Workshop co-ordinator: Hope Olson
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.

Concerns of classification and subject indexing typically revolve around the problems of standard systems for the needs of women in general or for specialised collections. These problems are usually addressed in one of two ways: to adapt the standard system, or to create a new system. The major goal of this workshop will be to explore when these options are appropriate and how they can be achieved. With this in mind, the workshop will address the following questions:

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Presenters include:
Katarina Blomqvist - KVINFO (Denmark);
Marianne Boere - European Women's Thesaurus Project, IIAV (the Netherlands);
Nandita Ghandi - Akshara (India);
Vanessa Griffen - Asian and Pacific Development Centre (Malaysia);
Sheridan Harvey - Library of Congress (USA);
Anja Jansma - Anna Blaman Huis (the Netherlands);
Dennis Fred Obbo - Ministry of Gender and Community Development (Uganda);
and Hope Olson - School of Library & Information Studies, University of Alberta (Canada).
Participants from South Africa, Italy and the United States have also been invited to make presentations.

Workshop co-ordinator: Evelien Rijsbosch
IIAV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

A lot of women's information is already available on the Internet, in electronic lists and World Wide Web. But many women face the problem of locating this information. This workshop is about making women's information on the Internet accessible, and the role of women's information services in locating and indexing the information for their users. Using examples and experiences we will discuss the management of information on Internet, the usefulness of index sites and search machines, the problems and traps in building indexes. This will be a hands-on workshop.

Presenters include:
Meg Harris - Contemporary Women's Issues Database (USA);
Marie Helene Mottin-Sylla - Synergy Gender and Development, Environment and Development of the Third World (ENDA-SYNFEV) and APC-Africa-Women (Senegal);
and Lut Verstappen - Documentatiecentrum Amazone (Belgium).

Workshop co-ordinator: Jacquelyn Marie
McHenry Library, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA

The presenters will take 15 to 20 minutes to show their CD-Roms and Web sites. Issues which will be considered include:

Presenters include: Ximena Charnes - ISIS International-Santiago (Chile);
Irene Chaverri Polini and Ana Lucia Moreno - GEMA (Costa Rica);
Christa Wille - Ariadne, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austria);
Helga Dickel and Carolina Brauckmann - die media/she media (Germany);
Beth Stafford - Women's Studies/Women in International Development Library, University of Illinois (USA);
and Jennifer Radloff - African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town (South Africa).

Workshop co-ordinator: Anju Vyas
Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi , India

The tremendous expansion in research and action for women's development over the last two decades has resulted in an information explosion. The women's movement and those concerned with women's issues have long recognised information as a means of empowerment for women.

Women's information is different from any other subject area. It is multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, and inter-disciplinary. Its physical formats are as diverse as its user community. An information system must cater to the information needs of a broad range of users - ranging from those who can influence policy changes, legislation, and the behaviour of opinion builders and decision makers at various levels, to those likely to be most affected by such changes, viz., women at various levels of society, but most of all at the grass-roots level.

In this context of providing effective information services to its customer community, the workshop aims :