The UW System Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian (GWSL) is one of the premier resources for support of gender, women’s studies, and LGBTQ+ scholarship and librarianship. The GWSL provides bibliographic and curriculum support, inter-institutional cooperation, information sharing, and advocacy related to the fields of women’s, gender, and LGBTQ+ studies and to gender-focused scholars
hip in the traditional disciplines. We value and affirm the role that libraries and other information services play in the empowerment of people in our community and beyond. Through local, national, and international partnerships, we aim to provide relevant resources, skills, and support to those researching and working to improve the lives of women and girls throughout the world. We produce an online collection of tables of contents for journals and magazines called FEMINIST PERIODICALS: A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS and two open-access databases for research: DOROTHY (scholarly books) and SYLVIA (films). We also offer reference assistance, professional presentations, and research consultation. Our extensive in-house collection of biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, and other reference books on women and gender is available for perusing and research by students, faculty, and the public.
