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Welcome to FEL Friday:
Newsletters, Webinars and Tweets
Welcome to FEL Friday. Each
month we pull together information about the various components of the Florida Electronic Library
(FEL) to share with you.
Each year, March is
designated as National
Women's History Month to ensure that the history of
American women will be recognized and celebrated in schools, workplaces
and communities throughout the country. The 2014 theme is, Celebrating Women of Character,
Courage and Commitment.
The National Women's
History Project provides a list of their 2104 Women's History Month
Honorees that includes Florida's own Roxcy Bolton. Perhaps your
community could develop their own list of women of character, courage and
commitment.
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Databases:
Poetry at Your Fingertips
The Gender Studies Collection
aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our
culture, covering gender studies, family and marital issues, health
aspects and more.
The Diversity Studies Collection
explores cultural differences, contributions and influences.
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Ask a Librarian:
Research @ Your Fingertips
If your patrons are searching for resources for Women's History Month,
they'd better not pack lightly, because they're in for quite a trip!
The stream of women's achievements and contributions to society is
endless, and there are a lot of resources to commend this. Navigating
through the abundance to find just what is needed can be
exhausting.
Ask a Librarian
makes it easier. Patrons can chat live with a Florida librarian who
will help them find exactly what they need. Get help finding narrative
biographies, primary source works, and in-depth timelines of scientific
exploration and cultural experience. They'll even help locate great lesson
plans or family activity ideas. Stop packing already, and Ask a Librarian!
To learn more about how to become part of the AaL team, or how
your library can make Ask
a Librarian available to your community, contact Jessica
Riggins at rigginsj@tblc.org.
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Women in History:
Roxcy Bolton: A Force for
Equality 
Roxcy Bolton is a lifetime advocate and activist for women's rights.
She founded Florida's first battered women's shelter in 1972, and the
nation's first hospital based Rape Treatment Center in 1974. Her
extensive work includes lobbying for passage of the Equal Rights
Amendment, and convincing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) to name hurricanes after both women and men.
Florida Memory
includes an exhibit of items from the Roxcy O'Neal Bolton Papers
collection at the State Archives of Florida that highlights just a few
of Roxcy Bolton's activities and achievements from over 50 years of
concern and activism.
Learn more about the contributions of women in Florida's
history through the Florida
Memory's Online Classroom.
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Resource Sharing:
Making Virtual Reference Titles
Easily Available
The standard 20th century histories of European philosophy do not
include women as important, original
contributors to the discipline's past. Some relegate a few to
footnotes; however, most omit women
entirely. The Encyclopedia
of Philosophy presents recent research, inspired by the
influence of feminist theory, and by a renewed interest in the
historiography of philosophy. Numerous women
have been uncovered as important contributors to philosophy
over the centuries.
The Encyclopedia of
Philosophy is just one of many Gale Virtual Reference
Library (GVRL) titles available for your patrons. You can also
find:
- American
Revolution Reference Library.
- Bowling,
Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th Century America.
- Encyclopedia
of Religion.
- History
in Dispute.
- St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
- Supreme
Court Drama: Cases That Changed America.
- World
War I Reference Library.
- World
War II Reference Library.
Improve access to these GVRL titles by adding MARC records
to your online catalog. This can also ease the workload of library
staff, and reduce costs by eliminating unnecessary interlibrary loan
requests for the millions of available full text articles.
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Contact Melissa Hooke at: melissa.hooke@dos.myflorida.com to
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