Workshop co-ordinator: Chat Garcia Ramilo
ISIS International-Manila, Quezon City, Philippines

Participants in this workshop will present different models for information dissemination relevant to rural, immigrant and minority communities through their experiences and case studies. The presenters will also discuss how they develop their resource collection appropriate to their constituents.

Presenters include:
Abha Bhaiya - Jagori (India);
Alana Zerjal-Mellor (Australia),
Helena Asamoah-Hassan - University of Science and Technology Library (Ghana);
Bandith Prathoumvanh and Outhaki Choulamani - Gender Resource Information Centre (Laos);
Hajiya Goroso Giwa Limota - International Women Communication Centre (Nigeria);
and Anoja Wickramasinghe - University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka).

Workshop co-ordinator: Lucinda Zoe
Lesbian Herstory Archives Asst. Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, USA.

Part I: Forum -- "Lesbian & Community Collections: Agents of Social Change" This open forum includes presentations by lesbian archives and representatives from community organisations that collect lesbian materials and are involved in documenting social movements. Presenters will be discussing their involvement in community activism, the beginnings of their organisations, their collection development and outreach strategies, and how their collections are being used. Duration: 90 minutes.

Presenters include:
Brigitte Geiger - Stichwort Archives (Austria);
Karen Martin - Gay and Lesbian Archives (South Africa);
Tatjana Greif - SKUC-LL (Lesbian Group) (Slovenia); Olga Jans - Lesbisch Archief Nijmegen (the Netherlands);
Arfah Hani Abdullah - Pink Triangle (Malaysia); and Lucinda Zoe - Lesbian Herstory Archives and Baruch College, CUNY (USA).

Part II: Round Robin Workshop -- "Power of Naming: Classification, Confidentiality & Access" This working session includes short presentations on a variety of nuts and bolts issues with collecting, processing and making accessible lesbian materials. Session is designed to encourage discussion and participation. All participants and presenters are encouraged to bring ideas, thesauri, collection development policies, principles, sample donor forms, organisational schemes, sample web pages, brochures, etc. that will be of interest and use to others.
Workshop leaders: Lucinda Zoe (Lesbian Herstory Archives and Baruch College, CUNY, USA) and Marianne Boere (IIAV, the Netherlands). Duration: 90 minutes

Presenters include:
Olga Stefaniuk - Polish Lesbian Archives (Poland);
Yolanda Ritter - Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles (USA); );
Adele Patrick - Glasgow Women's Library (United Kingdom);
and Ivana Cikes - Because Press (Croatia).

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

The subject of this workshop is making women's information available on Internet: practical information, research material, information about meetings, agendas for action, petitions, information on projects, on the areas of the Platform for Action, electronic publications, magazines, online catalogues, mailing lists.... What information are women looking for on the Internet? Do women from the South, East, and North have different information needs?

Points of concern in disseminating information via Internet are, for example, language, technical and communications facilities (the reason that e-mail and mailing lists are preferred to the World Wide Web in Africa and Latin America as a means for disseminating information), and target groups (women at the grassroots level may have different interests to those working at governmental or regional levels). We have to apply diverse strategies, methods, and means to reflect the diversity of women's needs. What role can women's information services play in disseminating information via Internet? Should we build a virtual library?

Presenters include:
Marie Helene Mottin-Sylla - ENDA-SYNFEV and APC-Africa-Women (Senegal);
Buhle Mbambo - University of Botswana Library (Botswana);
Joelle Palmieri - Les Pénélopes (France);
Alejandra Scampini - Red de Educacion Popular Entre Mujeres de America Latina y el Caribe (REPEM) (Uruguay);
and Marzia Vaccari - ServerDonne (WomenServer), Biblioteca del Centro di Documentazione delle Donne (Italy).

Workshop co-ordinator: Lourdes Vazquez
Rutgers University Library, New Jersey, USA.

Using women's biography as a point of reference, we will discuss the importance of writing women's personal history. Through examples and experiences, we will discuss the management of biographical information and its usefulness as well as the difficulties in developing these collections.

In this roundtable every participant will speak for 15 minutes, presenting issues, analyses, and case studies on the topic. Discussion will also be open to the floor. We will discuss and brainstorm on:

Presenters include:
Anne-Marie Eriksen - KVINFO (Denmark);
Karen Martin - Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa (GALA) (South Africa);
Sherrill Redmon - Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College (USA);
Bekir Kemal Ataman and Aynur Ilyasogla - Women's Library and Information Center (Turkey);
Dorothea Jacobson Wenzel - Truman College (USA), and Lourdes Vasquez - Rutgers University Library (USA).

Workshop co-ordinator: Inheemse Raad

The Amsterdam-based Indigenous Council and the participants of the Indigenous Women's pre-Conference will determine the content of this workshop.

Workshop co-ordinator: Gusta Drenthe
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The interdisciplinary nature of women's studies, drawing on source materials generated by activism as well as academia, raises important questions on several issues for information specialists. The publication output of research on gender issues in developed as well as developing countries has increased in recent years to such an extent that all participants in the information chain -- publishers, authors, and users of women's studies information -- are working hard to gain some level of control. In this workshop the creation and maintenance of women's studies collections, traditional and "virtual", the production and marketing of women's studies information on the Internet, and electronic bibliographical databases will be highlighted.

Presenters include:
Mayandi Thevar Suriya - Annamalai University (India); Omima Mustufa Ahmed - Documentation Unit for Women's Studies at the Ahfad University for Women (Sudan);
Crystal Kile - Newcomb College Centre for Research on Women (USA);
Phyllis Holman Weisbard - Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin (USA);
and Joke Webbink - Library of the Agricultural University (the Netherlands).

Please note: it is not certain whether all the people named as workshop presenters will be able to find the finances to be able to participate. At this point both the Know How Conference organisation and the individuals are doing their best to make this possible. Donations to Know How are welcome!