Joan Ariel files on Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine, 1968-2000

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Summary

Creators:
Ariel, Joan
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.
Extent:
6.2 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Language:
The collection is in English.
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. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Joan Ariel, 2006.
Processing information:

Processed by Joanna Lamb, 2009

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.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Location of this collection:
Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries, P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA 92623-9557, US
Contact:
(949) 824-3947
spcoll@uci.libanswers.com
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