Library Guides: Women's History Month: Welcome

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Women's History Month

Women's History Month
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About This Guide

This is your guide to library and web resources for Women's History Month.

This guide includes a selection of library resources such as books, eBooks, and videos to help highlight the incredible lives and contributions of women throughout history.

Featured Resource

The Girl Explorers by Jayne Zanglein
Publication Date: 2021

eBook
The inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers—an organization of adventurous female world explorers—and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists.

Video Collections

Women in STEM
Women have always made significant contributions to science, technology, engineering and math, but inequalities remain in those fields. In this selection of films, we meet women breaking down those barriers.
10 Films by Influential Women
From politics to the environment to the arts, these films by some of Canada's finest filmmakers address the issues that affect us all.
Extraordinary Women (Video Series)
This series, featuring archive, interviews and dramatic re-enactment, reveals the price women paid for their achievements and adversities they overcame to emerge as triumphant, inspirational icons of the 20th century.