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Acclaimed women’s organizations and scholars offer curated lists of best resources to honor Women’s History Month

Lists are part of global library resources on WorldCat.org

DUBLIN, Ohio, 8 March 2023—To commemorate and celebrate Women’s History Month, WorldCat.org, the website that connects online searchers to the world's libraries, has collaborated with some of the most renowned women’s organizations and scholars to share thought-provoking lists of important works about, by, and for women. These materials are intended to provide educators, parents, students, and the general public with an understanding of the most important and meaningful resources for Women’s History Month and for women’s studies throughout the year.

Celebrated in the U.S. since 1987, Women’s History Month honors the brave, accomplished, and influential women whose perspectives and achievements have changed the course of the nation’s history. To help make engagement in that history more accessible and actionable, WorldCat.org has collected and curated resources and expert lists on a topic page about women’s lives, experiences, and contributions from some of the leading organizations and leaders in the field, including The National Women’s History Alliance, which spearheaded the movement to declare March as Women’s History Month, the National Women’s Studies Association, and The Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice.

The Women’s History topic page contains lists of books, documentaries, films, videos, and more, curated across focus areas that include:

20 seminal moments from American women’s history
The fundamentals of women's history
Women and the economy
Women in politics
Women in sports
Anthologies of women writers
Biographies and memoirs of notable women
Popular stories and depictions of women
Other popular searches on, or related to, women’s history on WorldCat.org

“When we helped establish Women’s History Month, our aim was to promote women’s history through education, empowerment, equality and inclusion,” said Molly Murphy MacGregor, Executive Director and Co-Founder of The National Women’s History Alliance. “This unique collaboration with WorldCat.org creates a centralized, comprehensive, and accessible resource that enables people to explore the strength and inspiration of the women who came before us – and the remarkable women working among us today.”

To learn more about the vital role of women in American history, visit the Women’s History topic page on WorldCat.org at https://worldcat.org/topics/womens-history.

About WorldCat.org

Since 2006, WorldCat.org has been the window to the collections and resources of more than 10,000 libraries in more than 100 countries around the world. WorldCat.org is a unique destination, representing the world’s largest library community on the web. WorldCat.org is an innovation of OCLC, a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs to member libraries and the library community at large. OCLC, member libraries, publishers, and other partner organizations collaboratively maintain WorldCat.org. Explore WorldCat.org on the web.

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OCLC is a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation. Through OCLC, member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. Libraries gain efficiencies through OCLC’s WorldShare, a complete set of library management applications and services built on an open, cloud-based platform. It is through collaboration and sharing of the world’s collected knowledge that libraries can help people find answers they need to solve problems. Together as OCLC, member libraries, staff, and partners make breakthroughs possible.

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WorldCat.org puts the world's libraries at people's fingertips

WorldCat.org's redesigned user experience makes exploring billions of resources in thousands of libraries around the world even easier

DUBLIN, Ohio, 24 August 2022—WorldCat.org, the only website that connects online searchers to the world's libraries, has been redesigned and reimagined to offer greater accessibility to the collections and resources of more than 10,000 libraries. From an updated technology infrastructure to a contemporary search interface and a wealth of additional user-centric features, the new site meets the needs of information seekers from academic researchers to those looking for their next vacation read.

"Libraries are the greatest sources of knowledge on the planet. And the updates to WorldCat.org make the world's largest collection of library resources on the web more discoverable," said Skip Prichard, President and CEO of OCLC, a global library nonprofit that's been innovating library technology, resources, and research for more than 50 years. "WorldCat.org is a powerful guide to library resources. There's nothing else like it. It's the only site that connects people to thousands of libraries and their collections in one simple search."

Read the complete release here.