Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Moseley, Eva Steiner.
2. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

Description

1. xxiii, 296 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. Articles cover descriptions of libraries and information services for women, practical application of technology, oral history, archival preservation, access to women's health resources, dissemination of HIV-AIDS information, use of communications media, and much more.

Subject

1. Women's studies libraries > Congresses

Genre/Form

1. Conference papers and proceedings

Contents

1. Part I: Information for and about women. Information for action / Wangari Maathai -- Women against the information borders / Valentina Stoeva -- Women's studies scholarship: its impact on the information world / Sarah M. Pritchard -- Organization of a documentation and information center on the theme of women / Isabel Duque and María Soledad Weinstein -- Breaking boundaries: area studies collects women's studies / Carol L. Mitchell.
2. Part II: Information institutions. Africa. Information for women in development: the role of the information worker / Buhle Mbambo -- Library collections in women's development centers in Africa: the case of Nigeria / Helena R. Hassan -- Women's information services in Senegal / Mariétou Diongue Diop -- Information for change: a South African perspective / Cathy-Mae Karelse and Jennifer Radloff.
3. Asia/Australia. Women, libraries, and information in Bangladesh / Nargis Jafar -- Emerging trends in women's studies information and documentation in India: an overview / Anju Vyas -- Women's libraries in India: problems and solutions / T. S. S. Lakshmi -- The life and times of the Women's Studies Resource Centre / Alana Zerjal-Mellor.
4. Europe. Highlighting women in mainstream information: a Danish center on women and gender / Elizabeth M₀ller Jensen and Jytte Nielsen -- Getting it together: women's information services in the European Union / Marieke Kramer -- From utopia to reality: the Austrian network of women's studies information and documentation centers / Helga Hofmann-Weinberger and Christa Wille -- Feminist/women's archives and libraries in Germany: concepts, equipment, and networking / Helga Dickel -- Overt and covert censorship in building women's studies collection in Ireland / Monica Cullinan and Ailbhe Smyth --
5. Between memory and invention: toward a national women's library in Italy / Annamaria Tagliavini -- The archives acquisitions policy of the IIAV, 1935-1994 / Annette Mevis -- Information services for and about Black and migrant women / Tanhya Mendeszoon -- Creating an information network for women in Russia / Zoya Khotkina -- The Francesca Bonnemaison Public Library / Anna Cabó -- The Women's History Collections: a documentation center integrated into a university library / Helena Wedborn -- Bridging the gap between women's studies and grass-roots feminism / Jenny Collieson and Beth Follini.
6. Latin America. CIDHAL's documentation center: helping to build feminism in Mexico / Rocío Suárez-López and Leopoldina Rendón Pineda -- Getting the word out: disseminating information on, by, and for women in Peru / Mariella Sala.
7. Part III: Information for information workers. Setting up a women's studies library / Jacquelyn Marie -- Interdisciplinarity, women's studies, and library collection development / Hur-Li Lee -- Library instruction and women's studies / Marilyn Grotzky -- Developing and preserving a feminist collection for posterity / Anna Greening and Veronica Davis Perkins --
8. Evaluation of sources in women's history / Sara Janner -- The Dutch Women's Thesaurus: the "-W" option / Marieke Kramer -- The Lilith information network : Italian feminism in an international context / Luciana Tufani -- Electronic graffiti or scholar's tool?: a critical evaluation of selected women's lists on Internet / Suzanne Hildenbrand -- Global organizing: technology and the goals of women's organizations / Susan C. Mooney.
9. Part IV: Outside library walls. Information for rural women via Radio Pakistan / Nigal Ahmad and Uzmad Khan -- Tribal women of Montenegro / Zorka Milich -- Oral history with women geographers / Lynda R. Smith-Bugge -- Data collection on women in Ukraine / Svetlana V. Kupryashkina --
10. Regional information support on women's health / Rita Raj-Hashim -- The dissemination of HIV-AIDS information to women / Maria Salet Ferreira Novellino -- The vital flow: information and health networking in Latin America and the Caribbean / Kathleen Vickery -- Women, information, and human rights / Aida Haddad -- Grass-roots organizing and institution building: The Israel Women's Network / Alice Shalvi -- Women, international information policy, and human rights / Arvonne Fraser.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.