Reference – Bethlehem Area Public Library https://www.bapl.org Libraries are for everyone Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:54:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.bapl.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-Bethlehem-Area-Public-Library.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Reference – Bethlehem Area Public Library https://www.bapl.org 32 32 161463730 Celebrate and Learn about Women’s History with BAPL! https://www.bapl.org/celebrate-and-learn-about-womens-history-with-bapl/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:54:54 +0000 https://www.bapl.org/?p=33677 March is Women’s History Month, a time to recognize the impact that women of the past have on our lives today. The leaders of the Women’s Suffrage movement brought change to all levels of the American democratic process when they won women the right to vote and hold elected offices.

It has only been a little more than a century since voting was restricted to a smaller segment of the population. Americans debated whether women should have the right to vote for most of the 19th century. The 19th amendment to the Constitution was passed on August 18, 1920, ensuring that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

There are fascinating stories of the women who campaigned for full citizenship, led marches, and built national and even international advocacy groups.

Here are two ways to celebrate and learn about these important events:

  1. Make a picture frame celebrating the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Kits are available from the Reference Department at the Main Branch (one kit per adult library card holder, while supplies last)
  2. Explore our online resources! Your BAPL library card gives you access to videos, magazine articles, and even a searchable archive through our website. Here is some of the information you can find on the women’s suffrage movement.

Flipster

Flipster is a digital magazine service that allows you to read and download popular magazine articles. Within Flipster, you can search magazine titles for specific articles.

National Geographic History – “The Silent Sentinels;” July/August, 2020, Issue 3, vol. 6, pp. 60-71

Family Tree Magazine – “After a Fashion;” May/June, 2017, Issue 3, vol. 18, pp 42-47

Kanopy

Kanopy is a streaming service that gives you access to movies, television shows, documentaries and instructional videos. You can watch it on your iOS, Android, Roku or smart TV. Available to all Bethlehem District patrons with a library card.

Videos about women’s suffrage:

One Woman, One Vote (2020)

United States, episode 77, “The Women’s Movement” (2003)

Lives of famous suffragists

The Trial of Susan B. Anthony (2020) (episode 5)

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman (2020) (episode 24)

Hearts and Hands (1988)

Ida B. Wells; A Passion for Justice (1989)

Ida B. Wells; Crusader for Human Rights (2005)

Gale Resources

Gale Resources offers articles, searchable databases, ebooks, and online courses. The State Library of Pennsylvania provides Gale Resources and other databases through the Power Library link on our website.

Suffragist of the Great Northwest  – SUFFRAGIST OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST: ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY WORKED TIRELESSLY TO SECURE WOMEN IN OREGON THE RIGHT TO VOTE. – Document – Gale OneFile: U.S. History

Picketing the White House in 1919 – 1919: placards at the White House: fed up with the inaction of conservative suffragists, Alice Paul decided on the highly unorthodox strategy of pressuring the president – Document – Gale OneFile: U.S. History

The Jailed for Freedom pin – Jailed for freedom pin – Document – Gale OneFile: U.S. History

Women secured the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory  – Wyoming’s women got the vote first – way back in 1869, soon after the new territory was formed – Document – Gale OneFile: U.S. History

Speech in support of voting rights – Susan B. Anthony: ‘tt was we, the people; not we, the white males’: a suffragist’s bold argument that women deserve to be citizens – Document – Gale OneFile: U.S. History

Early films for voting rights – Suffragette Cinema: Your Girl and Mine lobbied for women’s voting rights – Document – Gale OneFile: U.S. History

The deciding vote – Mother knew best: ninety years ago Harry Burn obeyed his mom and cast the deciding ballot that gave women the right to vote – Document – Gale OneFile: U.S. History

JSTOR

JSTOR is a database which contains more than twelve million articles, books, primary sources, and  journals. JSTOR is currently only offered in-house when connected to Wifi or on one of our public computers.

Women’s suffrage and race – Teaching about Slavery, the Abolitionist Movement, and Women’s Suffrage on JSTOR

Early 20th century feminism – The New Woman: Changing Views of Women in the 1920s on JSTOR

Sojourner Truth – The “Green-Backs of Civilization”: Sojourner Truth and Portrait Photography on JSTOR

Patrons can come into Main Library for supplies to make a WHM photo frame.

]]> 33677 Antiracist Resources https://www.bapl.org/antiracistresources/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:16:15 +0000 https://www.bapl.org/?p=25420 The Bethlehem Area Public Library is committed to actively supporting essential conversations and actions to confront racism in America.

This page will feature antiracist resources available in our collections, links to external resources, and information about library programs that promote antiracist conversation within our community and with our patrons.

In our collections

Antiracist reading

 

Black authors, thinkers, and creators

“Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction Is a Start. But Don’t Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction,” Jasmine Guillory, writing for Time Magazine

N.K. Jemisin
One of the most important writers working today, you simply fall in to Jemisin’s worlds, care desperately for her characters, and live alongside them as they search, love, struggle and survive. The first author to win the Hugo Award (honoring the best of science fiction and fantasy) three times consecutively, for each volume in her Broken Earth trilogy.
Octavia Butler
Spare and haunting, like a good friend telling you a strange true story by the fireside. Her writing about writing (including essays in Bloodchild) is just as inspiring as her fiction.
Jasmine Guillory
Guillory writes modern romances you just want to hug. Smart, sexy, and so much fun.
Toni Morrison 
To read Toni Morrison, through her fiction or her non-fiction, is to encounter a great mind, and to have your own mind made richer.
Margo Jefferson 
Theater critic and culture writer Jefferson’s memoir, about growing up in the 1950s in the upper crust of Black Chicago society–her father was head of pediatrics at a hospital, her mother was a socialite–is as beautifully written as it is illuminating about privilege and race.
Colson Whitehead
Whether he’s writing about zombies, the fleeting summer vacations of youth, elevator repair, or putting a postmodern spin on the Underground Railroad, Whitehead is always inventive, always humane, always himself.
Films and documentaries
On Kanopy

In the catalog

Available via Inter-Library Loan (email interlibraryloan@bapl.org to request)

  • Blackout, dir. by Jerry LaMothe
  • Middle of Nowhere, dir. by Ava DuVernay
  • Pariah, dir. by Dee Rees

Past programs

The Roots of Anti-Racism: A Reading Group

  • A 4-session reading group offered in partnership with Lehigh University. This group invites community members to examine the historical roots of anti-racist thought and action. We will discuss poetry, essays, speeches, and personal narratives by Black writers of the 19th century through today. Including works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, we will learn together about the roots of anti-racism.

Courageous Conversations: Stamped from the Beginning

Dialogues on Racial Justice: An Introductory Workshop Series on Issues of Systemic Racism in the United States

  • A 4-week workshop covering how racism is constructed and maintained, historical contexts of systemic oppression and police brutality, and the progress towards equitable reform for restorative justice. Taught by Linda Wiggins-Chavis; thank you, Ms. Wiggins-Chavis!
  • If you are interested in hearing more about this program or contacting Linda Wiggins-Chavis, please email Janine at jcarambot@bapl.org.

 

BAPL Virtual Film Club for July 2020: The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Available to stream on Kanopy)

Read a review of The Last Black Man in San Francisco in The Southsider!

 

The Clearing: Movement towards Communities of Compassion

  • A Dancing Mindfulness Gathering with Dr. Alisha Tatem. Thank you, Dr. Tatem, for leading this program!
  • If you are interested in hearing more about this program or contacting Dr. Tatem, please email Janine at jcarambot@bapl.org.

 

Black Women Writers: Past and Present

  • Presented in partnership with Lehigh University Dept. Of English and facilitated by Jo Grim and Shelby Carr

External links

]]> 25420 New POWER Library E-Resources https://www.bapl.org/new-power-library-e-resources/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:52:54 +0000 https://www.bapl.org/?p=22857 POWER Library now offers two new resources,  Auto Repair Source and Small Engine Repair Reference Center (SERRC).  Auto Repair Source  contains “the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles.”  It provides repair instructions and diagrams, parts estimates, and recall information.  SERRC allows users to “find detailed repair guides for all types of small engines.”  It also offers advice for routine maintenance.

Three previously-available resources are also now available: Teacher Reference Center, LISTA, and GreenFile.  Teacher Reference Center provides abstracts for 280 peer-reviewed journals, LISTA indexes over 700 library journals, and GreenFile provides resources on pollution, recycling, and the environment.  You can access Power Library through the BAPL Research page.

 

]]> 22857 Library Research From Home https://www.bapl.org/salem-press/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:52:16 +0000 https://www.bapl.org/?p=21480

Writing a paper? Researching a passion project? You can find valuable library resource tools online. Try the Salem Press reference shelf below. You will be asked to enter your library card number, then you’re off to a whole virtual world of reliable and fascinating information.

Salem Press history titles include a wide range of topics spanning American history and the world. Learn about important moments and figures in our history, or about literature, science, health, and more. You can save your research to a folder and build your references as you go. Give it a shot!

 

]]> 21480 Research Your Family Tree at BAPL https://www.bapl.org/research-your-family-tree-at-bapl/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:08:21 +0000 https://www.bapl.org/?p=21180 If you are interested in learning more about your family history or creating a family tree, come to the library! We have a lot of resources for genealogical research available. You can search census records, obituary archives, and more. The full list can be found below.

Also, did you know you can book a librarian at BAPL to get some one-on-one research time? Our librarians can help you build that family tree or answer any in-depth research question you may have.

Genealogy Research at BAPL

 

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