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President's Annual Report 1999-2000

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ACRL/NEC 2000 Spring Conference Report
   Breakout Sessions

Women's Studies Spring 2000
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New Co-Chairs for the Preservation SIG

ITIG Launches Technology Column

Massachusetts Special Collections Directory

Continuing Education Committee
Welcoming New Members

ACRL/NEC Listserv - Special Thanks

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NEBIC & Simmons College Present
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Business Librarians' Interest Group Announces
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ACRL New England Chapter News Online
Spring 2000, No. 90





ACRL/NEC Women's Studies Spring 2000 Program

Chris Smith
Boston University

Sarah Mitchell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Center for Research on Women and the Stone Center for Developmental
Services and Studies located at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, were the
location and focus of the Women's Studies Interest Group's Spring 2000
program held Friday, May 5.

Pamela Baker Webber, Director of Pre-Award Research Grants, gave a general
introduction and overview of the Center for Research on Women and the
Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies and how these two
groups came together in 1995 and partnered under a single core
administrative staff to form the Wellesley Centers for Women. She
explained that the Center for Research on Women was established over twenty
years ago and is home to an interdisciplinary community of scholars who are
engaged in social science research and action projects that include the
study of women, men, and children's lives in a changing world. The work
being done at the Center has been instrumental in shaping public policy and
has contributed to a host of institutional and social changes. Current
projects include Learning Circles; the National S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive
Curriculum: Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity; Shaping a Better World:
Global Issues, Gender Issues; and Raising Confident and Competent Girls.

The Stone Center for Development Services and Studies was founded in 1981
as a result of a generous bequest given by Grace W. and Robert S. Stone. The Center
is distinguished by its attention to the experience of women, children and
families across culturally diverse populations. The Center is particularly concerned
with psychological well-being and provides preventative intervention programs.
The Women's Review of Books is also published at the Center.

The second speaker, Linda Hartling, Associate Director, Jean Baker
Miller Training Institute, talked about feminist psychiatrist, Dr. Jean
Baker Miller, whose book Toward a New Psychology of Women helped give
voice to the relational/cultural theory which asserts that growth fostering
relationships are central to a person's psychological well-being and the
absence of these relationships contributes to psychological problems. Dr.
Miller, along with Janet Surrey, Judy Jordan, and Irene Stiver, founded the
Training Institute in order to actively promote the Relational/Cultural Model. The
Institute builds on this model through ongoing workshops, research projects, and
programs. Each year, the Institute hosts Summer and Fall Training Institutes that
offer an opportunity for intensive study of the Relational/Cultural approach and its applications. For example, this summer's Advanced Institute will be looking at
the many meanings of relational/cultural resilience. The Institute also furthers its
mission through working papers and books written by faculty of the Jean Baker
Miller Institute. All publications are made available through the Stone Center's
Publications Office.

After these informative presentations, the group met with two researchers,
Vern Marx and Michelle Porche who talked to us about their current research
projects and answered questions. This was an unusual opportunity and all agreed it was
one of the high points of the afternoon. Thanks to Pamela Baker Webber for making
this such a successful and inspiring Spring program.

The Women's Studies Interest Group welcomes ideas on future programming
from ACRL/NEC members. If you have ideas for programs or have women's
studies-related resources on your campus or in your community that may be
of interest to WSIG members, please contact the co-chairs: Chris Smith
(jchris@bu.edu) or Sarah Mitchell (smitchel@mit.edu).