Cherniavska Lina

US Library Institutions as Centers for Women’s and Gender Studies and Gender Education

Abstract: This article discusses US universities and national libraries more than 30 years' experience in work as centers for the initiation and education of citizens, as well as leading research centers for women and gender studies in American society. Attention is focused on the relevance of informing the population as a whole about the principles of gender equality, quality information and research on this issue. The main attention is paid to the experience of library institutions systematic work in search for new forms of cooperation between students and teachers, scientists involved in research in the field of female and gender studies. It is noted that thanks to the active cooperation between library workers and library resources users in the field of women and women and gender studies, libraries have become effective participants in the education system and scientific work in general. The principles of building library information databases for the study of women and the gender issue, as well as the effective navigation systems created by librarians in extensive library collections, are examined. This task is very urgent, because often the information researchers require is scattered across all library collections. Great progress has been noted in the field of library and information support for education and science, in particular, the creation of web portals and library sites, the formation of a full-fledged industry information resource, electronic catalogs, full-text databases, electronic gender libraries, as well as cooperation between different libraries. Considering the role of American libraries in organizing women's and gender studies, we can conclude that they not only play the role of leading information and document centers, training centers, but they themselves become significant research institutions. Collections of some libraries are parts of national and world heritage.

Keywords: gender, library institutions, libraries information and communication activities, library information resources, scientific libraries, library databases, information society.

  Full-text PDF    https://doi.org/10.15407/np.60.096     Citation

• Cherniavska Lina (V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Ukraine, Kyiv, linaa2014@ukr.net) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7703-540X

Cite:
Cherniavska Lina (2020). US Library Institutions as Centers for Women’s and Gender Studies and Gender Education. Academic Papers of The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, (60) 96-112. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.60.096

References:

1. Watch the global broadcast "Nations United". United Nations [in English].
2. Horoshko, O. I. (2010). Henderni aspekty internet-komunikatsii [Gender aspects of Internet communications]. Abstract of doctoral dissertation. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Kharkiv [in Ukrainian].
3. Polevik, S. (2016). Gendernye aspekty primeneniia informatcionnykh tekhnologii v biblioteke [Gender aspects of the use of information technology in the library]. International Scientific Journal, 2, 28–31 [in Russian].
4. ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section Blog. American Library Association [in English].
5. The site of the Library of Congress [in English].
6. The site of the Library of Congress: Collection overview Women's studies [in English].
7. The site of the University Libraries of University at Albany [in English].
8. Searing, S. (1985). Introduction to Library Research in Women's Studies. New York: Routledge [in English].
9. The site of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries [in English].
10. The site of the Kent State University Libraries [in English].
11. The site of the University of Michigan Library [in English].
12. The site of the Berkeley University of California Library [in English].
13. The site of the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance [in English].
14. Cherniavska, L. (2018). Biblioteka v konteksti hendernykh doslidzhen' yak informatsijnoi modeli transformatsii hendernykh identychnostei [Library in the context of gender relations as information models of transformation of gender identities]. Naukovi pratsi Natsionalnoi biblioteky Ukrainy imeni V. I. Vernadskoho – Transactions of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, 50, 104–118 [in Ukrainian]. doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.50.104