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Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents … the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), February 2, 2012

The Government Resources Section of the North Carolina Library Association welcomes you to a series of webinars designed to help us all do better reference work by increasing our familiarity with government information resources, and by discovering the best strategies for navigating them.

In this session Beth Ann Koelsch, the curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will discuss the history of the WVHP, describe the collection development policy for the Project, and how the collections’ materials are made accessible to researchers. She will also examine some of the intersections between “govdocs” and the WVHP archives.

The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), established at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1998, documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I. The collection offers a wide range of source material, including photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, oral histories, military patches and insignia, uniforms, and posters, as well as published works.

Beth Ann Koelsch has been the curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2008. The WVHP has over 500 collections and has conducted over 325 oral history interviews with women veterans from WWII to the present conflicts in the Mideast. The Project has a strong digital component and puts the oral history transcriptions and other digitized materials online.  Koelsch previously worked as a project archivist at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University, Durham, NC.  She received her MLS from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007.

We will meet together for Session #13, online on February 2 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (EDT). Please RSVP for the Session by February 1 at 5:00 pm using this link: http://tinyurl.com/grs-session13

Technical requirements: We will be using collaborative software called Elluminate. It requires that you be able to download Java onto your computer, but you do not need any special software. After you RSVP, we will send you a link that you can use to test the software. If you have any questions, please contact Lynda Kellam (lmkellam@uncg.edu). You do not need a microphone as a chat system is available in the software, but you do need speakers or headphones.