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This site is developed and maintained by the Instruction Committee of the
Women's
Studies Section
of the Association
of College and Research Libraries.
Committee Charge
| | Database Instruction Guides
Women's Studies and Information Literacy
| | Committee Members
The Instruction Committee works to enhance the
ability of academic and research librarians to serve effectively students,
faculty, and other users researching Women's Studies and related
disciplines.
These Guides were created and are maintained by members of the
Women's Studies Section Instruction Committee. They were developed in
order to assist librarians in teaching students and faculty how to more
effectively and efficiently use women's studies databases. The Committee
identified nine core databases that contain content primarily related to
women, gender, sexuality, and/or feminist studies. The guides are in .PDF
format so that librarians can easily print them as class handouts and will
be updated as needed. The following is a list of the available Database
Instruction Guides:
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Doing Research: Examples of Research and Resource
Guides
Many libraries offer subject guides for finding resources in women's studies, often divided into categories by sub-topic or format. Here are some examples that offer search strategies and other techniques:
Tutorials and Exercises
- Evaluating Web Search Results, Finding Articles from Women's Publications within Lexis-Nexis, and Using a Metasite, by Phyllis Holman Weisbard and Pamela O'Donnell, University of Wisconsin System.
The tutorials use examples related to international women's issues.
- Primary Source Document Analysis Worksheet, adapted by Laura Micham, Director,
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Courses
Articles
- Helping Re-Entry Women Develop Library Technical Skills and Research
Strategies, by Linda Marie Golian and Rita M. Pellen, Feminist Collections 17, no. 2 (1996): 44+ (online in Contemporary Women's Issues and GenderWatch)
- Information Literacy Grant Proposal: Revising the Women's Studies Curriculum, by Wendy Kozol, Women's Studies Director; Frances Hasso, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies; and Jessica Grim, Reference Librarian, Denison University
- Library Skill Development in a Women's Studies Course, by Barbara Weeg. Feminist Collections 18, no. 3 (Spring 1997): 11+ (online in Contemporary Women's Issues and GenderWatch)
- Stronger Students, Better Research:
Information Literacy in the Women’s Studies Classroom, by Carroll Wetsel Wilkinson, Feminist Collections 25, no. 4 (Summer 2004)
- Teaching Learning: Student Library Research in the Context of Authentic Assessment, by Gwyn Kirk and Nancy Knipe, Feminist Teacher 8, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 24+ (online in GenderWatch). Example is in a women's studies class.
- Using Inquiry Methods to Foster Information Literacy Partnerships, by Nancy Dennis, Reference Services Review 29, no. 2 (2001): 122+ (online in Proquest Research Library). Partnership example is with women's studies.
Additional Resources
- NWSA Poster 2009:
Clarke, K. L. & Tucker, C. (2009). Infused Instruction: Women’s Studies Librarians are the main ingredient to improve the research process in Women’s Studies.
National Women's Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, GA.
Maintained by: Kimberly Clarke, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
URL: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~clark078/wss_instruction/index.html
Last updated: January 16, 2010
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