Joan Campbell co-chaired the interest group for a second year with Laura Walters, who was serving her first year. Joan reached the end of her 2-year term in May of 1996. She will be replaced by Chris Smith of BU. Joan provided two years of outstanding service and her leadership will be missed.

 

Below is a list and brief description of the programs held July 1995-June 1996.

 

Smith College, July 13, 1995.

Three librarians from the Special Collections of Smith College, Margery Sly, College Archivist and Coordinator of Special Collections, Sherill Redmon, Head of the Sophia Smith Collection, and Karen Kukil, Acting Curator of Rare Books, spoke and gave tours of their areas. The Sophia Smith Collection is an internationally recognized repository for primary sources in women's history, and holds the papers of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and the YWCA, among many other collections focused on women's rights, suffrage, peace, and education. The College Archives houses a rich collection of materials documenting the history of Smith College from plans to endow a college for women in the 1860s to the present. The Mortimer Rare Book Room began with a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth- century books and has grown to over 25,000 volumes covering the history of printing from the 15th-20th century. Author collections include George Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Mary Shelley, Eudora Welty, and Virginia Woolf. After the meeting WSIG members gathered for lunch at the Green Street Cafe.

 

Women's Studies Research: Where Do Librarians Fit In?, November 20, 1995.

This panel discussion was held at Tufts University and featured Virginia Drachman, professor of history, and Kathleen Weller, professor of education. They spoke about their research, how they use libraries and archives, and how they think they and their students could make better use of library resources and librarians.

 

UN Fourth World Conference on Women, January 12, 1996.

Wendy Thomas, Public Services Librarian at the Schlesinger Library, presented a slide show on the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Wendy attended as a NGO rep. Wendy was a member of a panel entitled "The Document and its Passage." She spoke of the information needs of women world-wide and she displayed conference programs, brochures, pamphlets, and other literature from a variety of countries.

 

Women's Review of Books, May 3, 1996.

Linda Gardiner, editor of The Women's Review of Books, will discuss the nuts and bolts of running the publication, including how books are selected for review, how reviewers are selected, and how the Review began.

 

 

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