COSWL Cause

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Kate McDowell is the 2010 winner of the Donald G. Davis Article Award. This award is given every second year to recognize the best article written in English in the field of United States and Canadian library history, including the history of libraries, librarianship and book culture in the previous two calendar years. McDowell, assistant professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, won the award for her article “Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship,” published in The Library Quarterly v. 79, no. 3 (2009): 279-300. In this study of a survey-based research model developed and employed by women librarians in the late 19th century, McDowell demonstrates that they changed the professional discourse of American librarianship.

Two former chairs of the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship: Katharine J. Phenix, Adult Services Librarian at the Rangeview Public Library in Adams County, CO in green [COSWL Chair, 1984-1985]; Kathleen de la Peña McCook, professor, University of South Florida, Tampa in pink [COSWL Chair 1980-1982] at the 2010 ALA Conference Program on the National Women's History Museum. Washington. D.C.

The great news from the Feminist Task Force is that "Women in Libraries" is back and that the archive of the newsletter is now fully available.

Thank you very much Marie Jones, Sherre Harrington and your helpers for making this happen!

Now all of YOU can help keep WiL going by contributing on the wiki: http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Women+in+Libraries .

And it really is fun to read through some of the past issues now all found on our website: http://libr.org/ftf/WIL/wil.html.

It is so great to be headed for an ALA Conference with this news.