The Texas Woman's University Library has revived its newsletter DATA ENTRIES
and is making it available in electronic form through free subscription over
the Internet.
 
DATA ENTRIES will cover events at the Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library in
Denton, Texas, as well as developments in public services and the Woman's
Collection (see below for more information about TWU's several special
collections.)
 
To subscribe to the quarterly newsletter, simply send a note requesting a
subscription to one of the following addresses:
 
                            s_natale@twu (BITNet)
                                      or
                         s_natale@twu.edu (Internet)
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                            TWU Woman's Collection
 
Perhaps it's not surprising that Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas,
has a "woman's" collection in the library, but the fact that this collection
is among the finest in the nation may be a surprise to many.  Begun in 1932
at the behest of one of the university's presidents, biographies of
significant women were collected to serve as role models for the students at
Texas State College for Women, later to be called Texas Woman's University.
 
Today, the Woman's Collection, housed at the Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library
on the TWU campus, contains more than 42,000 books and periodicals, 2500 feet
of manuscript and archival records, and approximately 20,000 photographs.  In
addition, the library acquires many of the large microfilm editions of
manuscripts and printed collections published by other libraries and boasts
a woman's clothing and textile collection.
 
The historical manuscripts include the personal papers of Hermine Tobolowsky,
the "Mother of the Texas Equal Legal Rights Amendment," Sarah Weddington (Roe
v. Wade), and authors Claire Myers Owens, LaVerne Harrel Clark, and Edith
Deen.  In addition, the library has collected the records of significant
women's organizations such as the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, The
Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women, the American Association
of University Women (Texas), and the Texas state archives of Delta Kappa
Gamma.  In addition, to add to its growing collection on women in the
military, TWU acquired the records of the WASP, Inc., the veterans
organization for the Women's Airforce Service Pilots who flew during World
War II.
 
The Cookbook and Menu Collection has become one of the major collections in
the world since the acquisition of the Julie Benell Cookbook Collection and
the greater portion of the Cookery and Gastronomy Library of Mrs. Thomas M.
Scruggs and Margaret Cook.  The entire collection numbers approximately
12,000 volumes.
 
TWU, the largest university primarly for women in the U.S, has approximately
10,000 students and is located 35 miles north of the Dallas-Fort Worth
metroplex.  The Library houses more than three-quarters of a million items.
For questions about the Woman's Collection, contact Dawn Letson
817-898-3754 or at s_letson@twu.edu (Internet).
 
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To access the Texas Woman's University Library Collections via Internet:
 
1. TELNET to TWU.EDU
 
2. At the USERNAME: prompt enter IRIS
 
3. At the login: prompt press ENTER
 
4. At the ONLINE CATALOG Menu enter 1
 
To exit enter E from the Main Menu, then enter 3
 
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