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Good afternoon, This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for duplicate postings. 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archive: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml LM_NET Select/EL-Announce: http://www.cuenet.com/archive/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ven.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-