Women’s Studies
Collection Analysis
Project
Sarah Hickey
Kent State Practicum Student
For Jane Wu, Otterbein University
Otterbein’s WGSS Program Focus
 The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at
Otterbein is committed to a critical and feminist
understanding of gender and power across cultural
contexts, social locations, and disciplinary boundaries.
 The program underlines two important and interrelated
learning goals:
 A deepened understanding of the history, contributions,
conditions, and issues affecting women in local, national,
and transnational contexts
 A broad exploration of the multiple systems and social
meanings that construct our understandings of gender and
sexuality
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies Curriculum
 WGSS 1100: Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
 WGSS 2001 - Theories and Methods: Feminisms
 WGSS 2002: Theories and Methods: Gender and Sexuality Studies
 WGSS 3000: Special Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
 WGSS 3900: Independent Study
 WGSS 4000 - Internship/Practicum in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies
 WGSS 4100: Teaching Practicum in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
 WGSS 4200 - Practicum in Collective Action
 WGSS 4600: Senior Project
 WGSS 4900: Internship
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies Affiliated Courses

ANTH 2200: Anthropology of Sex and Gender

ART 2200: Hot Mamas and Guerilla Girls: Women as Artists and Subjects in the Visual Arts

BIO 2700: Gender and Biology

ENGL 2231: Studies in Women's Literatures

ENGL 234: Studies in GLTBQ Literatures

HIST 2600: Women's History

HIST 3501 Gender and Witchcraft in the Atlantic World

HIST 3503: The History of Sexuality in the U.S.

JAMC 3500: Race, Gender, Class and Media

MUSC 3042: Women in Music

REL 2700: Women and Religion

REL 3600: Weaving Women's Mythologies--Ancient and Modern

PSC 3750: Gender and Feminist Political Theory

PSYC 3420: Psychology of Women

SOCL 2040 – Sociology of Gender

SOCL 3020 – Sociology of Family Diversity

SOCL 3100 - Human and Community Services: Organizing Across Race, Class, Gender and Age
Collection Analysis Goals
 To identify weaknesses and strengths and to fill gaps
 To establish a collection building strategy
 To identify under-utilized areas of collection
 To compare our collection to Ohiolink
 To evaluate our collection against curriculum frameworks,
and professional guidelines
 To revise the previous written collection development policy
 To assist in weeding
 Demonstrate effective academic support through program
review
Source: Jane Wu
Optimal Collection
Collection
Development
Policy
Introduction
Purpose and
Scope
c. Collection
Levels
d. Library
Resources
Supporting
the Program
Studies
e. Additional
Resources
a.
b.
Curriculum
Analysis
Course
Catalog
b. Major or
Minor
c. Required or
Selective
d. Research
Factor
e. Faculty
Survey and
Interview
a.
Data
Collection
List Checking
Data
b. Conspectus
Classification
Lines
Analysis
c. Library
System
Generated
Data
d. User
Feedback
a.
Data Analysis
and Reporting
a. Identify Gaps
b. Establish
Collection
Building
Strategies
c. Establish
Weeding
Plans
Source: Jane Wu
ACRL Women’s Studies Section
 ACRL Women’s Studies
Core Books
 Qualitative and
quantitative evaluation
 Compare our collection
to Ohiolink’s
 Encourage cooperative
collection development
and access to women
and gender studies
collection
 Establish collection
building strategies
Source: Jane Wu
The Process
1. I was provided a spreadsheet of the current WS
Collection divided by LC Subject Headings and quantity
owned by Otterbein and Ohio Link. I reviewed all
materials held by Otterbein for Women’s Studies in the
following LC headings:
B, B, E, G, H, J, L, M, N, P, Q, R, T, U Z.
2. From this I created a spreadsheet of items to be
weeded. I evaluated the collection by the publication
date, circulation statistics, relevance to current
curriculum and quantity of items available at other
OPAL or Ohio Link Libraries.
I initially came up with 76 items to weed. After double
checking availability at other OPAL and OhioLink
Libraries, and reevaluating the list, I reduced it to 47
items.
The Process Continued
3. The next step was to select new titles to purchase. I
created a spreadsheet of suggestions based on the areas I
had weeded attempting to fill in areas that had been
reduced. I also reviewed the curriculum and suggested
additions that would support it. One aspect of creating
this list of suggested purchases was to determine at what
level each subject heading should be collected at.
4.
Next I revised the spreadsheet of items owned by Call
Number and subject to include the quantities in each
category that I suggested weeding and purchasing.
5.
Finally, I reviewed and revised the current collection
development policy to include any new subject areas –
particularly in Gender Studies.
Titles to Weed
Title
Author
Pub
Call #
Circ
Subject
Opal/
OhLink
The philosophy of
wonder
Cornelis Verhoeven
1972
B105.W65 V4713
0
Philosophy
3/17
Human sexuality for
health professionals
Martha Underwood
1978
BF692 .H8
0
Psychology/Sex
3/17
Turning points
Ellen Goodman
1979
BF692.2 .G66
0
Psychology/Sex
4/4
The many faces of sex
Theodor Reik
1966
BF692 .R38
1
Psychology/Sex
3/9
Sex research, new
developments
Frank A. Beach
1965
BF692 .M58
1
Psychology/Sex
4/15
The development of sex
differences
Eleanor E. Maccoby
1966
BF692 .M27
1
Psychology/Sex
4/37
Love and will
Rollo May
1969
BF692 .M34
1
Psychology/Sex
7/56
Midolescence : the
dangerous years
Fred McMorrow
1974
BF692.5 .M32
0
Psychology/Sex
4/12
The longest war : sex
differences in
perspective
Carol Tavris
1977
BF692.2 .T38
2
Psychology/Sex
5/22
Sex and gender issues :
a handbook of tests and
measures
Carole A. Beere
1990
BF692 .B38 1990
0
Psychology/Sex
3/18
Magic, divination, and
witchcraft among the
Barotse N Rhodesia
Barrie Reynolds
1963
BF1584.R5 R4
0
Witchcraft
9/22
Titles to Weed/2
Title
Author
Pub
Call #
Circ
Subject
Opal/
OhLink
Diving deep and
surfacing : women
writers on spiritual quest
Carol P. Christ
1980
BL458 .C47 1980
0
Comparative
Religion
7/39
Encyclopedia of women
and world religion
Serinity Young
1990
BL458 .E53 1999
0
Comparative
Religion
11/55
The crone : woman of
age, wisdom, and power
Barbara G. Walker
1985
BL625.7 .W35 1985
2
Comparative
Religion
4/17
Few are chosen
1953
BX4216.F4 A3
0
Religious Orders
4/4
I leap over the wall;
contrasts and
impressions after twentyeight years in a convent
1950
BX4210 .B25 1950
0
Religious Orders
5/22
Doers & dowagers
Felicia W Roosevelt
1975
CT3260 .R58
0
Women -- US -- Bio
3/11
It all started with Eve
Richard Armour
1956
CT3203 .A67
0
Women -- US -- Bio
3/13
Women, an
anthropological view
Evelyn S. Kessler
1976
GN479.7 .K47
0
Social/Sex Roles
4/17
Sexual stratification: a
cross-cultural view
Alice Schlegel
1977
GN479.7 .S48
0
Social/Sex Roles
4/32
Women and society : an
anthropological reader
Sharon W. Tiffany
1979
GN479.7 .W66
1
Social/Sex Roles
3/11
Race, jobs and politics ;
the story of FEPC
Louis Ruchames
1953
HD4903.5.U58 R8
0
Labor /
Discrimination
5/24
The economics of
discrimination
Gary S. Becker
1971
HD4903.5.U58 B4
1971
2
Labor /
Discrimination
5/33
Titles to Weed/3
Title
Author
Pub
Call #
Circ
Subject
Opal/
OhLink
Women in industry ;
employment patterns of
women in corporate
America
Jerolyn R. Lyle
1973
HD6095 .L94
0
Classes of labor
(Women)
4/23
Pink collar workers:
inside the world of
women's work
Louise K Howe
1977
HD6095 .H68 1977
0
Classes of labor
(Women)
5/28
America's working
women
Rosalyn Baxandall
1976
HD6095 .A662 1976
1
Classes of labor
(Women)
5/22
Sexual harassment
[videorecording] :
building awareness on
campus
Media Education
Foundation
1995
LC212.86 .S49 1995
0
Sex discrimination
in higher education
3/10
Education and a
woman's life ;
proceedings
Lawrence E. Dennis
1963
LC1551 .I8 1962
0
Women. Girls
Education
3/23
Old mistresses : women,
art, and ideology
Rozsika Parker
1981
N8354 .P37 1981
0
Women artist,
feminism and art
7/28
Women in mass
communication :
challenging gender
values
Pamela J. Creedon
1989
P94.5.W65 W67 1989
0
Mass media and
women
5/24
Where the meanings are
Catharine R. Stimpson
1988
PN98.W64 S75 1988
0
Women and
literature
4/19
Getting personal :
feminist occasions and
other autobiographical
acts
Nancy K. Miller
1991
PN98.W64 M55 1991
0
Feminist literary
criticism
3/19
Titles to Weed/4
Title
Author
Pub
Call #
Circ
Subject
Opal/
OhLink
Literary women
Ellen Moers
1976
PN471 .M63
0
Women authors
2/39
1974
PN471 .H3
0
Women authors
8/35
Seduction and betrayal ;
women and literature
Electronic journalism
William A. Wood
1967
PN4784.T4 W6
0
Television
broadcasting of
news
2/18
Writing news for
broadcast
Edward Bliss
1971
PN4784.T4 B5
0
Television
authorship
3/21
Community journalism ;
a way of life
Bruce M. Kennedy
1974
PN4784.C73 K4
0
Journalism
4/8
Financial and economic
journalism : analysis,
interpretation…
Donald Kirsch
1978
PN4784.B75 B76
0
Journalism,
Commercial
2/4
Writing and reporting
broadcast news
E. Joseph Broussard
1982
PN4784.B75 B76
0
Broadcast
journalism -Authorship
1/9
Journalism for the 21st C
: online information,
electronic databases…
Tom Koch
1991
PN4784.E53 K63
1991
0
Information storage
and retrieval
systems -Newspapers
3/15
The female imagination
Patricia Meyer Spacks
1975
PR115 .S6 1975
0
Women in literature
4/31
Fair science : women in
the scientific community
Jonathan R. Cole
1987
Q130 .C64 1987
0
Women in science - Social aspects
4/26
Titles to Weed/5
Title
Author
Pub
Call #
Circ
Subject
Opal/
OhLink
In her own words : oral
histories of women
physicians
Regina M. Morantz
1985
R692 .I5
0
Women physicians
-- United States -Biography
3/19
Women in health &
illness : life experiences
and crises
Diane K. Kjervik
1986
RC451.4.W6 W656
1986
0
Life change events
-- Psychological
aspects
3/13
Lives in stress : women
and depression
Deborah Belle
1982
RC451.4.W6 L58
1982
0
Women -- Mental
health
4/20
Nursing care of victims
of family violence
Jacquelyn Campbell
1984
RC569.5.F3 C35 1984
0
Family violence
4/20
Suggested Titles to Purchase
Title
Author
Worlds of difference:
inequality in the aging Stoller, Eleanor Palo
experience
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
2000
Aging
761986642
$51.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink:2
Goddesses in older
women: archetypes
in women over fifty
Bolen, Jean
2002
Aging
60929235
$13.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink:1
Embracing your
power woman:
coming of age in the
second half of life: a
course in feminine
power
Wilder, Barbara
2005
Aging
9780967334622
paper $19.95
OPAL:0 OhioLINK:0
Doing sixty and
seventy
Steinem, Gloria
2006
Aging
9780975874424
$19.95
OPAL:0 OhioLINK:0
Amazing grays: a
woman's guide to
making the next 50
the best 50
Crane, Maggie Rose
2008
Aging
9780966087499
paper $19.95
OPAL:0 OhioLINK:0
Male and female: the
classic study of the
sexes
Mead, Margaret
2001
Anthropology and
archaeology
0060934964
paper $15.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Ancient bodies,
ancient lives: sex,
gender, and
archaeology
Joyce, Rosemary
2009
Anthropology and
archaeology
9780500051535
$29.95, paper $17.95 OPAL:0 OhioLINK:2
Shattering the myths:
women in academe
Glazer-Raymo,
Judith
2001
Education
0801866413
paper $19.95, ebook
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
$45.00
Suggested Titles to Purchase/2
Title
Author
From Minerva to
Madonna: the
education of
Parkes, Susan M
women and girls in
Ireland
Earning more and
getting less: why Tichenor, Veronica
successful wives
Janis
can't buy equality
The age of
independence:
interracial unions, Rosenfeld, Michael
same-sex unions,
J.
and the changing
American family
The time bind:
when work
becomes home and Hochschild, Arlie
home becomes
work
Sisterhood is
powerful: an
anthology of
Morgan, Robin
writings from the
women's liberation
movement
Expanding the
classroom:
Hyman, Colette A. /
fostering active
Lichtenstein, Diane
learning and
Marilyn
activism
Womanlish Black
girls: dancing
Smith, Diane
contradictions of
resistance
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
2007
Education
97807816526506
$65.00
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
2005
Family
9780674024977
$62.00, paper
$23.95, ebook
$62.00
OPAL:1 Ohiolink:0
2007
Family
9780674024977
$47.50
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
2001
Family / Labor
805066438
paper $16.00
OPAL: 0 OhioLink: 1
2000
Feminist movements
in the United States
1558612475
$19.95
OPAL: 0 OhioLink: 0
1999
Feminist pedagogy
1558612327
paper $18.00
0 OhioLink: 0
2003
Feminist pedagogy
820438138
$41.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Suggested Titles to Purchase/3
Title
Author
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
Identity, diversity
and teaching for
social justice
Perumal, Juliet
2007
Feminist pedagogy
9783039108725
paper $93.95
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:1
A glossary of
feminist theory
Andermahr, Sonya
2000
Feminist theory
340762799
Price: $29.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 2
Feminist theory: the
intellectual
Donovan, Josephine
traditions of
American feminism
2000
Feminist theory
826412483
$22.95
OPAL: 0 OhioLink: 0
Gender and
migration in global,
historical, and
theoretical
perspective
Schrover, Marlou
2009
Geography and
travel
9780415801720
$95.00
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
Selma, Lord,
Selma: girlhood
memories of the
civil-rights days
Webb, Sheyann /
Nelson, Rachel West
/ Sikora, Frank
1997
Girls and girlhood
817308989
Social life in old
New Orleans, being
recollections of my
girlhood
Ripley, Eliza
1998
Girls and girlhood
1565544609
paper $19.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Wild horses: an
1890s girlhood in
New Mexico
Henderson, Eva
Pendleton
2001
Girls and girlhood
865343365
paper $12.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
paper $15.95, ebook
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
$15.95
Suggested Titles to Purchase/4
Title
Author
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Tarbox, Katherine
2004
Girls and girlhood
0452286611
paper $13.00
2004
Girls and girlhood
1584302313
$18.95
920 O'Farrell Street:
a Jewish girlhood in Levy, Harriet Lane
old San Francisco
2007
Girls and girlhood
9781104834777
Becoming peers:
mentoring girls into
womanhood
L'am, DeAnna
2007
Girls and girlhood
9780979351808
paper $14.99
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:1
African American
women's health and
social issues
Collins, Catherine
Fisher
2006
Health
9780275980825
$59.95
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
Women, poverty,
and AIDS: sex,
drugs, and
structured violence
Farmer, Paul
2005
HIV and AIDS
9781567513479
AIDS sourcebook
Alexander, Ivy L.
2007
HIV and AIDS
9780780809970
A girl's life online
Rattlesnake Mesa:
stories from a
Weber, EdNah New
native American
Rider
childhood
Holdings
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
$43.95, paper $28.95 OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
$49.95, paper $24.95 OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
$87.00
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
Suggested Titles to Purchase/5
Title
Author
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
Feminism,
community and
communication
Olson, Mary E.
2000
Language
789011514
The A-Z of nonsexist language
Doyle, Margaret
2001
Language
788196537
$15.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Gendered lives:
communication,
gender, and culture
Wood, Julia T.
2003
Language
534581633
$57.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 2
Same words
different language:
why men and
women don't
understand each
other at work and
what to do about it
Annis, Barbara
2003
Language
749924640
paper $14.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
Speaking in queer
tongues:
globalization and
gay language
Leap, William
2004
Language
252028716
$44.95, paper $19.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink:
OhioLink Resource
Equal: women
reshape American
law
Strebeigh, Fred
2009
Law
9780393065558
$35.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Gender and law:
theory, doctrine,
commentary
Bartlett, Katharine T.
2010
Law
9780735589315
$155.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
$49.95, paper $24.95 OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
Suggested Titles to Purchase/6
Title
Author
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
2005
Management
1891859595
$24.95
OPAL: 0 OhioLINK: 0
2003
Mental Health
1560233109
2009
Music
9780557084036
$24.99
OPAL: 0 OhioLINK: 1
Impure thoughts:
essays on
Addelson, Kathryn
philosophy,
Pyne
feminism and ethics
1992
Philosophy
877229600
Paper $22.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Ascent of woman: a
history of the
suffragette
movement
Phillips, Melanie
2005
Politics, U.S.
9780349116600
paper $20.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
The Constitution as
a social design:
gender and civic
membership in the
American
constitutional order
Ritter, Gretchen
2006
Dancing on the
glass ceiling :
Olcott, Don
women, leadership,
and technology
Mental health
issues for sexual
minority women:
Hughes, Tonda L.
redefining women's
mental health
The feminine
musique:
multimedia and
Young, Sabrina Pena
women today: and,
On writing for
multimedia
Politics, U.S.
'9780804753784
$39.95, paper $19.95 OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
$75.00, paper $31.95 OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Suggested Titles to Purchase/7
Title
Author
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
A companion to
gender history
Meade, Teresa A.
2006
Reference
9781405149600
$43.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 2
Carry the word: a
bibliography of
Fullwood, Steven G.
black LGBTQ books
2007
Reference
9780978625146
$16.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
The atlas of women
in the world
2009
Reference
9781844076086
$20.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Friends of God and
prophets: a feminist Johnson, Elizabeth
theological
A.
discourse
1999
Religion
826411983
Good sex: feminist
perspective from Jung, Patricia Beattie
the world's religions
2001
Religion
813528844
Paper $20.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
Seager, Joni
Price: paper $19.95 OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
From self-help to
the state: the
politics of child
sexual abuse
Whittier, Nancy
2009
Sexual Abuse
9780195325102
$29.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink:0
The essential
handbook to
women's spirituality
and ritual
Walker, Barbara
2000
Spirituality
1931412642
$22.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Suggested Titles to Purchase/8
Title
Author
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
Cries of the spirit: a
celebration of
women's spirituality
Sewell, Marilyn
2000
Spirituality
807068497
Paper $21.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Gimbutas, Marija
2001
Spirituality
500282498
paper $24.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Grundy, Pamela
2005
Sports
1565848225
$26.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 0
Gender, health and
information
technology in
context
Balka, Ellen
2009
Technology
9780230216341
$90.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 2
Talking visions:
multicultural
feminism in a
transnational age
Shohat, Ella
2001
Transnational
feminism
262692619
2007
Transnational
feminism / Women of
color / Feminist
theory
9781879960749
paper $16.95
OPAL:0 Ohiolink:0
U.S. history /
Feminist movements
in the United States
140097198
Price: $16.00
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 1
The language of the
goddess:
unearthing the
hidden symbols of
western civilization
Shattering the
Glass: the dazzling
history of women's
basketball from the
turn of the century
to the present
Borderlands/la
frontera: the new
Mestiza
Anzaldúa, Gloria
The world split
open: how the
modern women's
movement changed
America
Rosen, Ruth
$55.00, paper $32.00 OPAL: 0 OhioLink: 0
Suggested Titles to Purchase/9
Title
Author
Date
Subject
ISBN
Cost
Holdings
Condi: The
Condoleeza Rice
Story
Felix, Antonia
2005
U.S. Politics
1557046751
$19.95
OPAL: 0 OhioLink: 0
Domestic violence
at the margins:
readings on race,
class, gender, and
culture
Sokoloff, Natalie J.
2005
Women of color
813535697
Ain't I a woman:
Black women and
feminism
Hooks, bell
2007
Women of Color
978-0-89608-769-9
paper $16.00
OPAL: 0 OhioLink: 0
Wild politics:
feminism,
globalisation,
bio/diversity
Hawthorne, Susan
2002
1876756241
Paper $19.95
OPAL: 0 Ohiolink: 2
Total Cost
$1915.48
$70.00, paper $29.95 OPAL: 1 Ohiolink: 0
Collection Evaluation and
Assessment Benefits
 A management tool to adapt collections to
changes in mission, programs or user patterns
 A tool for internal analysis for developing
acquisition policies, plans, priorities, and
strategies
 A tool to respond systematically to budget
reductions or reallocations
 A communication tool and data for resource
sharing and collection development
arrangements
Source: Jane Wu
Collection Evaluation and
Assessment Benefits
 A clearer and more complete profile of collection
levels within the subject area
 A basis for more selective development of
subject collections
 An additional and more complete picture of
resource patterns locally and in the region
 Enhanced professional skills in systematic
collection development
 A base for greater teamwork among collection
developers whose subject areas overlap
Source: Jane Wu