Stormingwomen: #22 (Week 9) Ebooks

Thursday, March 15, 2007

#22 (Week 9) Ebooks

I regularly download ebooks to my IDOD, which is great way to listen to a good story while driving or traveling, or anytime really. I don't really like the way the catalog arranges the audio book collection. It would be ideal if we could create a browseable feature, showing all of the audio books on the shelf. I frequently browse on the first floor, but a digital stacks experience would be better than just a regular catalog search. I was unfamiliar with the worldelibrary. Libraries need to provide better access to sound recording of this kind. Itunes has a good enough selection of the NYT best picks, but the cost is high, and it is even worse in the books stores.

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Why Storming Women, one might ask?

In naming this blog, I was thinking in context to one of my current research projects documenting the "Feminist Capital" through oral history. I presented a paper “Storming Politics: San Jose Women and the “Feminist Capital” 1974-2007” at the Social Science Historical Association in Minneapolis this past fall. This paper was based on several oral history interviews I conducted this past year. To date, I have interviewed Janet Gray Hayes, the first female mayor of San Jose, and the first women to be elected in a large city. I also interviewed, Susanne Wilson, who served on the City Council during this same time period, and went on to serve as a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Santa Clara County became known as the "Feminist Capital" of world as result of the success of women in elected office and in key administrative posts. Susie Wilson, Zoe Lofgren, Dianne McKenna, and to some degree Sally Reed created their own female majority on the Board. I plan to write an article on this research in the near future.