Summer 2006 Issue of FOCUS Available

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The Summer 2006 Focus newsletter highlights a pair of Women’s Studies research projects—including the Modern Girl Around the World project at the University of Washington—that have mined CRL resources. The issue also features articles on popular periodicals, a sampling of collections that support Women’s Studies, and numerous research links.

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

CRL and Linda Hall Library partnership brings history of science to researchers' fingertips

Ben Gibson, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Linda Hall Library, discusses the fruits of the library's digitization projects with CRL.

Vanderbilt University digitizes Afro-Colombian oral histories with LARRP grant

The pilot project digitized tapes of interviews conducted by anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, and physician Manuel Zapata Olivella, often dubbed the “dean of Black Hispanic writers.”