Description of my company: a women's resource center

I am the director of a not for profit organization that provides resource referrals for women in the community.

The resource center partners with other organizations, institutions, and businesses in the community to increase awareness of women's issues and to make sure that women are provided with information that pertains to them - including health and legal concerns, cultural events, activism opportunities or other social services. The resource center seeks to aggregate these information sources and provide an affirming learning environment.

As part of our services, the resource center provides both a reference and circulating library and acts as an informal repository for information provided or published by our community partners.

Our services are available to and intended for women of all ages, incomes and ethnicities. However, due to our proximity to a university campus and our intentional community outreach events, our services are primarily utilized by college age women, low-income women, and minority women.

We have two full-time staff positions: an office administrator and library manager, and a community event coordinator. We also employ 3-5 student volunteers who generally work on a part time basis.

The basics.

Greetings INLS 585 classmates. By way of introduction let me tell you a few things about myself.

I'm in the MLS program in Chapel Hill, hoping to get that "real" job in an academic library one day. In the meantime, I work as an editor for a history publishing company. My MA in modern European history from the University of Colorado where I studied mainly Soviet and women's history should come in handy in the aforementioned "real" job.

Looking forward to our future discussions/ramblings/musings on all things library.

S.