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Speaker Wayne Wiegand
Date Apr 24, 2012
Time 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  
Location 126 Library and Information Science Building
Sponsor Graduate School of Library and Information Science
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Join Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University, for a special presentation of Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition (University of Massachusetts Press, January 2012), a book he co-authored with Sarah Wadsworth, associate professor of English at Marquette University. The Library of the Woman's Building at the Columbian Exposition featured over 8,000 books written by women. While American women wrote the majority of the books, women from other countries also were represented at this World's Fair, and their books spanned women's writings from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. One of the major benefits of the authors' research is that the titles of these books have once again been gathered. Using the power of the Internet, the authors are placing the information in an online database so that it can be accessed by researchers, students, and those interested in women's history throughout the world.