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The exhibit,The Beautiful Book Exploring the Allure of Artist Books, includes the work of Mary V. Marsh.

Artist Statement

Collecting and reassembling discarded library books and cards, I think about how they have been read and transformed by time into historical remnants. Books and cards discarded from a community library imply a shared history of people reading the same books. Combining the ‘found’ phrases of the book titles to form poems, I use the cards as pages and tape or sew them into unique artist books. Images made with gouache, coffee and block prints intersect with the words to create a narrative. Re-reading history, consumer culture, and the future of reading are some of the ideas explored.

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23 Sandy Gallery is proud to honor the art and craft of the handmade book with our latest exhibition featuring artist books, The Beautiful Book, featured in the gallery June 5-27, 2009. Artist books are small edition or one of a kind book forms hand crafted by individual artists. This exquisite collection showcases the beauty in craftsmanship, materials, and imagery of the bookmaker’s art.

[From Librarian.}

Alice Munro is today, 27 May 2009, announced as the winner of the third Man Booker International Prize.

The Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000 to the winner, is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadaré in 2005 and then to Chinua Achebe in 2007.

Best known for her short stories, Munro is one of Canada's most celebrated writers. On receiving the news of her win, she said, ‘I am totally amazed and delighted.'

The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2009 is: Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician; and writer, film script writer and essayist, Andrey Kurkov. The panel made the following comment on the winner:

‘Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels. To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before.'

Her latest collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness, will be published in October 2009. Alice Munro will receive the prize of £60,000 and a trophy at the Award Ceremony on Thursday 25 June at Trinity College, Dublin.

"Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship, 1882–1898," by
Kate McDowell. The Library Quarterly, Volume 79 Number 3 (July 2009)

Women who promoted library services to children in the United States in the late nineteenth century introduced the systematic use of survey research on library practice to the field of professional librarianship. They created a series of qualitative survey‐based reports, the Reading of the Young reports, which were presented at ALA conferences from 1882 to 1898. These reports both assessed the current state of and promoted the development of services to youth. The research model they developed was adopted by other women and men in librarianship for research on other aspects of the emerging field of public library service. The discourse of librarianship had been previously based on individual expertise, and their research model changed the field in two ways: first, by gathering empirical evidence about library practice, and second, by introducing a collaborative model of discourse. These findings about the influence of women during the early years of librarianship call for reexamination of historical explanations for feminization of the field.
The Library Quarterly, Volume 79 Number 3 (July 2009): 279–300
© 2009 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

CAUT Policy Statement on Advancing Women’s Human Rights.

Action should be taken to achieve and secure equity for women in Canadian universities and colleges, eliminating the current socio-economic and professional disparities between women and men.

The employer and the academic staff association should acknowledge and/or reaffirm that advancing women’s human rights is required for universities and colleges to fulfill their mandate and to fully serve the public good.

The employer and the academic staff association should take active measures to ensure that women working in universities and colleges are not over-represented in contract positions, and that the numbers of women employed at all levels are in the same proportion as they are in the duly qualified population, with equitable opportunities for career advancement.1

To achieve the above, the employer must:

1. Ensure that the rights of all women in the academic community, particularly Aboriginal women, women with disabilities, women of colour, transgendered women, and lesbians, and including academic staff, support staff, and students, as well as visitors to campus, are respected and promoted;

2. Encourage equitable participation of women and men students and academic staff in all academic disciplines;

3. Rectify the current imbalance between men and women in senior administrative posts;

4. Redress inequities identified by part-time and contract academic staff;

5. Encourage research, teaching, and scholarly work by women and about issues of concern to women;

6. Recognize and fairly reward the community service of academic staff who work as public intellectuals and human rights activists both on campus and in the community;

7. Maintain a qualified equity officer and enforce clearly specified equity programs;

8. Conduct regular pay equity reviews and redress unfair anomalies;

9. Develop family-friendly policies, including those affecting recruitment, hiring, retention, tenure, and promotion;

10. Ensure access to affordable and convenient child care on or near campus; and

11. Guarantee pension equity.

Academic staff associations must negotiate appropriate amendments to their collective agreements or terms and conditions of employment to ensure equal pay for work of equal value, maternity leave, parental leave, compassionate care leave, equitable pensions, reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities, freedom from harassment, childcare access, equitable policies on contract academic staff and on part-time and limited-term appointments, and non-discrimination in employment practices, hiring, promotion, and working conditions.

Approved by the CAUT Women’s Committee, September 2006;
approved by Council, November 2006.

National Museum of Women in the Arts sponsors the Library Fellows Program established in 1989 to encourage and support the creation of artists' books and to benefit the Library and Research Center. Although collaborative works are allowed and even encouraged, the artist who is responsible for the overall creation, design and realization of the book must be a woman.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts funds the production of a
limited edition artist's book each year. Postmark deadline is May 31.

Carol Ann Duffy was named poet laureate of Britain on Friday, the first time in its 341-year history that the post — held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes — has gone to a woman.

Female, gay and, let's not forget, from the North of Britain

Carol Ann Duffy in the John Rylands Library in Manchester on Friday.

Does it matter that after nearly four centuries the post of poet laureate is held by a woman? It’s no bad thing, certainly — let the makers of Doctor Who take note. But far more important is that the post is held by a poet of skill, talent and great heart, qualities that Carol Ann Duffy possesses in ample measure.

Carol Ann Duffy is to take over as the new Poet Laureate (Andrew Motion's ten year tenure officially over as of midnight last night).

Glasgow born Duffy has the job - the first woman and the first Scot since the post was first created in 1668.

Duffy, 53, won the Dylan Thomas prize for poetry in 1989, and is known for tackling down-to-earth subjects like street crime, prostitution and housework. Her poetry has been hailed by fellow writers as original, imaginative and often bitingly satirical or plain humorous.