Women's Studies Interest Group (WSIG)
Annual Report

Submitted by WSIG Co-chairs: Evelyn Cherpak  &  Susan Raidy-Klein

WSIG presented two programs in 2006-2007 emphasizing the convergence of technology and scholarly resources in women’s studies. 

The first program, held December 1 at the John Hay Library, Brown University in Providence, RI featured a presentation by the Women’s Writers Project (WWP), a pioneer in building an electronic text base for pre-Victorian women’s writings, that has expanded the scope of its electronic publication program in the past two decades, confronting the challenges of encoding systems, definitions, data standards, mark-up language and TEI.  The all-day program was attended by 25 women.

The Spring program was held on May 14, 2007 at the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Norton MA.  Zephorene Stickney, Wheaton College Archivist and Curator of Special Collections and Dr. Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College Professor of History discussed the process of working with technology to select, transcribe and encode text of the journals of Mariah E. Wood and Mrs. Wheaton.  Working with technology to assist students in approaching historical documents was a key element in the project: as a result,  students were full participants in the transcription process, learning about the nature and purpose of diary-keeping, and the value of diaries for providing historical context for social and economic issues. Seventeen librarians and archivists attended.

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