Special Libraries News
May 29, 2008
Upcoming Program on the Historic World's Fair Woman's Library
'Right Here I See My Own Books:' A Cultural History of the Woman's Library at the World's Columbia Exposition, Chicago, 1893
On the Court of Honor at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, a "Woman's Building"
stood prominently for the first time at any world's fair to recognize women as contributors
to culture. And, in a large second-floor room, the building also housed a library of 7,000
volumes written, edited, illustrated, or translated by women from all over the world
representing women's contributions to the culture of print.
On Friday, June 6, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Northwestern University Library invites you to a program on both the history of the creation of the library and an analysis of its contents, many of which ended up on the shelves of this library.
Speakers include:
Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies
and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University, and co-editor of
The Library Quarterly.
Sarah Wadsworth, Assistant Professor of English, Marquette University, who was
the guest editor of the special issue of Libraries & The Cultural Record devoted to
"The Woman's Building Library of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893."
Melodie Fox, Associate Dean of Instruction at Bryant & Stratton College in
Milwaukee, will present "The Woman's Building Library Relational Database:
An Interactive Demonstration."
The event takes place in the Library's second-floor Forum Room.
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Hosted by the Special Libraries Division of Northwestern University Library.
