Girls in Bloomers Are More Effective Than Girls in Skirts: The Camp Fire Girls in American Juvenile Fiction, 1910-1920

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
M. Paul Holsinger
1912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerda Sebbelov
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Author(s):  
Mavis Reimer ◽  
Clare Bradford ◽  
Heather Snell

This chapter focuses on the juvenile fiction of the British settler colonies to 1950, and considers how writers both take up forms familiar to them from British literature and revise these forms in the attempt to account for the specific geography, politics, and cultures of their places. It is during this time that the heroics associated with building the empire had taken hold of British cultural and literary imaginations. Repeatedly, the juvenile fiction of settler colonies returns to the question of the relations between settlers and Indigenous inhabitants—sometimes respecting the power of Indigenous knowledge and traditions; often expressing the conviction of natural British superiority to Indigenous ways of knowing and living; always revealing, whether overtly or covertly, the haunting of the stories of settler cultures by the displacement of Indigenous peoples on whose land those cultures are founded.


1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-32
Author(s):  
Maryly Snow

How did I come to be both an artist and a librarian? From the start, I never wanted to support myself with my art. Way back then my art was private. In order for the work to be true, it was best protected from the whims of the market. And since I had to work, I might as well contribute to the common weal, and do nothing that could harm the social fabric. After several years of experimenting with social work, sales, bookkeeping, cocktail waitressing, organizing Camp Fire Girls, census-taking, and other sundry occupations, it was finally librarianship that demanded the most of my top-notch liberal arts education and my desire to do good in a world so complex that it was often impossible to know what was good from what was not.


1917 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-37
Author(s):  
Roy Mason
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2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Lacroix

This article describes why and how the University of Alberta Libraries built a Spanish language children’s literature collection. Selection criteria, findability, visibility, and assessment are addressed in the context of this collection. Practical information is provided to help librarians build similar collections and promote them.


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