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Good afternoon,

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Direct any questions to <http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory2.html>.

The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the latest addition to its
American Memory Web site, titled "American Women: A Gateway to Library of
Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the
United States," available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/.

Designed as a first stop for Library of Congress researchers working in the
field of American women's history, American Women provides easy entree to
an online version of the Library's recently published women's history
resource guide.  It also contains links to existing and newly created Web
documents that offer:

* practical advice on preparing for a research trip to the Library of Congress
* tips on how to search the Library's catalogs and finding aids
specifically for women's history resources
* an overview of the Library's American Memory collections and how to find
materials relating to women within and across these digital offerings
* helpful orientations to women's history sources in the Library's online
exhibitions and its audiovisual Web broadcasts of lectures, readings, and
symposia sponsored by the institution.

At the core of the new site is the slightly expanded and now fully
searchable version of "American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the
Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States," a 2001 print
publication that has been redesigned for online use, with added
illustrations and links to digitized material located throughout the
Library of Congress Web site, including some material newly digitized
especially for American Women.  In restructuring the 456-page book as an
online resource, a team of Library of Congress subject and format
specialists worked with Library Web design and programming experts to
preserve the guide's original organization by custodial division or
research center while simultaneously enhancing, through various types of
hyperlinks and full-text searching, the reader's ability to move across the
Library's multiformat and interdisciplinary holdings.

Within each division or collecting area, the Web site's authors have provided:

* practical search tips (many of which are applicable to research in other
libraries)
* detailed collection summaries
* links to fuller online catalog record descriptions
* links to digitized material from the Library's book, newspaper,
periodical, law, rare book, manuscript, print, photograph, map, music,
recorded sound, moving image, American folklife, and foreign-language
collections.

The guide portion of the Web site also includes explanations of how to use
the Library's many catalogs and finding aids for locating materials within
specific divisions, thus supplementing the overview documents provided on
the American Women home page.  An introductory topical essay by historian
Susan Ware gives an historiographical overview of research trends within
the field of American women's history.

Simultaneously a guide, an online magnet for digitized women's history
materials drawn from a plethora of Library sources, and a gateway, American
Women is an innovative addition to American Memory.  The site will continue
to evolve and grow as new subject approaches to women are explored,
additional items and collections on women are identified and digitized, and
new programs on women's themes are videotaped for public broadcasting over
the Internet.


Danna C. Bell-Russel
Digital Reference Specialist
Library of Congress

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