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Introduction
The following list provides links to academic and research libraries collection development policies for Women's Studies available on the Web. Many types of libraries are represented here, from small liberal arts colleges to large research libraries, including libraries in the United States as well as Canada and other countries.
Libraries approach the articulation of collection development policies in different and instructive ways. The Collection Development and Bibliography Committee has identified components common across many of these policy statements. We have created a template/checklist for consideration by librarians seeking to develop or enhance collection policy statements for Women’s Studies.
Please note: The list was compiled in August 2004, and updated in February, 2008, through extensive, if not exhaustive, searching using Google. Suggestions for additions to this list are encouraged by the WSS Collection Development and Bibliography Committee; please send these to Sue Wortman at swortman@umich.edu.
Women’s & Gender Studies Collection Development Policies
ACRL - WSS Collection Development and Bibliography Committee
February, 2008
Brandeis University
Written by Sherry Keen
Date: 3/01
http://lts.brandeis.edu/about/policies/collection/womensstudies.html
Brown University
Written by: n/a
Date: 6/7/07
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/collections/colldev/subjects/gender.html
California State University Northridge
Written by: Lynn Lampert
Date: 5/03
http://library.csun.edu/llampert/pdcs/women.html
Columbia University
Written by: n/a
Date: 7/13/06
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/colldev/womens.html
Cornell University
Written by: Brenda Marston
Date: April 2004
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/cdwomensstudies.html
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Written by: Linda Bedwell
Date: n/a
http://www.library.dal.ca/killam/collections/womenstd.htm
Dartmouth College
Written by: Ann McHugo
Date: 3/5/99
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cmdc/cdp/womens.html
Kent State University
Written by: n/a
Date: 10/25/2004
http://www.library.kent.edu/page/10842
Kenyon College
Written by: n/a
Date: Created July 25, 2000; updated 1/04/05
http://lbis.kenyon.edu/colldev/deptpol/wmns/
Library of Congress
(WS included in Sociology)
Written by: n/a
Date: 3/27/00
http://www.loc.gov/acq/devpol/sociology.html
Louisiana State University
Written by: n/a
Date: Prepared: 1/15/1998; Updated 3/25/03
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/collserv/colldev/policies/women.html
McMaster University (Ontario, Canada)
Written by: Anne Pottier
Date: 8/30/07
http://library.lib.mcmaster.ca/cat-coll/coll/policies/ws.htm
Michigan State University
Written by: Sharon Ladenson
Date: 4/13/07
http://guides.lib.msu.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1217
New York University
Written by: Jason Phillips
Date: 10/06
http://library.nyu.edu/collections/policies/women.html
Oberlin College
Written by: n/a
Date: 8/00
http://www.oberlin.edu/library/collectiondev/subjects.html
Old Dominion University
Written by: Cynthia Wright Swaine
Date: 11/17/95
http://www.lib.odu.edu/resources/collectionpolicies/womenstucd.htm
Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada)
Written by: n/a
Date: 1/07
http://library.queensu.ca/webcoll/women.htm
Rutgers University
Written by: Lynn Mullins, Susan Beck and Jane Sloan
Date: 9/94
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/staff/collection_dev/policies/womens_studies.shtml
Simon Fraser University
Written by: Carole Goldsmith
Date: 9/18/00
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/collections/policies/womens_studies.htm
State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh
Written by: n/a
Date: n/a
http://web.plattsburgh.edu/library/cdm/policies/ws.php
University at Albany, SUNY
Written by: Deborah LaFonde
Date: 1/2004
http://library.albany.edu/subject/cdp/womens.html
University of Akron
Written by: n/a
Date: 9/30/97
http://www3.uakron.edu/library/gateway/subjects/womens-studies/colpolicy.html
The University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Written by: Linda George
Date: 6/07
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/about/biblio/cdp/cdpwom.htm
The University of British Columbia
Written by: n/a
Date: 7/98
http://www.library.ubc.ca/wmst/collect.html
University of California, Santa Barbara
Written by: Sherri Barnes
Date: 10/2004
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/policies/collections/womens-studies-cd.html
University of California, Santa Barbara - GLBT Collection Development Policy
Written by: Gary Colmenar
Date: 10/2004
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/policies/collections/glbtpolicy.html
University of Colorado at Boulder
Written by: Yem Fong
Date: 2004
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/collectiondevelopment/womens_studies.htm
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Written by: Susan Johnson
Date: 6/01
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/uhmlib/collection/social/women.html
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Written by: Cindy Ingold
Date: 2/1/2007
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/administration/collections/tools/developmentstatement/women.htm
University of Notre Dame
Gender Studies
Written by: Margaret Porter
Date: 2004
http://www.library.nd.edu/colldev/policy/genderstudies.shtml
University of Pennsylvania
Written by: Debra Bucher
Date: 6/3/2004
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/policies/ws.html
University of Tennessee
Written by: Thura Mack
Date: 5/31/02
http://www.lib.utk.edu/~colldev/policy/womens.html
University of Victoria
Written by: Cheryl Lumley
Date: 9/30/98
http://gateway.uvic.ca/dept/col/policies/WoStpol.html
Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison
Written by: n/a
Date: 7/8/2004
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/about/coll-devlmt.html
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Written by: n/a
Date: 2003
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/CollPolicy/2-women.html
Vassar College
Written by: n/a
Date: n/a
http://library.vassar.edu/vcl/cmr/departments/WomensStudies/womensstudies.html
Virginia Tech University
Written by: Paul Metz
Updated: 11/13/07
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/colldev/coll_dev_policies/WOMEN.html
Updated: 2/11/08 Sue Wortman
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