This site, maintained by the ACRL Women's Studies
Section Collection Development and Bibliography Committee, provides links to helpful collection development resources for women's and gender studies librarians.
Collection Building and Assessment
The following sites are developed and/or maintained by the ACRL Women's Studies Section Collection Development and Bibliography Committee.
Award Winning
and Notable Titles
A collection of links to Web sites that describe award winning books
in women's studies or provide lists of titles that are in other ways
deemed notable.
Checklist to Evaluate Women's Studies Collections
A guide to elements that are important when evaluating a collection's strengths and weaknesses.
Collection
Development in Women's Studies: A Bibliography
A brief bibliography of materials relating to issues of women's studies
collection development. Topics include collection assessment, the history
of women's studies serials, women's studies in the Library of Congress
classification, and information access. Most works focus on women's
studies librarianship within the United States.
Collection Development Policies
A collection of links to academic and research libraries collection development policies for
Women's Studies available on the Web.
Core List of Journals in Women's Studies
Maintained by the ACRL Women's Studies Section’s Collection Development and Bibliography Committee, this annotated list includes selected titles which "...provide a foundation for study and research from a feminist perspective." The list provides a brief description of each journal, as well as bibliographic and indexing information. Titles are suitable for academic library collections.
Film & Video
Resources
Offers resources to aid in the purchase and evaluation of films and
videos.
Keeping Current
with Women's Studies Scholarship
Presents resources useful for tracking topics women's studies scholars
are discussing, recent publications, and current events in the field,
including conferences.
Review
Sources
Links to important sources for reviews (some full-text and some only
excerpts) of women's studies books, with links to a few general-purpose
book review Web sites.
Women's
Studies Publishers
These lists are primarily women's studies small presses and include
links to scholarly presses that publish in this area. They are
arranged alphabetically by publisher name and provide addresses, phone
numbers, and URLs for Web sites when available.
Other WSS Sites
The following sites, developed and maintained by other Women's Studies Section committees, are also useful for collection development.
Women's
Studies Core Books
Developed and maintained by members of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Women's Studies Section, this Web resource is a database of core book titles covering more than forty subject areas (such as, among others, feminist theory, lesbian studies, and transnational feminism). This resource is updated annually.
Electronic Resources Information
and Assessment
Provides details about availability, scope, format, cost, and function of numerous women's studies journal databases and other electronic resources. Includes relevant links and citations for published reviews.
WSSLINKS
Provides selected links to women's studies Web pages in a variety of subject areas.
About this Page
Sections of this Web site were created and are maintained by members
of the Collection Development Committee of the Women's Studies Section
of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Standard details that should appear at the bottom of each page include:
- Author's name
- Author's institutional affiliation
- Author's e-mail address
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Please send comments & questions to:
Sharon Ladenson
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