Library ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Institucionalization of the M.A. program in Gender Studies at the School of Humanities at University in Prague has been enabled thanks to the generous financial support of the JPD 2005-2007, under the auspices of: ****************************************************************************************** * GENDER STUDIES LIBRARY ******************************************************************************************   The departmenf of Gender Studies uses as its departmental library the library of non-profi Gender Studies, o.p.s., which is the largest public library of its kind and size in the Cz Central Europe. The library was established in 1991 by a sociologist Jiřina Šiklova, curre than 5,000 volumes and focuses on the following thematic areas: women's and men's studies; queer theories; history of women's movements; gender aspects in sociology, religion, sexua and psychology; positions of women and men in society, family and workplace. An integral p collection is also fiction and poetry of female authors. You can visit the library webpages through the portal: www.genderstudies.cz [ URL "http:// www.genderstudies.cz/"] Library of GS offers: - scholarly books, academic journals and "gray literature" (firm and companies publication publications, working papers) - in three languages - Czech, English and German - archive - women's journals and magazines, annual reports of Minerva association and Wome Guild, private correspondence and a part of inheritance of Eliška Krásnohorská - news and magazine clippings výstrižky - from Czech and English daily press (till 2000) - database of student gender theses - available from www.feminismus.cz/diplomky.shtml [ UR www.feminismus.cz/diplomky.shtml"]  (some of these works are a part of the collection of G Catalog of the GS library: bilingual on-line catalog is available: - in the Gender Studies library at http://gender/clavius/ [ URL "http://gender/clavius/"] - while searching outside of the GS library use link: www.genderstudies.cz [ URL "http:// www.genderstudies.cz/"]  >> knihovna >> katalog knihovny on-line Other Services: - inter-library borrowing - for readers and for the library it is used for aquiring docume not available in the collection of the library. It is possible to request its mailing or m Inter-library borrowing is free of charge, copies and mailings are charged according to th (available on the webpages of GS) - xerox services - 1,50 Kc / 1xA4, archival materials 5,- Kc / 1xA4 - reference services - through these services the library offers factographic information about sources. The library sends free of charge via email short, concrete answers to concr short book lists, magazine lists or information about internet links - internet access -free for registered readers - on-line feminist bookstore >> http://knihkupectvi.feminismus.cz/ [ URL "http:// knihkupectvi.feminismus.cz/"] - EBSCO - full-text database in humanities and social sciences Address: Knihovna Gender studies, o.p.s. Gorazdova 20 120 00, Praha 2 tel/fax: +420 224 913 350 e-mail: gender.knihovna@ecn.cz [ URL "mailto:gender.knihovna@ecn.cz"] , gender.libri@ecn.c "mailto:gender.libri@ecn.cz"] , gender.library@ecn.cz [ URL "mailto:gender.library@ecn.cz" Opening Hours:  Mo     12-18  We    12-18 Th     12-18 Fr      12-18