Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
from Special Collections Library at Duke University

Collection Principles - The collection focuses on items from "the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s." The specific documents represented by the online collection were chosen by one professor to support a class taught in 1997.

Object Characteristics - The objects are scanned in color, although only select pages are scanned. The text of the books is transcribed, although only select passages. This may have to do with copyright and/or budget limitations. The collection includes a link to Duke's copyright and use page, although it just lists main points of copyright law, and a section where the university denies any responsibility for copyright violation. The overall theme is fair use.

This particular object only has two digitized articles and three images.

Metadata - The home page of the collection includes some technical scanning information. "This collection was scanned with a Sharp JX-330 color flatbed scanner with Adobe Photoshop on a PowerMacintosh 9500/120." I have noticed that digitization projects conducted by universities tend to have more apparent and inclusive metadata.

Audience - The original audience were the members of the class taught in 1997 that these materials were chosen to support. The site says that one of its goals is to "support current teaching and research interests related to this period in U.S. history." So the general audience is academics, researchers, students,and professors.