ACRL New England Chapter News Online

ISSN 1527-0106

Winter 2005, Number 104

In This Issue (Home):

President's Letter

ALA Midwinter Dessert Social

Librarian of the Year Nominations

Annual Program Announcement

Continuing Education Report

Legislative Report

Women's Studies Spring Program

Interest Group Reports:
Access Services (ASIG)
Women's Studies

Calendar Listings

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the ACRL/NEC Women's Studies Interest Group Spring Program on April 22nd, 2005.

We are pleased to announce that Thomas J. Michalak, Director of the Open Collections Program at the Harvard University Library is hosting the Spring WSIG program "Women Working, 1870 - 1930," an Open Collections project at Harvard University. "Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections." Interdisciplinary in focus, the collection covers both paid and unpaid work and related issues. The collection contains over 2,300 books and pamphlets, 1,000 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections.

Women Working, 1870 - 1930 is a project of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University. The Open Collections Program aims to increase the availability and use of textual and visual historical resources for teaching, learning, and research by digitizing materials and making them available through the web and Harvard Library catalogs.

The WSIG program will held at the Gutman Conference Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As a special treat, Mr. Michalak has arranged for WSIG to tour the newly re-opened and renovated Schlesinger Library after the program.

Tentative Schedule:

10: 00 A.M. Registration and Coffee
Gutman Conference Center at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education

10:30-12:00 - Program on the Working Women Project

Tentative: Tours of the renovated Schlesinger Library on the History of
Women in America (Likely to be at 12:00 P.M. and 2:00 P.M.)

Please register early, as space is limited to 125 people. E-mail
registrations to Nancy Dennis, Outreach Librarian, Salem State College.