IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 106 5WRR
Held at: Women's Library
Title: Women's Research and Resources Centre (London)
Date(s): 1965-1981
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 A boxes
Name of creator(s): Women's Research and Resources Centre | London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Women's Research and Resources Centre (WRRC) was established in Jul 1975 as a library, information service and meeting place for people interested in developing Women's Studies, feminist research and the questions surrounding issues of sex equality and discrimination. In 1983 the name was changed to the Feminist Library.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The archive consists of :
* administrative papers
* subject files and correspondence
* resource material used in Women's Research and Resources Centre newsletter
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The archive has been arranged into three groups:
5WRR/A - Administration
5WRR/B - Subject files and correspondence
5WRR/C - Resource material used in the Women's Research and Resources Centre newsletter.
Conditions governing access:
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
The Women's Library catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were donated to the Library in 1983 (5WRR/B and 5WRR/C). The papers of Pat Caplan (7PAC) contained material relating to WRRC (now 5WRR/A) donated to the Library in 2004 which were transferred in Jun 2008.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Women's Library also holds: papers of Pat Caplin (7PAC); Records of the London Feminist History Group (5LFH); and records of the Feminist & Women's Studies Association (5FWS). The Women's Library Printed Collections holds the Women's Research and Resources Centre (WRRC) newsletter, other Women's Liberation periodicals, press cuttings and ephemera relating to WRRC.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: 24/06/2008