Conference Session 201

Inspiring and empowering women through access to information

Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 2 | SI

• Women empowering through access to information: the strategic roles on NGOs in Nigeria
  ADETOUN A. OYELUDE & ALICE A. BAMIGBOLA (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
• Sources and channels of information access and use in the information and knowledge society: a case study of informal sector women entrepreneurs of Hlabisa Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  VELI JIYANE, and MABEL MINISHI-MAJANJA (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) and JANNEKE MOSTERT and DENNIS OCHOLLA (University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa)
• Women as leaders of culture and change: a paper on BRAC’s Multi-purpose Community Learning Centre (MCLC)
  NAZRUL ISLAM and ARCHI BISWAS (Brac Education Programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
• Providing information to women in Croatia: improvements inspired by feminist groups' initiatives
  EDITA BAČIĆ (University of Split, Split, Croatia)

The four speakers will join quest panelist IFLA President-Elect Sinikka Sipilä for a question and answers session on the role of library and information professionals inspiring and empowering women through access to information.