ONLINE READING

This is another busy week for Bullis volunteers. We're setting goals and objectives for the year, and we're thinking about how we can more effectively reach out to the community and beyond.  Therefore, we are switching our focus for a while from the Bullis extended families of a century or more ago to families currently in our local- and world-wide community, searching for ways to encourage more utilization of the Bullis books.

Word on the streets is that 50% of the US population will use a smartphone by this time next year. That, combined with increased reading online via other wireless reading devices and desktop computers, suggests that we need to reach out more to that segment of our population.

Therefore...we are listing a few of the books in this collection that are available online for reading, with the idea that if someone experiences a book through that medium, they may want to see the real thing.

Here's this week's list. We'll list more next week. And please remember if you want to see the actual book, stop by the Bullis Room.

The Cruise of the Snark, Jack London

Allan Quartermain, Sir H. Rider Haggard,

The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, 1908

Madam Bovary, Flaubert Gustave

Women of the War: Heroism and self sacrifice, Frank Moore, 1866

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

When we Bullis volunteers think of the words "women" and "history," our first thoughts are of our own Nettie Bullis. In the coming weeks, you will see more of her outstanding history related on this blog.

However, we cannot let the month of March go out (whether like a lion or lamb) without calling attention to Women's History Month and some of the books in the collection about women who changed the course of history in both small and large ways. Here is a partial list. We invite you to stop by and take a look at some or all of them.

WOMEN OF THE WAR, THEIR HEROISM AND SELF-SACRIFICE, by Frank Moore
(illustrated with steel engravings, Hartford, Conn., 1866

MOSLEM WOMEN, by A. E. and S. M. Zwemer, (illustrated)
Brattleboro, Vermont, 1926

FAMOUS AUTHORS (WOMEN), by E. F. Harkins, Boston, 1906

THE WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, VOL. 2, by Elizabeth Ellet,
New York, 1849

WESTERN WOMEN AND EASTERN LANDS, by Helen Montgomery, (illustrated)
Norwood, Massachusetts, 1910

PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED WOMEN, by C. A. Sainte-Beuve, Boston, 1868