THE WORLD WIDE WEB: A PRIMARY RESOURCE FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY
NWSA June 15, 2000
Phyllis Holman Weisbard
University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian
Introduction: Three Methods of Finding Resources:
1. USING WEB CATALOGING
2. USING SEARCH ENGINE SEARCHING
3. USING METASITES
Examples of Resources Pointed to from Megasites:
GENERAL DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
American Memory Historical Collections, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.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
A SAMPLING OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS SPECIFICALLY ON WOMEN
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 in Journalism http://npc.press.org/wpforal/ohhome.htm
A SAMPLING OF ONLINE EXHIBITS IN WOMEN'S HISTORY
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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