“Women taking the lead to save our planet” is the theme for 2009.

See the honorees at the National Women’s History Project and explore their activities.

Check out the photographs and articles available at the Library of Congress.

The National Endowment for the Humanities includes travelogues and articles about suffrage and literature.

Interested in the real Rosie the Riveter? See the places and faces at the National Park Service celebration of Women’s History Month.

While the campaign is underway to raise interest and funding for a National Women’s History Museum, check out the CyberExhibits.

Search the special collection of Women’s History and find out about influential women in American history in the American National Biography including the first woman US Treasurer, Georgia Neese Clark.

Explore events from 1954-1968 at the Civil Rights Digital Library

This digital archive provides access to primary source including news film and television archives.

Browse events by year; 1954 features Brown vs. Board of Education and provides a brief description of this historic case as well as links to archival collections and reference resources including the Library of Congress, Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library.

Explore the African American Experience.

Topics covered include the Underground Railroad, the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement drawing from over 300 titles.

Resources include slave narratives, time lines, images and “In their Own Voices” audio clips, such as interviews with former slaves and music files.

The following books have recently been added to the Library’s collection:

• A new paradigm for global school systems : education for a long and happy life. LC191 .S6865 2007
• Buddhism in China, a historical survey. BL1430 .C486
• Environment, natural systems, and development : an economic valuation guide. HC79.E5 E573 1983
• Meaningful course revision : enhancing academic engagement using student learning data. LB2822.75 .W44 2006
• Motion pictures : stories of SR 26. HE356.W3 M68 2000
• The practice of Chinese Buddhism. BL1430 .W4 v.1
• The southern expansion of the Chinese people. DS740.6 .F58
• What is curriculum theory? LB1570 .P552 2004

You can locate these books using Griffin. To see what else we have added to our collection recently, take a look at our New Books page.

The following books have recently been added to the Library’s collection:

• The fall of Hong Kong : Britain, China and the Japanese occupation. DS796.H74 S64 2003
• The fracture of meaning : Japan’s synthesis of China from the eighth through the eighteenth centuries. DS821 .P59 1986
• Mass media and American politics. HN90.M3 G7 2006
• Crime and law in media culture. P96.C74 B76 2003
• Data communications and networking. TK5105 .F6617 2007

You can locate these books using Griffin. To see what else we have added to our collection recently, take a look at our New Books page.

On Wednesday, Oct. 10th, we hope you will attend both of the following events:

Books in the Information Age: The Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Its Digital Library
by Jean-Dominique Mellot, senior conservator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
3-4 p.m. in Multimedia Center Room 6

Mellot will discuss the history of France’s national library and the new Gallica project, a digitization project with the goal of digitizing the 80,000 published works in its collection.

Alternative Transportation Fair
10am – 2pm in the Firstenburg Student Commons

The fair focus on alternative transportation options in Vancouver. Many campus and community organizations will be participating, including Bicycle Alliance, City of Vancouver, C-Tran, WSU Vancouver Human-Powered Machines, Southwest Clean Air and Eco-motion. Drop by and get some useful information!