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WOMEN AND LIBRARIANSHIP
No. 14
June/July, 1999
20-28 AUGUST, 1999 in Bangkok, Thailand
WOMEN LIBRARIANS: THEIR WORK IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
RTWI's program will be held on Tuesday, 24 August, from 12:30 to 15:00.
RTWI Chair Marta Terry has arranged our program for the conference in
Bangkok. Presentations will include:
- Sarla Murgai, of the University of Chattanooga (U.S.A.), who will speak on
"Motivation to Manage: a Comparative Study of the Library and Information
Science Students in the U.S.A., India, Singapore, and Japan.
- Susana Sanchez, from the University of Havana central library (Cuba). She
will present "The Contribution of Women Librarians in the Organizational
Change of University Libraries in Havana".
Everyone at the Conference is most welcome to join us for the program.
There will a business meeting of the RTWI Executive Committee
(EC) on Saturday, 21 August, from 15:00 to 17:20. New officers will be
elected at that meeting. Among topics the EC needs to discuss is RTWI's
new Action Plan for the period 2000-2001.
One potential project is conducting a survey of women actively involved in
IFLA to determine the true nature of their positions, ultimately producing
an international "snapshot" of women in the profession.
The second EC meeting will take place immediately after our program on
Tuesday. The Coordinating Board of Division VI suggests that our Action
Plan for 2000-2001 be prepared and approved by the end of the Bangkok
conference.
The International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement
in Amsterdam has developed an online guide to collections of women's
information in all types of organizations, from government agencies to
grass roots groups to academic libraries in over forty countries. This
resource provides keyword and geographic access to women's information.
Its URL is: http://www.iiav.nl/mapping-the-world/index.html
The finest single library-based resource on women and gender issues, this
website includes numerous bibliographies and core lists of resources as
well as links to literally hundreds of other websites. Its URL is:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/
The University of Illinois Women's Studies/Women in International
Development Library (Urbana-Champaign) maintains a continuing database of
videos related to women and gender issues worldwide and owned by the
Library. It provides subject and geographic access to over one hundred
twenty videos currently. Video titles are annotated. Its URL is:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/wst/wst_vdb.htm
Women in Librarianship, newsletter of the IFLA Round Table on Women's
Issues (RTWI) is published semi-annually. To receive the newsletter or to
change address, etc., send your name, address, job type, fax and voice
telephone numbers, and email address to:
Beth Stafford,
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign,
1408 W. Gregory Drive,
Urbana, IL 61801,
U.S.A.
Please send articles, news items, and comments to the same address. Or
Fax: 217-333-2214;
or
E-mail: bstaff@uiuc.edu
Please print clearly.
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