16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

The Rutgers University Libraries, in collaboration with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), both of the School of Arts and Sciences, developed this collection to provide digitized access to nearly 300 posters published by women’s rights organizations worldwide and housed at CWGL. The posters chronicle 20 years of transnational women’s activism and advocacy, while documenting evolving issues of the global women’s movement. The digital repository is housed in RUcore, the Rutgers Community Institutional Repository, an online archive, where they are accessible to all.

This paper presented at IFLA conference (2013) discusses a successful example of how academic libraries can support the global women’s rights movement and impact social change. The collaboration between the Margery Somers Foster Center of the Rutgers’ University Libraries and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey, USA resulted in the creation of the “CWGL Poster Collection,” an open-access portal providing access to approximately 300 posters, with corresponding metadata, published by women’s rights organizations worldwide and housed at CWGL. and housed at CWGL. The posters chronicle twenty years of transnational women’s activism and advocacy, while also documenting the visual culture of the global women’s movement. The “CWGL Poster Collection” resides digitally in RUcore, Rutgers Community Repository, where its content will be preserved for future generations.