The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation (WLICF) is the first and only women-centred library and archive in Turkey. It was founded in Istanbul by Aslı Davaz, Füsun Akatlı, Füsun Ertuğ, Jale Baysal, and Şirin Tekeli; and opened to the public on 14 April, 1990. At that time, the women’s movement in Turkey had already gathered a wealth of documents related to the struggle for women’s rights. These documents concerned issues such as equal pay for equal work, equality in civil rights, ending all kinds of violence against women and equal representation in parliament. The collections of the Women’s Library in Istanbul are organized in sixteen main sections: Women’s Private Papers, Women’s Oral History, Women’s Organizations, Ephemera, Women Writers, Women Artists, Visual Documents, Audio Material, Posters, Art Collections, Newspaper Clippings, Books, Periodicals, Rare Material, Thesis-Dissertations and Articles. These documents are unique and cannot be found elsewhere. Because libraries and archives centres in general do not have an acquisition policy regarding the women’s movement documents in Turkey, large quantities of ephemeral material regarding the women’s movement is only kept by the Women’s Library. The institution frames and constitutes the memory of women and the women’s movement, and the growth of our collection is parallel to the development of the feminist consciousness in Turkey.

AREA / SUBJECT OF THE FELLOWSHIP

Fellowship activity will focus on Periodicals Collection and an Armenian women's journal.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED FELLOWSHİP ACTIVITY

In WLICF's collection of periodicals there are 51 issues of Armenian women’s journal Hay Gin, which was published without interruption for 14 years between 1919-1933. The Library aims to establish a bibliography of all the articles in Hay Gin, and open this archive for a network in cooperation with the National Library of Armenia about the journal.

EXPECTED PROFILE

Librarian having an average knowledge of Turkish.

CONDITIONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Office hours are 09:30 to 17:30 on weekdays.

PROPOSED TIME FOR THE FELLOWSHIP

The fellowship activity shall take place either in the period of June-July 2020 or July-August 2020.