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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:49:00 CDT
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- From: SPACE COWBOY <S_NATALE@TWU.BITNET>
- Subject: Woman's Collection/Newsletter
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- The Texas Woman's University Library has revived its newsletter DATA ENTRIES
- and is making it available in electronic form through free subscription over
- the Internet.
-
- DATA ENTRIES will cover events at the Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library in
- Denton, Texas, as well as developments in public services and the Woman's
- Collection (see below for more information about TWU's several special
- collections.)
-
- To subscribe to the quarterly newsletter, simply send a note requesting a
- subscription to one of the following addresses:
-
- s_natale@twu (BITNet)
- or
- s_natale@twu.edu (Internet)
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- TWU Woman's Collection
-
- Perhaps it's not surprising that Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas,
- has a "woman's" collection in the library, but the fact that this collection
- is among the finest in the nation may be a surprise to many. Begun in 1932 at
- the behest of one of the university's presidents, biographies of significant
- women were collected to serve as role models for the students at Texas State
- College for Women, later to be called Texas Woman's University.
-
- Today, the Woman's Collection, housed at the Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library on
- the TWU campus, contains more than 42,000 books and periodicals, 2500 feet of
- manuscript and archival records, and approximately 20,000 photographs. In
- addition, the library acquires many of the large microfilm editions of
- manuscripts and printed collections published by other libraries and boasts a
- woman's clothing and textile collection.
-
- The historical manuscripts include the personal papers of Hermine Tobolowsky,
- the "Mother of the Texas Equal Legal Rights Amendment," Sarah Weddington (Roe
- v. Wade), and authors Claire Myers Owens, LaVerne Harrel Clark, and Edith
- Deen. In addition, the library has collected the records of significant
- women's organizations such as the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, The Texas
- Federation of Business and Professional Women, the American Association of
- University Women (Texas), and the Texas state archives of Delta Kappa Gamma.
- In addition, to add to its growing collection on women in the military, TWU
- acquired the records of the WASP, Inc., the veterans organization for the
- Women's Airforce Service Pilots who flew during World War II.
-
- The Cookbook and Menu Collection has become one of the major collections in the
- world since the acquisition of the Julie Benell Cookbook Collection and the
- greater portion of the Cookery and Gastronomy Library of Mrs. Thomas M. Scruggs
- and Margaret Cook. The entire collection numbers approximately 12,000
- volumes.
-
- TWU, the largest university primarly for women in the U.S, has approximately
- 10,000 students and is located 35 miles north of the Dallas-Fort Worth
- metroplex. The Library houses more than three-quarters of a million items.
- For questions about the Woman's Collection, contact Dawn Letson
- 817-898-3754 or at s_letson@twu.edu (Internet).
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- To access the Texas Woman's University Library Collections via Internet:
-
- 1. TELNET to TWU.EDU
-
- 2. At the USERNAME: prompt enter IRIS
-
- 3. At the login: prompt press ENTER
-
- 4. At the ONLINE CATALOG Menu enter 1
-
- To exit enter E from the Main Menu, then enter 3
-
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- Please excuse the cross-postings of this message.
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