Conference Session 150

Libraries providing integration, innovation and information for women

Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

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

(Las bibliotecas ofrecen integración, innovación e información para la mujer)

• 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)