Download or read book Cultural Crusaders written by Joanne Ellen Passet and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have found just the work for me, for I love it more all the time. Thus wrote one of several hundred professionally trained women who carried the gospel of books and libraries throughout the West during the early twentieth century. Pioneers in a profession, they regarded the West as a fertile field for their cultural crusade which included establishing traveling libraries in rural areas, participating in community-building activities, and professionalizing existing public and academic libraries and as a place where they could develop as independent women. Passet uses extensive archival material to provide a picture of the women librarians' experiences. She explores their education, family relationships, degree of autonomy, and reactions to the West. Her account is enlivened throughout by the words of the women themselves. It is further enriched by brief biographies of four women exemplifying the combination of personal and professional goals that motivated many women librarians to move west.
Download or read book The Personal Librarian written by Marie Benedict and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American. The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.
Download or read book The Distance from Me to You written by Marina Gessner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild meets Endless Love in this multilayered story of love, survival, and self-discovery McKenna Berney is a lucky girl. She has a loving family and has been accepted to college for the fall. But McKenna has a different goal in mind: much to the chagrin of her parents, she defers her college acceptance to hike the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia with her best friend. And when her friend backs out, McKenna is determined to go through with the dangerous trip on her own. While on the Trail, she meets Sam. Having skipped out on an abusive dad and quit school, Sam has found a brief respite on the Trail, where everyone’s a drifter, at least temporarily. Despite lives headed in opposite directions, McKenna and Sam fall in love on an emotionally charged journey of dizzying highs and devastating lows. When their punch-drunk love leads them off the trail, McKenna has to persevere in a way she never thought possible to beat the odds or risk both their lives.
Download or read book Women Librarians in India written by Rajwant Kaur and published by Ess Ess Publication. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satisfaction among librarians both male/female has been engaging the attention of several researchers by conducting various surveys and studies. It is believed that satisfactory functioning of library and information services depends to a large extent on adequate, able, and motivated staff. This book in eight chapters is an empirical investigation using statistical methods to study the job satisfaction level of the working women librarians of India. To measure the level of job satisfaction of women library professionals working in university and college libraries it takes into account all the off-the-job and on-the-job factors that affect the job satisfaction in women workers. It finds out that for job satisfaction a woman worker has to maintain a healthy and firm balance between her work and home. For this she needs co-operation of her colleagues and seniors as well. Though financial or monetary factors do not matter much but she feels satisfied and interested in the job if she gains respect from the family and admiration from colleagues. This unique work in the LIS field in India will help the fair sex and guide the administrators to get the best from the female staff. The findings of this investigation will enable library managers to know the areas of feelings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction among women library professionals. These findings will hopefully yield a better understanding of the problems of women professionals and help the managers in future to make apt decision for the proper growth of the organisation they work for.
Download or read book Deconstructing Service in Libraries written by Veronica Arellano Douglas and published by Library Juice Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers a historical-cultural context for the ethos of service in libraries and critically examines this professional value as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, class, and (dis)ability"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek written by Kim Michele Richardson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. The perfect addition to your next book club! The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. Look for The Book Woman's Daughter, the new novel from Kim Michele Richardson, out now! Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Sourcebooks Landmark: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Download or read book Pushing the Margins Women of Color and Intersectionality in Lis written by Rose L. Chou and published by Library Juice Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Librarianship as a Profession for College bred Women written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Librarianship written by Roma M. Harris and published by Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women of International written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outlook for Women in Occupations Related to Science written by United States. Women's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment of Women in the Early Postwar Period with Background of Prewar and War Data written by Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Creative Woman written by United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year, 1975. Committee on the Arts and Humanities and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexism and Reentry written by Katherine Murphy Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how two social forces--upheaval in the economy and the emergence of the women's movement--acted together to provide a cultural context in which re-entry into the work force became a significant stage in the work process for many women and drastically altered women's work and family roles. Re-entry into the work force emerged as a new pattern of labor force participation for women in the 1950s and has continued as a significant pattern into the 1980s. It provides a detailed account and statistical analysis of the results of Dickson's 1983 survey of women librarians who tried to re-enter librarianship from 1965 to 1983. The survey sought to explore, in detail: (1) the characteristics of job seeking re-entry librarians 1965-1983; (2) reasons for seeking re-entry; (3) the process of job finding; (4) what factors contributed to employment success or failure; (5) the extent to which there were continuities and changes in the re-entry situation during the period 1965 through 1983; and (6) the extent to which the two classes selected for study, the classes of 1962 and 1972, were similar or different in re-entry efforts, success or failure. Among the most significant findings were that 16 percent of the survey population attempted re-entry, and of those only 67 percent were successful and that even those who were successful experienced many difficulties.
Download or read book The Role of Women in Librarianship 1876 1976 written by Kathleen de la Peña McCook and published by Phoenix : Oryx Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Role of Women in Librarianship 1876-1976: The Entry, Advancement and Struggle for Equalization in One Profession is a sourcebook compiled to provide a history of the first hundred years of a profession traditionally classes as a "women's profession" and to document the continuing struggle of women within that profession to achieve full opportunity and recognition"--Preface, page [ix].
Download or read book Women of Color in Librarianship written by Kathleen de la Peña McCook and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Librarian and Book World written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
