Friday, September 11, 1998

08:32:37 AM

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America's First Ladies

Hillary Rodham Clinton recently launched a web site devoted to the history and legacy of America's first ladies. Researchers, scholars, students, and history buffs, like myself, have a geat new resource for the study of American history - the online National First Ladies' Library. This comprehensive annotated bibliographic database,consisting of nearly 40,000 records, including books, manuscripts, journal articles, and audio-visual materials about our 43 American first ladies, was developed by the noted author and historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony who has written a number of books on the first ladies. You will find it is truly a gem - a list of resources and their locations in our nation's libraries, presidential libraries, college and university collections, and the new National First Ladies' Library, located in the restored Saxton McKinley House in downtown Canton, Ohio. The dedication will be held on June 8th and remember that Canton is only a short driving distance from most NOLA libraries. While there, you could also visit the nearby McKinley Memorial Mausoleum. Mary Regula, wife of Congressman Ralph Regula, was instrumental in founding this unique Library.

While accessing the First Ladies web site, learn more about Ida Saxton McKinley the wife of President William McKinley who was born in Niles, the location of the McKinley Memorial Library and the McKinley Museum.

For a glimpse into the activities of the current First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, visit her own web site and that of the White House.

Butler Institute of American Art

Most people over 40 never imagined that someday they could tour some of the finest art museums from the comfort of their home. Today that is possible via the Internet. The web site developed by the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown was recently ranked fifth in the world in the museum category by Yahoo. It boasts of 600 images of art, 200 scholarly studies of artists, and thousands of links to other museums around the world and is accessed by over 2,000 persons a day. Although the Butler owns 12,000 works of art, only 2 percent can be displayed at any one time. Now the Museum's web site will be able to showcase many of those works which would not be seen otherwise because of lack of space.

Web sites ranking higher than Butler included the Smithsonian in Washington, the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, and the Galleria Degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy. No tour would be complete without visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Louvre Museum  in Paris which contains works of art dating from the birth of the civilizations of the Mediterranean area.

The Internet - what a great way to travel and explore the museums of the world.

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NOLA Regional Library System

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