Finding the Women in Library and Information History LIHG Annual Conference
: 'Finding the women in library and information history'
Saturday 22 June 2019 at The John Rylands Library, Manchester.
Programme:
To facilitate travel, the conference will begin at 10:10am (with
registration from 9:45am) and close by 16:20pm.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Papers
Elizabeth Gow (Keynote) on Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands
Library (Title TBC)
Amy Bowles, Women and library ownership in early modern England.
Klára Lázok, The Evolution of an 18th Century Transsylvanian Noble Woman
from Collector to Connoisseur. The Development of the Library of Zsuzsanna
Bethlen of Iktár (1770-1797).
Michelle Crowther, 'Each doing a little much would be accomplished'
Elizabeth Fry and her benefactors: crowd-funding libraries
nineteenth-century-style.
Jill Whitelock, ‘Access to any books that she may need’: the admission of
women to Cambridge University Library, 1869–1923.
Karen Attar, An Unsung Heroine: Miss Muriel Sinton Quinn.
Sian Prosser, The women who managed the 'expanding universe' of the library
of the Royal Astronomical Society from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Tanya Kirk, 'The Loveliest Librarian'? Librarianship as women's vocation
in
career romances of the 1940s-1960s.
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