This site is maintained by the ACRL Women's Studies
Section Collection Development Committee to provide links to helpful
collection development resources for new or other interested women's and
gender studies librarians.
Collection Building and Assessment
The following sites are developed and maintained by the ACRL Women's
Studies Section Collection Development 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.
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.
Checklist to
Evaluate Women's Studies Collections
A guide to elements that are important when evaluating a collection's
strengths and weaknesses.
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.
Promotion of Women's Studies Projects and Publications: Suggested Venues for Annoucements
A list of potential resources for promoting Women's Studies-related publications, projects, and awards. Not all venues are suitable for every project, but these are all places to which authors and organizations have successfully sent out announcements of new resources.
Other WSS Sites
The following sites are developed and maintained by other Women's Studies
Section committees, but might also be useful for Collection Development.
Women's
Studies Core Books
Originally a project of the WSS Collection Development Committee, these are bibliographies intended to help librarians build women's studies collections. The lists include only books currently in print and focus primarily on women in the United States. Each list consists of 20 to 75 titles, and the most important five to ten titles are starred.
Core List of Journals in Women's
Studies
The result of work begun in 1998 by the Women's Studies Section Technical
Services Committee for use in its evaluation of Web-based, full-text
multidisciplinary databases, this core list of journals in women's studies
is currently maintained to assist women's studies librarians and
collection development librarians in building women's studies collections.
Reviewed annually, the list includes only titles currently being published
and suitable for academic libraries.
Electronic Resources Information
and Assessment
Details about availability, scope, format, cost, and function of
numerous women's studies journal databases and other electoronic resources.
Included are relevant links and citations for published reviews.
WSSLINKS
Selective 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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