The Annual Report has not been located. The information below is from issues of the ACRL/NEC News.

 

 

University of Massachusetts Women's Studies and Its Library Connection, November 12, 1992.

A panel discussion including authors, faculty members and librarians from UMass/Amherst, examining longstanding collaboration between the library and the women's studies program.

 

 

Presenting Women's Studies: Personal Opinion vs. Professional Obligations, February 19, 1993.

Program held at Northeastern University.

 

Costa Rica: Women's Studies, Women's Libraries, and a Women's Conference, April 30, 1993.

ACRL/NEC Women's Studies Interest Group met at Boston College, O'Neill Library. Seventeen librarians were in attendance. Susan Griffith and Wendy Thomas, both WSIG members, presented a slide show entitled "Costa Rica: Women's Studies, Women's Libraries, & a Women's Conference," which chronicled their trip to attend the 5th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, held in San Jose in February 1993.

 

Susan Griffith and Wendy Thomas narrated a slide show about the 5th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Held every three years, these conferences bring together academics and activists from around the world. The 1993 Congress was held in February in San Jose, Costa Rica. Over 1600 women from around the world attended. Papers were presented on a variety of topics, including women's libraries and documentation centers, AIDS, women's studies in Europe, status of women in Central America, prostitution, health, sexuality, etc.

 

Highlights of Susan and Wendy's experience at the Congress included meeting women's studies librarians from Venezuela, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark, India and Costa Rica; going on a filed trip to visit a new women's library at the Universidad Nacional; and participating in a women's rights march and rally.

 

Susan and Wendy brought in various brochures and information about Costa Rican women's organizations, programs, and libraries. Donations of women's studies books and periodicals are needed; contact Wendy for more information if you have material you want to send. - Alexa Mayo, WSIG co-chair. (ACRL/NEC News no. 69, Summer 1993)

 

 

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