Resource
Organization
The
Section started to operate in 1992 after receiving some financial support
as seed money from The Global Fund for Women, California. Within eight
year, the Section collected a good stock of more than 5000 documents from
various sources (both national and international), most of the literature,
information and other resources on women and its related fields like education,
health, employment, environment, human rights, trafficking, prostitution,
rape, violence, discrimination, AIDS/HIV, development policy and planning,
movements, feminism etc.
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It also held varied materials like books, monographs,
documents, journals, reports proceedings, case studies, government documents,
UN documents booklets, pamphlets, posters, photos, audio-visual cassettes,
newspaper clippings, etc.
ASMITA
also functions as a resource
organization on women studies. Therefore, it has set up a separate section
for the documentation of information. Asmita's Information & Documentation
Section has a huge collection of publication on women studies.
On
the one hand, the Information Documentation Section has been, in fact,
enhancing the personal capacity of ASMITA staffs and making its publications
and productions more strong, bold and competitive. In a sense, it has
proved to be one of the supporting pillars of Asmita magazine and organization
itself because the systematic documentation of information provides a
good chance of learning exact situation and gaining knowledge about the
issues at any time. On the other side the Section has been more fruitful
for the interested individual who likes to be familiar with women and
women related issues.
Generally,
the Section develops collection of all types of books and non-books. Moreover,
the organization is maintaining network with more than 1,000 national
and international issues. ASMITA should be more strong and sustainable
to extend and expand the service of this systematic way and according
to the rules of the organization.
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