Posted on May 28, 2008 by Kathy
The latest newsletter is complete and can be found at this link:
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/bysubject/womstudies/newsletters/WS-5-2008.pdf
In This Issue
Databases worth a look
Focus on: RSS!
Request a Course Web site
Digital Commons: Creating a
New acquisitions: latest videos added to the collection
Web focus: Streaming Videos: lots of interesting media freely available
Women’s History Website
Let me know if you find the information helpful or have [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by Kathy
Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace&Justice: Womens Peacemaker Conference
IPJ Women PeaceMakers Conference
Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World
An international working conference to probe and address global acquiescence to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct peacebuilding and deny human security.
September 24 – 26, 2008
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by Kathy
Pro-(Controlling Your) Life | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
In honor of Mother’s Day, Revolution Health has developed this useful interactive map that gives all 50 states a “momScore” designed, according to the site to:
“…compare and evaluate maternal and early childhood health across the United States.”
To determine the scores, researchers evaluated a variety of factors including: access [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by Kathy
Every day, midwives are saving women’s lives. In Afghanistan, a man cannot attend a woman in childbirth and because of the recent years under the Taleban, young women did not receive enough education to ready them to take their place as future midwives. That’s in only one country. Governments everywhere must support educational opportunities for [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by Kathy
Dear wsliblog readers,
Please take a few moments and give me a better understanding of how you use the Web. There is a comment link at the bottom of this post. Just click it and type. Here are the questions:
Do you participate in Second Life? If so, how much time do you spend there?
Do you [...]
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