<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>I am still looking for volunteers to write biographies on Florida's suffragists.  Quite a few of your members have already participated, but with so many libraries closing temporarily, I thought more people might have time to help.  Here is my original request:</div><div><br></div><div>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">This is a call for volunteers to research and
write 500-word biographical sketches on Florida woman suffragists.<span>  </span></span>



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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Since March 2015 the
online journal and database, </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://chswg.binghamton.edu/WASM-US/wsm.htm__;!!PhOWcWs!mQW7cJ0pk5wgTtRVPlRF2mU2dl8oYHWPHjUlVeT18sw7vAu0Cbw8CuSZtNTLafJxBtxsyg$" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Women and Social Movements in the United States </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(WASM)</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">, has been working on an </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://chswg.binghamton.edu/WASM-US/crowdsourcing/NAWSA_description.html__;!!PhOWcWs!mQW7cJ0pk5wgTtRVPlRF2mU2dl8oYHWPHjUlVeT18sw7vAu0Cbw8CuSZtNTLafKXAdDtbA$" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman
Suffrage Movement in the United States</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">. We have identified more than 3500 grassroots suffrage activists
and have secured sketches for about 2,500 so far.<span>  </span><b>Would
you volunteer to help us complete this project in time for the centennial of
the adoption of the 19^th Amendment in August 2020? You can view a
first installment of the sketches at
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN__;!!PhOWcWs!mQW7cJ0pk5wgTtRVPlRF2mU2dl8oYHWPHjUlVeT18sw7vAu0Cbw8CuSZtNTLafJUGD1bOA$" target="_blank">https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN</a>.<i><span></span></i></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Contributors will
receive author credit as the work is published online. We need new volunteers to
join the project and particularly to work on Florida activists.<span>  </span>We hope that you would like to write 1-2 bio
sketches in the next four-six months and thus contribute to this new reference
tool.<span>  </span><span> </span>If you would like to contribute to the project, please email me<a name="m_-2805045133026571405__GoBack"></a> at <a href="mailto:nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com" target="_blank">nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com</a>. Thanks in advance.</span></span></p>

</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 10:15 PM Nancy Simmons <<a href="mailto:nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com">nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">



















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Hello, <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">I would appreciate your sending this to your list as I have found that members of library-related listservs are often great researchers & writers. <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">

















<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">This is a call for volunteers to research and
write 500-word biographical sketches on Florida woman suffragists.<span>  </span></span>



<span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.55pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Since March 2015 the
online journal and database, </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://chswg.binghamton.edu/WASM-US/wsm.htm__;!!PhOWcWs!mQW7cJ0pk5wgTtRVPlRF2mU2dl8oYHWPHjUlVeT18sw7vAu0Cbw8CuSZtNTLafJxBtxsyg$" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Women and Social Movements in the United States </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(WASM)</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">, has been working on an </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://chswg.binghamton.edu/WASM-US/crowdsourcing/NAWSA_description.html__;!!PhOWcWs!mQW7cJ0pk5wgTtRVPlRF2mU2dl8oYHWPHjUlVeT18sw7vAu0Cbw8CuSZtNTLafKXAdDtbA$" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(96,56,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman
Suffrage Movement in the United States</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">. We have identified more than 3500 grassroots suffrage activists
and have secured sketches for about 2,500 so far.<span>  </span><b>Would
you volunteer to help us complete this project in time for the centennial of
the adoption of the 19^th Amendment in August 2020? You can view a
first installment of the sketches at
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN__;!!PhOWcWs!mQW7cJ0pk5wgTtRVPlRF2mU2dl8oYHWPHjUlVeT18sw7vAu0Cbw8CuSZtNTLafJUGD1bOA$" target="_blank">https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN</a>.<i><span></span></i></b></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Contributors will
receive author credit as the work is published online. We need new volunteers to
join the project and particularly to work on Florida activists.<span>  </span>We hope that you would like to write 1-2 bio
sketches in the next four-six months and thus contribute to this new reference
tool.<span>  </span><span> </span>If you would like to contribute to the project, please email me<a name="m_-2805045133026571405__GoBack"></a> at <a href="mailto:nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com" target="_blank">nancy.a.simmons@gmail.com</a>. Thanks in advance.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Nancy Simmons</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.3pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><span></span></span></p>





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