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

 

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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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