The Women's Studies Interest Group held two programs this past year.
"Sharing Our Knowledge," Wellesley College, November 22, 1996.
Our fall program, entitled "Sharing Our Knowledge," took place at the Wellesley College Library on November 22, 1996. Margaret Ericson (Tufts) held a "reference refresher" on women and gender in music bibliography, including Web sites. Jamie Penney (Boston Women's Health Book Collective) demonstrated the new CD-ROM, Contemporary Women's Issues, a database with more than 10,000 full-text records on women worldwide. The Women's Resources International CD-ROM, with more than 116,000 women's studies citations, was demonstrated by Joan Campbell (Wellesley). Karl Fattig and Leanne Pander (Bowdoin College) demonstrated a 6500-article demo CD-ROM of Women R, a full-text women's studies database. Marlene Manoff (MIT) gave a demonstration of the ACRL/Women's Studies Section Web page, which was still under construction.
Maine Women Writers Project, Westbrook College, Portland, Maine, June 6, 1997.
In an effort to better serve our northern New England members, the Women's Studies Interest Group arranged to hold our spring meeting in Portland, Maine on June 6, 1997. This is the first time the Interest Group has not met in the Boston-Worcester-Amherst area. The program took place at the Abplanalp Library, Westbrook College Campus of the University of New England. Special Collections Librarian Nancy Noble gave us a tour of the Maine Women Writers Collection, a special collection containing more than 4,000 volumes and other materials on Maine women writers. Following the tour, we listened to a presentation by University of Maine instructor Jennifer Pixley, who explained how she conducted her research on Maine writer Ruth Moore, a popular mid-twentieth century novelist whose published works and personal papers are in the Maine Women Writers Collection.
The Women's Studies Interest Group would like to hold future meetings in other parts of New England. The co-chairs welcome suggestions from ACRL/NEC Board members and their colleagues on women's studies collections that we might visit in the future.