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This Fact Is Overdue #19

 

NYC Library Firsts

A comparison of the very different lives of Pura Belpre and Belle da Costa Greene

Pura Belpre (left) and Belle Da Costa Greene (right)

REFERENCES

American Library Association
https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpre

Benedict, M. and V.C. Murray (2021) The Personal Librarian: a novel. Berkeley: Penguin Random House.

Colorin Colorado
https://www.colorincolorado.org/books-authors/pura-belpr%C3%A9-her-life-and-legacy

Guide to the Pura Belpré Papers, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/collections/pura-belpr%C3%A9-biographical-essay

Guzman, W. (2020) PURA BELPRÉ (1903-1982) Black Past
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/pura-belpre-1903-1982/

Hernandez-Delgado, J. (1992) Pura Theresa Belpre, Storyteller and Pioneer Puerto Rican Librarian. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 62(4); 425-440.

Knapp, F. (2020) She Was a Black Librarian Who Could Equal America’s Most Powerful Man
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/06/03/she-was-a-black-librarian-who-could-equal-americas-most-powerful-man/

Marie Benedict
https://www.authormariebenedict.com/

Nielsen, E. (2021) BELLE DA COSTA GREENE (1883-1950) Black Past
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/belle-da-costa-greene-1883-1950/

Rosenberg, R. (2020) PURA BELPRÉ, THE FIRST PUERTO RICAN LIBRARIAN IN NYC (AND MY LIBRARY HERO) Book Riot  https://bookriot.com/pura-belpre/

The Attic (2019)
https://brucewatson4.medium.com/the-black-woman-who-managed-morgans-millions-f067b31d1024

The Morgan Library & Museum
https://www.themorgan.org/belle-greene

Ulaby, N. (2016) How NYC’s First Puerto Rican Librarian Brought Spanish To The Shelves
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/492957864/how-nycs-first-puerto-rican-librarian-brought-spanish-to-the-shelves

Wellesley, M. (2015) Forged Lives. Lapham’s Quarterly

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/forged-lives

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My youngest cat is named Chill Pill. Mostly she needs one rather than being one.

 

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This Fact Is Overdue #18

500 club

Dr. Lauren Espisito

REFERENCES

500 Women Scientists (2018) Comin Out of the Shadows
https://500womenscientists.org/updates/2018/6/4/coming-out-of-the-shadows

Advocate eds. (2018) 500 Queer Scientists to Make Your Day Smarter

https://www.advocate.com/people/2018/7/19/500-queer-scientists-make-your-day-smarter#media-gallery-media-1

Duncombe, J. (2019) Shining a Spotlight on LGBTQ+ Visibility in STEM.
https://eos.org/articles/shining-a-spotlight-on-lgbtq-visibility-in-stem

Esposito, L. (2018) 500 Queer Scientists: A new campaign for a more inclusive STEM future

https://500queerscientists.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/eb0b9c_71f94bbb8f9741a2bbf579817052aa74.pdf

Esposito, L (2018) We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Have a Place in Science https://medium.com/marchforscience-blog/were-here-we-re-queer-and-we-have-a-place-in-science-78f251d10fff

Gorman, J. (2017) Scorpions Are Ancient, but Some Species Are New to Science. New York Times (Online), New York: New York Times Company.

Madhusoodanan, J. (2018) Visibility matters: A conversation with the co-founder of 500 Queer Scientists,

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/06/visibility-matters-conversation-co-founder-500-queer-scientists

Ronnigen, T. (2019) NOGLSTP Recognizes Chan, Morales, and Freeman as LGBTQ+ Educator, Engineer, and Scientist of the Year for 2019, Esposito is Walt Westman Awardee https://www.noglstp.org/publications-documents/announcements/2019-02-04-noglstp-recognizes-chan-morales-and-freeman-as-lgbtq-educator-engineer-and-scientist-of-the-year-for-2019-esposito-as-walt-westman-award-winne/

Shultz, K. (2016) World's only female scorpion expert on lookout for new species. San Francisco Chronicle.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/World-s-only-female-scorpion-expert-on-lookout-6720569.php

Tabak, L. (2016) Lauren Esposito x Charles Darwin

https://www.laurentabak.com/remodel-project/lauren-esposito-charles-darwin

Untamed Science (2016) Lauren Esposito- Scorpion Biologist
https://untamedscience.com/entomologists/lauren-esposito-entomologist/

Walrath, R. (2018) They’re Here. They’re Queer. They’re Scientists. https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/06/500-queer-scientists-gay-pride/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_Queer_Scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Esposito

Yoder, J. and A. MAttheis. (2016) Queer in STEM: Workplace Experiences Reported in a National Survey of LGBTQA Individuals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Careers JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY  63(1); 1–27.

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