Guide to the Joan Ariel Files on Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine
AS.105
Finding aid prepared by Joanna Lamb
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, 92623-9557
949-824-3947
spcoll@uci.edu
© 2009
Title: Joan Ariel files on Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine
Identifier/Call Number: AS.105
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Language of Material:
English.
Physical Description:
6.2 linear feet
(14 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1968-2000
Abstract: This collection comprises files retained by Joan Ariel that document the University of California, Irvine Women's Studies
program, resources for women at UC Irvine, and the UC Irvine LGBT community. As the Women's Studies Librarian and a Women's
Studies faculty member at UC Irvine, Ariel served with numerous groups and organizations that supported women's issues and
the LGBT community on and off campus, including the Women's Studies Program Steering Committee, The Lilac Collective, and
the Pacific Women's Studies Association. This collection reflects her involvement with these groups and many others and documents
their activities from 1971 to 2000.
Language of Collection Materials: The collection is in English.
creator:
Ariel, Joan
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head
of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Joan Ariel Files on Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine. AS-105. Special Collections and Archives, The
UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Joan Ariel, 2006.
Processing History
Processed by Joanna Lamb, 2009
Historical Background
Joan Ariel played a vital role in the development of the UC Irvine Women's Studies program. In addition to serving as the
Women's Studies librarian for nearly twenty years, she served on the Women's Studies Steering Committee, as a Women's Studies
course instructor, and as the academic coordinator for Women's Studies. Ariel participated in numerous campus groups and organizations
that supported women's issues. She also contributed to the establishment of the many gay and lesbian groups that remain active
on the UC Irvine Campus including the Lilac Collective and the Gay and Lesbian Faculty and Staff Network.
Ariel excelled as a women's studies librarian, contributing considerably to the field of women's studies librarianship. She
was an active member of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and in 1983 she helped form the ACRL Women's
Studies Discussion Group. In 1987 Ariel published her book
Building Women's Studies Collections: A Resource Guide. That same year the ACRL discussion group that Ariel helped establish became the ACRL Women's Studies Section. In 2002 Ariel
received the ACRL Women's Studies Section Achievement Award for significant achievements and contributions to the field of
academic women's studies librarianship. She ended her career at the University of California in 2006 as the shared print planning
manager for UC system wide library planning in the Office of the President. At the time of her retirement she planned to continue
working as the part-time library director at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises files retained by Joan Ariel that document the University of California, Irvine Women's Studies
program, resources for women at UC Irvine, and the UC Irvine LGBT community. As the Women's Studies Librarian and a Women's
Studies faculty member at UC Irvine, Ariel served with numerous groups and organizations that supported women's issues and
the LGBT community on and off campus, including the Women's Studies Program Steering Committee, The Lilac Collective, and
the Pacific Women's Studies Association. This collection reflects her involvement with these groups and many others and documents
their activities from 1971 to 2000.
This collection includes agendas, minutes, correspondence, publications, reports, proposals, newsletters, photographs, and
ephemera.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 3 series: 1. Women's Studies files, 1975-2000. 2. Resource materials for women at UC Irvine,
1971-1998. 3. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community files, 1984-1996.
Related Collections
Related materials can be found in the following collections:
Joan Ariel Files on Women's Political Activism. MS-R111. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine,
California.
Joan Ariel Collection of Lesbian Periodicals. MS-R136. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine,
California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ariel, Joan -- Archives
Affirmative action programs -- California -- Irvine -- Archives.
Bisexuals -- California -- Orange County -- Archives.
California Commission on the Status of Women--Archives
Gays -- California -- Orange County -- Archives.
Lesbians -- California -- Orange County -- Archives.
Newsletters -- 20th century.
Newspapers -- 20th century.
Syllabi--20th Century
Transgender people -- California -- Orange County -- Archives.
Women's rights--California--Orange County--Archives.
Women's studies -- United States -- 20th century--Archives.
Women's Studies files, Series 1
1975-2000
Summary
This series comprises materials collected by Joan Ariel as the UC Irvine Women's Studies librarian and documents the development
and activities of Women's Studies program at UC Irvine during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The majority of the materials relate
directly to Ariel's participation in the UC Irvine Women's Studies program as instructor, administrator, and librarian. This
series includes teaching files, organizational and administrative records, reports, photographs, and correspondence.
Restrictions
One file in this series is restricted until 2071. This file has been separated from the collection and has been moved to storage
with the restricted materials files.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 14, Folder 5
AARP women's history month posters,
1989-1994
Box 1, Folder 1
Barriers to Equality in Academia: Women in Computer Science at MIT,
1983 February
Box 1, Folder 2
Book reviews and library selection materials,
1982
Box 1, Folder 3
Book reviews by Joan Ariel,
1984 and 1987
Box 1, Folder 4
Buttons on women's rights issues,
undated
Box 1, Folder 5-7
Conference and seminar programs, ephemera, and other materials,
1976-1994
Box 1, Folder 8-9
Course syllabi,
1988-1994
Box 2, Folder 1-2
Pacific Women's Studies Association organizational records and ephemera,
1991-1993
Box 2, Folder 3
Photographs of Women's Studies students, exhibits, and other materials,
undated
Box 2, Folder 4
Proposal for an Undergraduate Major in Women's Studies at UCSD,
1991 May
Box 2, Folder 5
"A Proposal to Form a Department of Women's Studies in the School of Humanities" draft,
2000
Box 2, Folder 6
A Report to the Profession: Liberal Learning and the Woman's Studies Major,
1991
Box 2, Folder 7
Sourcebook for integrating the study of women into the curriculum,
1983
Box-folder 2 : 8-9, Box-folder 3 : 1-4
UC Council of Women's Programs correspondence, agendas, minutes, and other materials,
1986-1994
Box 3, Folder 5
UC Irvine Women's Study Forum attendance records, agendas, and other materials,
1993
Box 3, Folder 6
We Advocate Gender Equality (W.A.G.E.) clippings, ephemera, and committee records,
1993
Box 3, Folder 7
The Woman Question: An Annotated Guide to the Women's Pamphlet Collection in the Department of Special Collections,
1976
Box 4, Folder 1
Women's studies bibliography from the City College of San Francisco,
1975
Box 4, Folder 2
Women's Studies department ephemera, correspondence and other materials,
1989
Box-folder 4 : 3-11, Box-folder 5 : 1-6, Box-folder 14 : 1
Women's Studies program files,
1973-2002
Scope and Content note
Includes reports, proposals, newsletters, correspondence, bulletin board display materials, ephemera, and other materials.
Box 5, Folder 7-9
Women's Studies newsletters from other universities,
1982-1994
Box 6, Folder 1-7
Women's Studies Steering Committee correspondence, agendas, and other materials
1999-2005
Box 6, Folder 8
Women's Studies Student Association organizational records, ephemera, and other materials,
1988-1994
Box-folder 6 : 9-10, Box-folder 7 : 1-4
Women's Studies teaching files,
1974-1998
Scope and Content note
Includes files from courses that Joan Ariel taught, including the courses that produced the
Womyn's Quarterly and created the Women's Studies exhibits in the library.
Box Restricted Files
Student assignments from Womens Studies 199,
1995-1996 and undated
Restrictions note
All records in this folder are restricted until 2071.
Box 14, Folder 2-3
The Womyn's Quarterly newspaper,
1988-1997
Resource materials for women at UCI, Series 2
Summary
Series 2 includes handbooks, newsletters, and brochures created to provide resource information for women faculty, staff,
and students at UC Irvine in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Additionally, the series includes status reports and other materials
addressing sexual harassment and women's equality.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 7, Folder 5
Annual Report on the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women,
1980-1981
Box 7, Folder 6
Chancellor's Think Tank on Diversity report,
1989 July-October
Box-folder 7 : 7-8, Box-folder 8 : 1-8, Box-folder 9 : 1
Faculty Women's Association reports, agendas, and other materials,
1988-2001
The Orange County Feminist: PSWSA,
undated
Box AV-012, Cassette V001-A
Archival original,
undated
Physical description note
1 videocassette (VHS)
Bin AV-012, Cassette V001-U
Viewing copy,
undated
Physical description note
1 videocassette (VHS)
Box 9, Folder 2
A Report on the Status of Women Employed in the Library of the University of California, Berkeley, with Recommendations for
Affirmative Action
,
1971 December
Box 9, Folder 3
Report on the Status of Women's Programs at UC Irvine,
1973 December
Box 9, Folder 4
Sexual Harassment Advisor Training Manual,
1998
Box 9, Folder 5
UC Irvine's Policy on Sexual Harassment and Guidelines for Sexual Harassment Complaint Resolution and Policy Workgroup contact
list,
1986
Box 9, Folder 6
UC Irvine sexual harassment and disability brochures,
circa 1980s
Box 9, Folder 7
University of California Berkeley Report of Coordinating Committee on the Status of Women,
1989 March
Box 9, Folder 8
University of California Committee on the Status of women reports, agendas, and other materials,
1987
Box 9, Folder 9
Women's campus and community handbooks,
1975
Box 9, Folder 10
Women's Resource Center newsletters, handbooks, and other materials,
1988
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) campus organization files, Series 3
1984-1998
creator:
Ariel, Joan
Summary
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)campus organization files comprise materials collected by Joan Ariel from
faculty, staff, and student groups and organizations supporting the LGBT community at UC Irvine. This series documents Ariel's
participation in several LGBT groups including the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Lesbians and Gays, the
Gay and Lesbian Faculty and Staff Network, the Lesbian, Gay, the Bisexual Resource Center Advisory Board, and the Lesbian
and Gay Speakers Bureau. Also included are LGBT awareness training materials and materials documenting domestic partnership
housing on the UC Irvine campus.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ariel, Joan -- Archives
Box-folder 9 : 11, Box-folder 10 : 1-6
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Lesbians and Gays: reports, agendas, and other materials,
1985-1989
Box 10, Folder 7
The College Experience for Self Identified Lesbians and Bisexual Women at the University of California, Irvine,
1992 June
Box 11, Folder 1
Diversity retreat correspondence and other materials,
1988
Box 11, Folder 2-5
Domestic partnership housing files,
1988-1990
Box 11, Folder 6
First Annual Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film and Video: ephemera and
Blade magazine program,
1992
Box-folder 11 : 7-9, Box-folder 12 : 1-3
Gay and Lesbian Faculty and Staff Network agendas, minutes, correspondence, and other materials,
1984-1993
Scope and Content note
Includes correspondence, agendas, newsletters, ephemera, clippings, brochures, and other materials.
Box 12, Folder 4
Gay and lesbian campus groups: ephemera and other materials,
1986
Box 12, Folder 5
GLBT Studies emails,
1998
Box 12, Folder 6
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Resource Center Advisory Board minutes, correspondence, and other materials,
1988-1994
Box 12, Folder 7-8
Lesbian and Gay Speakers Bureau manual, agendas and other materials,
1987-1988
Box 13, Folder 1
Lesbian Parenting Conference promotional materials, schedules, and other materials,
1987-1988
Box 13, Folder 2-3
The Lilac Collective correspondence and other materials,
1996-1998
Box 13, Folder 4
Los Angeles Directory of Local Lesbian and Gay Organizations,
1987
Box 13, Folder 5
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Campus Project newsletters and promotional materials,
1988-1991
Box 13, Folder 6
Orange County LGBT community newsletters and ephemera,
1984
Box 13, Folder 7-8
Student Affairs Office LGBT awareness training materials,
1994
Box 13, Folder 9
Understanding and Meeting the Needs of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students,
1992 February 6
