Papers of Joan R. Challinor, 1987-2006 (inclusive).

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Papers of Joan R. Challinor, 1987-2006 (inclusive).

Collection includes personal and professional correspondence documenting her involvement with a number of organizations, including the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, the International Women's Tribune Centre, and the Schlesinger Library; writings and speeches; grant applications and other files relating to Thomas Paine; audiotapes; and photographs.

4.75 linear ft. (4 cartons, 2 file boxes)

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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The Schlesinger Library had its origins in the gift of the Woman's Rights Collection (WRC) by Maud Wood Park '98 to Radcliffe College in 1943. Organized as the Women's Archives in 1948, it was renamed the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America in 1967 in recognition of the Schlesingers' strong support of the Library and the College. The WRC was originally housed in Longfellow Hall and the Women's Archives in Byerly Hall and moved in 1967 to the old Radcliffe...

International Women's Tribune Centre

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"The Great Court," at the opening ceremony of the World Conference on the UN Decade for Women, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1985. From "Forum '85 NGO Planning Committee Final Report." The International Women's Tribune Centre (previously known as the International Women's Year Tribune Project) was established by the NGO Forum Planning Committees to continue the work begun at the 1975 International Women's Year Tribune. This first Tribune, which resulted from an initiati...

Challinor, Joan R.

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Civic leader and writer Joan R. Challinor served as director of Knight-Ridder, Incorporated, as chair of the United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, chair of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and as a member of the Madison Council at the Library of Congress. Her dissertation was on the life of Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams (American University, 1982), and she s...

United States. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

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Created in 1970 as an independent and permanent agency within the executive branch of the Federal government, NCLIS is an impartial and objective advisor on library and information policy to both the executive and legislative branches. The Commission is composed of the Librarian of Congress as an ex-officio member and fourteen other members appointed for staggered five-year terms by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. From the description of NCLIS records, 1971-[...