<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Welcome to another year of Women of Library History posts sponsored by the ALA/SRRT Feminist Task Force! We will have a post scheduled for</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">every other Wednesday</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">. Our goal for 2019 is to keep posts going all year, rather than only posting in March.</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><div><font color="#333333" face="Lato, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Submissions are still being accepted for 2019–please see our <a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/submit2019" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(168,6,11);text-decoration-line:none">Call for Submissions</a> for details on the Tumblr site.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">-----------------------------</p><div><br></div><div><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:30px"><a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/183141060828/mar%C3%ADa-teresa-m%C3%A1rquez-and-chicle-the-first" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(168,6,11);text-decoration-line:none">MarÃa Teresa Márquez and CHICLE: The First Chicana/o Electronic Mailing List</a></h2><div><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">This piece by Miguel <i style="box-sizing:border-box">Juárez</i> is reprinted, with permission, from <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Flibrary.osu.edu%2Fblogs%2Fmujerestalk%2F2014%2F03%2F11%2Fon-chicle-and-teresa-marquez%2F&t=YTlkMzZhMjVhOTA3NTdmNGEwMTkzZTM2MDU0ZDk4OTg4YzI5YTQ3NyxrUG05NUwxNQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AmbBWSKl-DvfQkqR8zDOi2w&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F183141060828%2Fmar%C3%ADa-teresa-m%C3%A1rquez-and-chicle-the-first&m=0" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(168,6,11);text-decoration-line:none">Mujeres Talk, where it was posted in 2014</a>. </i> </div><div><br></div><div>...<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">In April 1991, Márquez attended the Nineteenth Annual Conference (</span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Los Dos M</i><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">é</i><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">xicos</i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">) of the National Association of [Chicana and ] Chicano Studies (NACS) in Hermosillo, Sonora, México. One of the panels, moderated by Professor Francisco LomelÃ, University of California, Santa Barbara, presented papers on “Literatura Chicana.† While discussing the topic, scholars raised problems encountered in communicating with each other and in sharing information on new publications and current research. Márquez volunteered to create a listserv or electronic mailing list and explained how it could be of use in keeping scholars informed. At UNM, she developed the list and Professor Erlinda V. Gonzales-Berry, then a faculty member in the UNM Spanish Department, coined its name-CHICLE (which translates into gum in Spanish). CHICLE stood for Chicana/Chicano Literature Exchange.... (Much more on the Tumblr page)</span></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></em><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><em><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></em></a></div>
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