Glasgow Women’s Library : Useful Links

Useful Links

We’ve put together a list of links to women’s organisations other websites of interest to women, including organisations we’ve collaborated with. You can also see links we’ve collected on delicious, the social bookmarking website.

Some of the links are repeated, because they fall under more than one category.

Libraries & Archives
- Aletta, Amsterdam Aletta (formerly the IIAV) is the home of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement. By collecting and making our heritage available, Aletta aims to inspire, to increase knowledge and to promote research on the position of women.
- Bildwechsel Hamburg-based sister organisation supporting and collecting work by women artists.
- Know How Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services
- Scottish Poetry Library The place for poetry in Scotland, with an emphasis is on contemporary poetry written in Scotland, in Scots, Gaelic and English.
- The Mitchell Library The Mitchell Library is the hub of Glasgow’s citywide information service
- Virtual Mitchell Collection Photographs and other images held in the Archives and Special Collections of the Mitchell Library
- Women’s Library, London “Celebrating and recording women’s lives”
- Women’s Art Library/Make The Women’s Art Library was established in order to enhance public knowledge of the practice, impact and achievement of women in visual culture and contains extensive documentation of women’s art practice.

Feminism
- Aletta, Amsterdam Aletta (formerly the IIAV) is the home of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement. By collecting and making our heritage available, Aletta aims to inspire, to increase knowledge and to promote research on the position of women.
- Know How Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services
- Raw Nerve Books Small feminist press publishing controversial, under-represented and experimental work on paper and online.
- The F Word Contemporary UK Feminism (blog)
- Women’s Library, London “Celebrating and recording women’s lives”

Equality
- Aletta, Amsterdam Aletta (formerly the IIAV) is the home of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement. By collecting and making our heritage available, Aletta aims to inspire, to increase knowledge and to promote research on the position of women.
- Engender Engender campaigns to ensure that women and their concerns have greater visibility and equal representation at all levels of Scottish society.
- Equality and Human Rights Commission The commission is working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society.
- Fawcett Fawcett is the UK’s leading campaign for equality between women and men.
- Know How Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services
- Scottish Women’s Convention The SWC provides opportunities for women to engage in focused debate about specific issues of concern and to influence policy decisions in Scotland.
- Unicef Millenium Development Goals Target by 2015: Eliminate gender disparity at all levels of education by 2015 and empower women.
- Women and the Vote 2008 marks 90 years since the Representation of the People Act finally gave some women the right to vote.

Learning
- Learndirect Scotland Find learning opportunities in your area. Free helpline: 0808 100 9000
- OpenLearn Scotland Free online learning modules at introductory level including law, social care, literature, history and the environment, with national discussion forums. Part of the Open University

Arts
- Bildwechsel Hamburg-based sister organisation supporting and collecting work by women artists.
- Elles @ Centre Pompidou Women artists in the collections of the Pompidou Centre, Paris
- Women’s Art Library/Make The Women’s Art Library was established in order to enhance public knowledge of the practice, impact and achievement of women in visual culture and contains extensive documentation of women’s art practice.

History
- Aletta, Amsterdam Aletta (formerly the IIAV) is the home of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement. By collecting and making our heritage available, Aletta aims to inspire, to increase knowledge and to promote research on the position of women.
- Women and the Vote 2008 marks 90 years since the Representation of the People Act finally gave some women the right to vote.
- Women’s Library, London “Celebrating and recording women’s lives”

Glasgow
- The Mitchell Library The Mitchell Library is the hub of Glasgow’s citywide information service
- Virtual Mitchell Collection Photographs and other images held in the Archives and Special Collections of the Mitchell Library

Scotland
- Engender Engender campaigns to ensure that women and their concerns have greater visibility and equal representation at all levels of Scottish society.
- Learndirect Scotland Find learning opportunities in your area. Free helpline: 0808 100 9000
- OpenLearn Scotland Free online learning modules at introductory level including law, social care, literature, history and the environment, with national discussion forums. Part of the Open University
- Scottish Poetry Library The place for poetry in Scotland, with an emphasis is on contemporary poetry written in Scotland, in Scots, Gaelic and English.
- Scottish Women’s Convention The SWC provides opportunities for women to engage in focused debate about specific issues of concern and to influence policy decisions in Scotland.
- Two Ravens Press An independent publisher of cutting-edge contemporary literature, based in the Highlands.

International
- Aletta, Amsterdam Aletta (formerly the IIAV) is the home of the International Archives for the Women’s Movement. By collecting and making our heritage available, Aletta aims to inspire, to increase knowledge and to promote research on the position of women.
- Bildwechsel Hamburg-based sister organisation supporting and collecting work by women artists.
- Elles @ Centre Pompidou Women artists in the collections of the Pompidou Centre, Paris
- Know How Mapping the World of Women’s Information Services
- Unicef Millenium Development Goals Target by 2015: Eliminate gender disparity at all levels of education by 2015 and empower women.

Publishers
- Gwasg Honno Press Honno is an independent co-operative press run by women and committed to bringing you the best in Welsh women’s writing.
- Raw Nerve Books Small feminist press publishing controversial, under-represented and experimental work on paper and online.
- Two Ravens Press An independent publisher of cutting-edge contemporary literature, based in the Highlands.

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- The Fairtrade Foundation Fairtrade seeks to transform trading structures and practices in favour of the poor and disadvantaged.

Glasgow Women’s Library

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