Womans Day magazine is promoting libraries. Does it promote the contemporary view of women students in academic settings? Does it depict women students meeting the challenges of campus life, commuting and completing course work? Present your views on how the library has helped you! The New Womans Day initiative asks readers to share stories on how the library has changed their life. Womans Day magazine wants to learn how the library has changed lives.
The magazine announced the editorial initiative in its March 7 issue, which reached subscribers last week. In the issue, the magazine declares that libraries are magical places and asks readers to submit their stories in 700 words or less. Stories can be sent to womansday@ala.org from now until May 10, 2006, when the promotion closes. Four of the submissions will be featured in an upcoming issue of Womans Day.
The ALA partnership with Womans Day began in 2002 with a series of workshops for aspiring writers led by writers from the magazine. It has developed into a multi-program partnership that has resulted in approximately $4 million in library-related editorial coverage in five issues of the magazine, donated ad space and an online book club featuring ALA members.
Currently, the Womans Day online book club features recommendations for young adults. The book club is available by visiting www.womansday.com/community .
Womans Day is a Founding Partner of The Campaign for Americas Libraries, the ALAs multi-year public awareness and advocacy campaign to promote the value of libraries and librarians in the 21st century.
Library Database News
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Full-text for over 60 newspapers from across the United States.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Full-text for more than 300 newspapers in Spanish or English.
- New Database, 12/03/2009Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The complete text of 33 volumes of the original DNB plus supplements.
- New Databases, 11/6/2009Contemporary World Music
A blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings.
Global Health
A public health database produced by CABI Publishing.
North American Indian Drama
Plays by members of the indigenous nations of North America plus the text of the Native Playwrights' Newsletter.
Opera in Video
Some of the most studied operas for music history, opera literature, and performance classes.
Black Drama, 2nd edition
Expanded from the first edition.
- New Database, 9/16/2009National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Indexing and summaries for criminal-justice related material in books, reports, and journals.
- New Databases, 9/10/2009Gender Watch
Full-text database on the women's movement, men's studies, and lesbian, gay and transgender studies.
Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets
from JSTOR
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, & Spanish. - New Database, 8/21/2009
- New Databases, 6/18/2009Jazz Music Library
Great artists from the past and the present - another excellent music database from Alexander Street Press. Also cross-searchable as part of the Music Online database. Listen online today!
- New Databases, 5/28/2009African American Music Reference
Classical Music Reference Library
Includes the authoritative reference works, Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The online edition of the 10-volume print set devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
Music Online
Cross-Search ALL library music databases from Alexander Street Press - Try it!!
- New Database, 3/17/2009
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