Posts on March 2015

New April Books for Recreational Reading Collection!

The AAEL Recreational Reading Collection has new books for April, with titles in suspense, science and technology, and fiction. Come check them out and let us know what you think!

Submit Feedback to the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is accepting feedback on its Recommended Format Specifications for its annual update. The deadline to submit feedback is tomorrow, March 31st.

Eleanor Burke Leacock, Feminist Anthropologist

"Utterly stunned, I walked down Broadway with a frie[n]d, repeating over and over to him, “Do you realize there are some things I will not be able to do simply because I am a woman? Do you realize…” I could not stop recounting the incident." In these words, anthropologist Eleanor Leacock recalls the moment in 1943 when she was denied an Assistantship solely because of her gender and she realized the full extent of discrimination that she would face as a female academic.

Diverse City - National Women's History Month

American Culinary History materials are full of representations of women and femininity These images are occasionally realistic, often absolute fantasy, and and sometimes somewhere in between.

Intrepid High School Student's Science Experiment Brings Him to Galileo Manuscript

We are always delighted to support learning and engagement with our materials, especially as they inspire new scholarship and research. Read this guest blog post from local high school student, Dale (Trip) Apley III, who visited our library to analyze the Galileo Manuscript for a scientific experiment he recently conducted.