Women's History in Michigan Booklist, Michigan Notable Books Author Tour, & Traveling Libraries Program
Women's History in Michigan Booklist
March is
Women's History Month – commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. Help celebrate the history of Michigan women through checking out titles from
our
Women's History in Michigan Booklist:
Bordin, Ruth
Women
at Michigan : the "dangerous experiment," 1870s to the present
MICHIGAN LD3280 .B67 1999
Buchanan, Shonda, author.
Black
Indian
MICHIGAN PS3602 .U34363 Z46 2019
Burns, Virginia Law
Bold
women in Michigan history
MICHIGAN CT241 .B87 2006
Giese, Elizabeth Homer, editor.
Michigan
women's suffrage : a political history
MICHIGAN JK1911.M5 M53 1995
Graff, George P.
Michigan
women : national and international leaders
MICHIGAN HQ1438 .M5 G73 1996
Harley, Rachel Brett.
Michigan
women firsts and founders
MICHIGAN HQ1438 .M5 H3 1992
Harley, Rachel Brett.
Michigan
women : firsts and founders, volume II
MICHIGAN HQ 1438 .M5 H32 1995
Majher, Patricia
Ladies
of the lights : Michigan women in the U.S. Lighthouse
MICHIGAN VK1024 .M5 M35 2010
Majher, Patricia, author.
Great
girls in Michigan history
MICHIGAN HQ1438 .M5 M35 2015
Massie, Larry B.
Birchbark
belles : women on the Michigan frontier
MICHIGAN F565 .B57 1993
Michigan Political History Society
Michigan's
female legislators : a collection of all female legislators who have served in Michigan's legislature from 1920-present
MICHIGAN JK5866 .M523 2019
Michigan Women's Hall of Fame ; directed and produced by Gary May; writer & host, Sheri Jones.
We
can do it! : a celebration of Michigan women Michigan
MICHIGAN AV HQ1120 .U62 M53 2009
Miller, Jeanne E., author.
A
matter of fairness : a history of the Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan
MICHIGAN LC1567 .M56 2014
Weddon, Willah.
Michigan
press women : today and yesterday
MICHIGAN PN4844 .M5 W43 1996
Wolcott, Victoria W.;
Remaking
respectability : African American women in interwar Detroit
MICHIGAN F574 .D4 N488 2001
Find additional booklists on Michigan topics by going to the
Michigan Booklists section of the Library of Michigan's website.
2023 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour
The Library of Michigan is in the final stages of scheduling the 2023 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour. 50 libraries across the state
will be hosting authors from the 2023 Michigan Notable Books list between April through June. The tour dates will be announced on the Michigan Notable Books website by March 15:
www.Michigan.gov/NotableBooks.
The Michigan Notable Books program and author tour are made possible through the support of the
Library of Michigan,
Library of Michigan Foundation,
Michigan Humanities,
Michigan Center for the Book, and other sponsors that are listed on the
Library of Michigan Foundation’s Sponsor Acknowledgement page.
Photos from 2022 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour.
State Library's Traveling Libraries Program
In our previous Special Collections Update, we featured the origins of the State Library's Associate Libraries program, which came from Public
Act No. 28 of 1895: "An act to provide for the management and control, and for the extension of the usefulness of the State Library." The legislation helped reorganize the management of the State Library and established two key programs: the Traveling
Library system and the Associate Library program. Shifting our focus to the Traveling Library system, they were designated by Public Act No. 28 as "Michigan Traveling Libraries" and comprised of collections of 50 books that libraries, schools, granges, reading
clubs, and other organizations across the state could request be sent to their community.
A traveling library could be kept from three to six months. Topics ranged from ethics, religion, social science, natural science, literature,
fiction, description and travel, biography, history, and others. A fee of $1.25 paid for all expenses of one library. The libraries were sent out in oak cases accompanied by loan cards and other details necessary for the care of the books, including full instructions
for the management of the library. By 1903, nearly 300 of the libraries were making their way across Michigan. One would travel to the very outermost point of the state in 1932 by going to a school located in Chippewa Harbor on Isle Royale.
The traveling library program proved to be one of the essential mechanisms for getting books and information to the people of Michigan,
especially for those located in rural areas with limited or no access to libraries. Sadly, no known examples of the oak cases exist at all today. The storage area for the traveling libraries at the State Library when it was located in the State Office Building
flooded with 2 feet of water during the 1951 fire and the program was likely phased out in the years after. The Library of Michigan has only a few photos showing traveling libraries being used (see below for 2 examples). If anyone has photos of a Michigan
traveling library, please consider sending copies to the Library of Michigan. Contact the Library by either emailing
Librarian@Michigan.gov or calling 517-335-1477.
(Left) Traveling Library No. 42 at the Essex Grange in Maple Rapids and (Right) a traveling library at the Cadmus Grange.
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