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ACRL New England Chapter
Women's Studies Interest Group

The Women's Studies Interest Group (WSIG) was founded by Wendy Thomas (Schlesinger
Library, Radcliffe College) and Alexa Mayo (Holy Cross College) in 1992 for the purpose of
providing librarians interested in women's studies with an opportunity to meet, share information,
and form professional networks. Our interests include collection building, instruction, reference,
and resource sharing in women's studies. The WSIG sponsors field trips to women's studies
collections throughout New England, as well as guest lectures by visiting scholars.


 Join the Belles of ACRL’s Women’s Studies 
For A Day in Amherst with Emily Dickinson
 

The Women’s Studies Interest Group of ACRL New England invites you to a Summer’s day exploration of library and museum collections dedicated to Emily Dickinson on Friday, June 20, 2008. 

The event will begin with a 10:00 a.m. visit to the Amherst College Library Special Collections and Archives Division where archivist Margaret Dakin will give a presentation on the Emily Dickinson papers. Parking is available in the Amherst College Alumni lot at the corner of College and Spring Street. See www.amherst.edu/library/archives/index.html

Orientation to the life and works of Emily Dickinson will continue at 11:30am at the Emily Dickinson Museum, 280 Main Street for a poet’s tour of the Dickinson family residence.  Admission is $5.00 for the tour.  See below to send your payment in advance. See www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org

Curator Tevis Kimball will give a presentation on the Dickinson collection and other related women’s collections at the Jones Library, 43 Amity Street at 1:30 p.m.  See www.joneslibrary.org

All venues are within walking distance of the Robert Frost Library and are no more than 10 minutes away from each other.

Lunch, preceding the Jones Library visit, is on your own in any of a number of fine restaurants in Amherst.  See www.amherstarea.com/amherst/index.cfm for a listing. There is also ample parking in town. See www.amherstma.gov/departments/Parking/parking_map.pdf

Please submit a check for $5.00 per person (for the museum tour) to Evelyn Cherpak by June 9 and confirm your plan to attend. Contact information for Evelyn:

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Tel:  (401) 841-2435

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Programs:

The Women Writers Project: Envisioning, Encoding, and Publishing Early Texts On-Line,
Brown University, December 1, 2006

Naval War College and Newport Historical Society, Newport, RI, May 3, 2006

Summer Retreat, Colby College and the Margaret Chase Smith Library, Maine,
July 21-22, 2005

Women Working, 1870 - 1930, Harvard University, on April 22, 2005

American Antiquarian Society Library, Worcester, on October 15, 2004.

Shaker Library, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine, on
May 9, 2003.

Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston, on February 21, 2003.

Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England, Portland, Maine, on May 20, 2002.

Women in Business Project, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, on September 28, 2001.

Brown University Women Writers Project, on March 2, 2001.

 
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Resources for Women's Studies in New England:

Women's Studies Resources and Women's Studies Programs in New England

 

Evelyn M. Cherpak, Co-Chair
Head, Naval Historical Collection
Naval War College
Newport, RI 02841-1207
Phone: (401) 841-2435
Email

Susan Raidy-Klein, Co-Chair
Associate Director for Collection Services
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02113
(617) 521-2747
Email

 

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