recently
co-edited the anthology Make Your Own
History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century (Litwin
Books, 2012), with Lyz Bly, an instructor of gender studies and history at Case
Western Reserve and Cleveland State Universities, who earned her doctorate in
American History from Case Western Reserve University in 2010.
I started
thinking about this book three years ago in 2009 when Emily Drabinski, the
editor for the Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information
Studies, emailed me out of the blue and asked if I would be interested in
writing a book about zines after being referred to me by Jenna Freedman, the zine
librarian at Barnard. My initial reaction was no, thanks, but then I realized
this was a great opportunity to further explore some questions I had been
asking about how to document the modern feminist movement beyond zines. I also
knew that I wanted to explore these ideas from a variety of perspectives, and
to produce a volume that was accessible to a variety of audiences—not just
librarians, archivists and academics. To this end, I invited Lyz Bly, who I
knew through her time at the Sallie Bingham Center as a Mary Lily Travel Grant
recipient when she was researching the zine collections for her dissertation Generation X and the Invention of the Third
Feminist Wave.
Once we
started exploring this topic, we realized it was hard to address without
including pieces about queer activism and second wave feminism due to the
intersectionality and fluid nature of feminism. I hope this book will highlight
the Bingham Center’s leadership in documenting the modern feminist movement,
but also share the other work being done at other institutions and encourage
other archivists and activists to participate in this process since these
movements are far too big for just a handful of archives to document.
Make Your
Own History addresses the practical and theoretical challenges and advantages
of researching, documenting, and archiving recent and contemporary activists in
the feminist and queer movements. Chapter topics include zines, documenting the
LGBT community, the future of collecting electronic and online records, and how
the women of the Second Wave continue to contribute to the feminist movement.
Janice
Radway, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern
University and professor emerita of Literature and History at Duke University, recommends
that this collection “should be read by librarians, archivists, and book historians everywhere
who are thinking critically about how best to preserve and study the record of
lives lived outside and beyond the limits of the conventional.”
Read more
about this book in an interview with Michele Burger on her blog “The Practice
of Creativity”: http://micheleberger.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/archives-as-activism-documenting-feminist-and-queer-activism-interview-with-author-kelly-wooten/
Post
submitted by Kelly Wooten, Research Services and Collection Development
Librarian for the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke
University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and
Librarian for Sexuality Studies for Perkins Library.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
WCRT is looking for two volunteers to join the co-chairs and vice
co-chairs on a committee to develop by-laws for the roundtable. This
year, SAA has required all roundtables to have their own by-laws.
This is a great opportunity to become more involved in the roundtable
and have a say in our leadership! Our final draft of the by-laws will
be issued by next year's annual meeting, so the drafting process will
be going on over the course of this year. If you're interested or
have any questions, please email Elizabeth Novara (enovara@umd.edu) or
Alex Krensky (alexandra.krensky@gmail.com).
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