A Reader's Advisory, readalike and new book blog. From Long Island with a Brentwood slant.
33% of the workforce were women at the end of World War II. In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a war community of 75,000 worked for the war effort, and although their community used more electricity than New York City, their project was unknown. Secrecy was a requirement. A rumor coould cost you your job and home. Little did they know that they were enriching Uranium to create the World’s Deadliest Weapon: The Atom Bomb. Denise Kiernan describes the lives of the young Southern Women recruited to work at Oak Ridge, who considered their stay temporary. Now forming the nucleus of the town, they reflect back on what their effort meant for themselves, and the world.
Girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II - Denise Kiernan (Link to Catalog)
Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC) (FSA / Office of War Information Color Photographs)
My favorite Didion quote out of Slouching Towards Bethlehem is in On Keeping a Notebook:
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
Pick up the books of Joan Didion @ your library by clicking here.
May Massee, photo c1922-30, P and A Studios, New York. May Massee Collection, University Libraries and Archives, Emporia State University; Also found as the frontispiece in The Horn Book. 12:4 (July-August 1936) p198.
Dr. Sharon McQueen (University of Wisconsin-Madison) teaches…
This Fantastic Tumblr, Women of Library History, gives us a tour of the influential librarians who have changed our profession. Follow them now.
Women in History. On this date (March 11), a 21 year-old Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. The Novel becomes a foundation for a new genre of literature: Science Fiction.
A little over a hundred years later, Mary Cartwright gives lectures on her work for the London Mathematical Society (LMS had asked for assistance with differential equations based on Radar) which describe the Butterfly Effect, and later, lay the foundation for Chaos Theory. (Article link to BBC about Mary Cartwright and Chaos Theory)
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Gayatri Singh (References Services Coordinator & Librarian for Communication at the Social Sciences & Humanities Library, UC San Diego) brought Regina Andrews to our attention and shared this information from a talk at her library by Ethelene Whitmire (UW-Madison):
Regina Andrews…
