WOMEN'S PLACE IS ON THE 'NET: CREATING AND ENRICHING THE RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN'S HISTORY

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Introduction: Three Methods of Finding Resources:

1. USING WEB CATALOGING

OCLC/WORLDCAT/FIRST SEARCH EXAMPLES

2. USING SEARCH ENGINE SEARCHING

SEARCH EXAMPLE

3. USING METASITES

• A Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/WomenGender/links.html

• Women's History Sites Section of WSSLINKS http://libraryweb.utep.edu/acrlwss/history.html

• American Women's History: A Research Guide http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

• Celebration of Women Writers http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

• H-Women http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~women/

• Women's History Resources http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/hist.htm

Examples of Resources Pointed to from Megasites:

American Memory Historical Collections, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
See in particular the Woman Suffrage, Books and Pamphlets,1848-1921 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
and its companion pictoral exhibit Woman Suffrage, Photographs and Prints, 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Early Canada Online http://www.canadiana.org/

Making of America:

University of Michigan portion, http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Cornell University portion, http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archival Information Locator (NAIL) http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html

Ad*Access http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/dynaweb/adaccess/@Generic__CollectionView

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

Five College Archives Digital Access Project http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/

Marriage, Women and the Law: A Digital Collection http://www.rlg.org/demo/scarlet.html

Suffragists Oral History Project http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/oh/suffragists/

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 http://womhist.binghamton.edu/index.html

Women in Journalism http://npc.press.org/wpforal/ohhome.htm

Emma Goldman Papers Project site http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/

Jewish Women's Archive http://www.jwa.org/

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

Hawaii Women's Heritage Project http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/hwhp/

Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage http://www.nmwh.org/

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Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women's Studies Librarian

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