March is Women History Month celebrating their contributions to history, culture and society. Since 1987 in the United States, the month has been set aside for this annual observation. OSU Libraries’ has several noteworthy microform collections that examine history from the perspective of women who lived through those events.
The Gerritsen Women’s History (HQ1121. G4 MICROFILM and HQ1121 G4 MICROFICHE4) is a diverse collection of women’s archival materials and feminist records covering fifteen languages and over 4,700 volumes originally collected by Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen. The collection owned by the University of Kansas, was subsequently filmed and made available to libraries throughout the world. OSU Libraries’ holding consist of 115 reels of microfilm and 3485 microfiche titles.
Herstory (HQ1101. H47 MICROFILM) is a collection of materials written from the feminist perspective, and or told from the women’s point of view filmed from the holdings of the International Women’s History Periodical Archive assembled by the Women’s History Research Center at Berkeley. The 90-reel collection consists of over 800 women’s newspaper, journals, etc. from the 1950’s thru the 1970’s. Although the main focus is material from U.S. sources, there are a few international publications included in the collection.
Pamphlets in American History -Women (HQ1410.P35 MICROFICHE) is a microfiche collection comprised biographies, memoirs, letters, congressional hearings, etc. written by women or concerning women from the early 19th thru the late 20th centuries. The primary source of the material was from the collections of the Historical Society of Wisconsin and augmented with holding of other research libraries’ holdings. The collection contains over 600 titles, and is searchable by individual titles.