GB 106 PC/01 - The Women's Library Printed Collections

Zona de identificação

Código de referência

GB 106 PC/01

Título

The Women's Library Printed Collections

Data(s)

  • 1592-[2008] (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Dimensão e suporte

60,000 + items

Zona do contexto

Nome do produtor

História biográfica

Entidade detentora

História do arquivo

GB 106 PC/01 1592-[2008] Collection (fonds) 60,000 + items The Women's Library

The Library has traditionally had a small acquisitions budget for Printed Collections - significant parts of the collections have been donated by members and friends of the Library. Donations have included single items or entire libraries that relate to women.

The Women's Library Printed Collections comprise:

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

The Library has over 60,000 books and pamphlets. In addition to scholarly works on women's history, there are biographies, popular works, government publications, and some works of literature. It also contains several special collections of published materials: The Cavendish-Bentinck Collection contains primarily pre-1850 items, such as conduct books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and first editions of works by Wollstonecraft, Woolf, and the Brontes. The Josephine Butler Society Library features works on subjects including prostitution, slavery, trafficking of women, and attitudes to sexuality. The Sadd Brown Library comprises books and periodicals by and about women in the various Commonwealth countries.

PERIODICALS AND ZINES

Over 2,500 titles are held, some in single issues, but many in complete or representative runs. Titles range from popular magazines (Vogue, Cosmopolitan), to academic quarterlies (Gender and History, Feminist Review), special interest publications (One Parent Families, Executive Black Woman, National Association of Women Pharmacists), and older titles such as the English Woman's Journal and Votes for Women. The zine collection, dating from 2002, includes zines which reflect women's lives in the UK today.

EPHEMERA/PRESS CUTTINGS

The ephemera collection consists of thousands of mostly contemporary leaflets, flyers, handbills, etc. on topics of interest to women. A primarily retrospective collection of press cuttings is available; it is particularly useful for biographical material and obituaries on women.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

A range of electronic resources are available for consultation at The Women's Library to complement the printed, archive and museum collections. These cover all aspects of women's lives and include periodical indexes and statistical data, as well as full text databases.

Open

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Welsh

The Printed Collections can be consulted via an online catalogue available at www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/catalogue. Additional guides in the form of Source Notes are available online.

Updated Collection Description by Teresa Doherty, based on web resources Jan 2009. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Feb 2009. Communications media Publications Organizations Associations Womens organizations Sex distribution Sex Women Internal politics Electoral systems Womens suffrage Information sciences Womens liberation movement Liberation movements Political movements Women's Library

Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência

The Library has traditionally had a small acquisitions budget for Printed Collections - significant parts of the collections have been donated by members and friends of the Library. Donations have included single items or entire libraries that relate to women.

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

The Women's Library Printed Collections comprise:

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

The Library has over 60,000 books and pamphlets. In addition to scholarly works on women's history, there are biographies, popular works, government publications, and some works of literature. It also contains several special collections of published materials: The Cavendish-Bentinck Collection contains primarily pre-1850 items, such as conduct books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and first editions of works by Wollstonecraft, Woolf, and the Brontes. The Josephine Butler Society Library features works on subjects including prostitution, slavery, trafficking of women, and attitudes to sexuality. The Sadd Brown Library comprises books and periodicals by and about women in the various Commonwealth countries.

PERIODICALS AND ZINES

Over 2,500 titles are held, some in single issues, but many in complete or representative runs. Titles range from popular magazines (Vogue, Cosmopolitan), to academic quarterlies (Gender and History, Feminist Review), special interest publications (One Parent Families, Executive Black Woman, National Association of Women Pharmacists), and older titles such as the English Woman's Journal and Votes for Women. The zine collection, dating from 2002, includes zines which reflect women's lives in the UK today.

EPHEMERA/PRESS CUTTINGS

The ephemera collection consists of thousands of mostly contemporary leaflets, flyers, handbills, etc. on topics of interest to women. A primarily retrospective collection of press cuttings is available; it is particularly useful for biographical material and obituaries on women.

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

A range of electronic resources are available for consultation at The Women's Library to complement the printed, archive and museum collections. These cover all aspects of women's lives and include periodical indexes and statistical data, as well as full text databases.

Avaliação, seleção e eliminação

Incorporações

Sistema de arranjo

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Condições de acesso

Open

Condiçoes de reprodução

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Idioma do material

  • inglês

Sistema de escrita do material

  • latim

Notas ao idioma e script

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Welsh

Características físicas e requisitos técnicos

Instrumentos de descrição

The Printed Collections can be consulted via an online catalogue available at www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/catalogue. Additional guides in the form of Source Notes are available online.

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Existência e localização de cópias

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Identificador da instituição

Women's Library

Regras ou convenções utilizadas

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Estatuto

Nível de detalhe

Datas de criação, revisão, eliminação

Línguas e escritas

  • inglês

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