In this month’s Industry News, women authors are outperforming the men at long last, a Seven Sisters College appoints its first Black women President, a profile of drag as an expanding cultural force, a major survey of what Covid-19 taught librarians, and Women’s History Month at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In the 1960s women were the authors of just 18% of books published. By 2020, a new study has shown, that figure is more than 50%, for the first time in history. And it seems that the increasing number of female-authored books is good for the bottom line.
Source: Quartz
https://qz.com/women-are-now-publishing-more-books-than-men-and-its-go-1850177492
First Black Woman President for Mount Holyoke
Danielle Ren Holley is the first Black woman in the 186-year history of Mount Holyoke College to serve as permanent president, and the fourth Black woman in history to lead one of the original Seven Sisters Colleges.
Source: The Dig
Drag has expanded into a cultural force for the public, appreciated by millions of individuals in mainstream audiences worldwide.
Source: Nexus Radio
https://nexus.radio/news/drag-through-time-drag-has-always-been-a-form-of-art
Women’s History at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will honor prominent Black women in the arts and entertainment industry throughout March in recognition of Women’s History Month.
Source: The Washington Informer
What Covid-19 Taught Librarians
Three years after the shutdown of March 2020, American Libraries asked public, academic, school, and special librarians how the pandemic changed their work, what innovations and programs (curbside service, parking lot wi-fi, disinfecting collections, virtual programs, bookmobiles) are here to stay, and what they learned about their workplaces and users.
Source: American Libraries
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2023/03/01/from-makeshift-to-mainstay/