| The Center for Pacific Northwest Studies at Western
Washington University is pleased to announce its partnership in
the Washington Women’s History Consortium, an initiative to
encourage access to records documenting modern women’s history
through professional archives across the state. The Center for
Pacific Northwest Studies has been awarded $9,390 in funding
from the Consortium, which will be used to digitize key items
from its archival collections, including photographs,
manuscripts, oral history interviews and transcripts. The Center
will produce written finding aids describing newly processed
collections, as well as providing access to numerous existing
finding aids. The Center will also actively solicit new archival
collections and make them available to the public.
Created in 2005 by state statute (RCW 27.34.360), and led by
the Washington State Historical Society, the Consortium is
dedicated to preserving resources about Washington Women’s
history and making these resources publicly available. The
legislative mandate of the Washington Women’s History Consortium
encourages the collection and preservation of materials
important to understanding Washington women's history, with
special emphasis on the last several decades. To help implement
this mandate, the Consortium is encouraging the donation of
materials related to the women’s rights movement of the late
20th century and the expanding role of women in modern society,
which are currently kept in private collections, to the
Consortium member archives. These donations will create
important research collections for this era. As part of a 2006
legislative appropriation, funds will be allocated to the
members to process the materials and make them available online
in 2007.
For further information and a complete list of member
institution contacts and institution collection guidelines, see
the Women’s History Consortium website
or contact Coordinator Shanna Stevenson (Tel: 360-586-0171 or
e-mail
sstevenson@wshs.wa.gov.)
For further information about the Center for Pacific
Northwest Studies, or to make inquiries about donating or
accessing collection materials, please consult the Center’s
website at www.acadweb.wwu.edu/cpnws, or contact Director Chris
Friday or Archivist Ruth Steele (Tel: 360 650 7747, or
e-mail ruth.steele@wwu.edu).
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