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assistants. <strong>Radcliffe</strong> hired <strong>for</strong>ty-one Harvard undergraduates to work as<br />
research partners with individual fellows. The undergraduates thereby gained<br />
insight into a field that interests them, and the fellows acquired research<br />
help. The final theme was unanimous acclaim <strong>for</strong> the dedication, commitment,<br />
and intellectual leadership provided by Judith Vichniac, the director of<br />
the <strong>Radcliffe</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> Fellowship Program.<br />
The Schlesinger Library emerged from a three-year period of transition . . . with renewed<br />
energy and focus on its core mission of documenting American women of the past and the<br />
present <strong>for</strong> the future.<br />
schlesinger library<br />
The Schlesinger Library emerged from a three-year period of transition—<br />
which involved a complete renovation of the building, a reorganization of<br />
the staff, and a turnover in executive directors—with renewed energy and<br />
focus on its core mission of documenting American women of the past and<br />
the present <strong>for</strong> the future. The research community enthusiastically<br />
returned to the beautiful new reading room, and the number of in-person<br />
reference queries rose by 26 percent compared with the same period<br />
last year.<br />
The book department saw an increase of 97 percent in the number of<br />
titles catalogued, adding more than three thousand titles this year. The manuscript<br />
division acquired more than 754 linear feet of material in 235 collections,<br />
one hundred collections more than last year. These include some very<br />
exciting additions that add significantly to the library’s documentation of<br />
women’s activism in feminism, health, and politics. The papers acquired this<br />
year range from those of Patricia Ireland, <strong>for</strong>mer president of the National<br />
Organization <strong>for</strong> Women; to those of Kay Dickersin, epidemiologist and advocate<br />
<strong>for</strong> breast cancer survivors; to those of Kip Tiernan, activist <strong>for</strong> Boston’s<br />
homeless women. This year’s purchases also included three nineteenthcentury<br />
daguerreotypes and one tintype of mothers breastfeeding, a rare and<br />
new area of collecting <strong>for</strong> the library.<br />
Behind the scenes, real progress was made in addressing the backlog<br />
of materials to be processed. The manuscript unit processed twelve collec-<br />
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