10 August 2011

Libraries providing integration, innovation and information for women

Conference Session 150:

Libraries providing integration, innovation and information for women
Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

16 August 2011 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: Exhibition Hall A

• Realising the goal of woman empowerment through access to information: Basanti Devi College as a case study
  Translations: [Français]
  SABUJ KUMAR CHAUDHURI (Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, India)
• What
  role can public libraries play in providing information to women
  caregivers and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Namibia?
  CHIKU MNUBI-MCHOMBU (Information Studies Department, University of
  Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia) and KINGO JOTHAM MCHOMBU (Faculty of
  Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Namibia, Windhoek,
  Namibia)
• Norwegian libraries and special services for immigrant women
  ARNE GUNDERSEN (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway)
• Servicio de información de supervivencia para mujeres migrantes en la Casa del migrante en Ciudad Guatemala
  NORA DOMÍNGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ (Information Centre, Instituto
  Centroamericano de Estudios Sociales y Desarrollo, Guatemala, Guatemala)
• Role of libraries and information in the empowerment of women prisoners in Uganda
  Translations: [Français]
  GLORIAS ASSIIMWE (African Prisons Project Libraries, Kampala, Uganda)
  and ALISON A. KINENGYERE (Albert Cook Library, College of Health
  Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)

Women, Information and Libraries, Women’s issues, Puerto Rico