The 350-year span of A Jury of Her Peers takes in more than 250 writers and covers sweeping tides of history and social change. It’s a long book, but it doesn’t feel long at all because it is so full of information, ideas, stories, and characters. The celebrated get their due—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison—and so do the forgotten: Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Emma Lazarus, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Meridel LeSueur, Ann Petry, and a host of others.
Archive for March, 2009
Review of A Jury of Her Peers
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009WSS Needs Your Feedback!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009The WSS Blog is in it’s beta stages!
Begun only a few weeks ago, this blog is a beta project for our section. This trial run will go from now through July and at Annual in Chicago the blog will be reviewed by the Executive Committee.
What does this mean? In short, we need feedback from members of WSS and visitors to this blog to let us know what you like about the blog, what you don’t, what works, what doesn’t, what needs to be changed, and what is hitting the mark! Please comment and let us know what you think about this project.
Here are a few questions to consider:
- Does the blog duplicate the WSS presence on Facebook and MySpace?
- Do you view the blog as an information sharing space, a networking tool, a collaborative work and discussion space?
Let us know what you think — add your comment to the conversation! The blog is for the whole section, and we want to make sure that it is meeting the needs of the membership!
Collection Development Survey
Monday, March 9th, 2009Michelle M. Martínez, Assistant Professor & Reference Librarian at Sam Houston State University, is researching collection development policies and would appreciate a response to the short survey below. She is finding that the majority of academic libraries are very broad in their collection development scope, and while that’s quite useful for purchasing power, it may backfire when it comes to needing to justify a purchase to an irate or offended library-user
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2vAwAEenLWn3N5_2bLRmHi_2fw_3d_3d
March is Women’s History Month
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Celebrate women’s history this March! Let us know how your library is celebrating Women’s History Month and check out these websites for more information about how you can get involved in celebrations this month:
The National Women’s History Project
Women’s History Month at the Library of Congress
Gale Cengage Learning free resources on Women’s History Month