Interesting Exhibits

Interesting Exhibits

This is my second blog. Using the Bloglines feeds has been a fun, learning experience. While reviewing the posts for Librarians’ Internet Index: New This Week, I came across a posting pertaining to two library exhibits. The first post was for War, Women & Survival: Sometimes it takes courage to survive. The posting provided a synopsis of the exhibit and a link. I am interested in women’s history and exhibits.

War, Women & Survival is an exhibit from the Manuscript and Special Collections of the University of Nottingham. The original exhibit was on display in 2005. It is a chronological exhibit. Women shared their stories and provided images. The online version includes substantial text about sacrifice and service, in battle and at home.

I also found a post for another exhibit focusing on women, Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts. This 2003 exhibit was from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Intimate Circles includes a photograph gallery and essays about photographers, writers and other arts related professions.

I probably would not have found out about these exhibits had I not received the feeds. The availability of feeds is very useful; I will continue to use them after this class.