There are multiple ways to use WKDL to find resources. From the home page, you can see recently added items or check out the featured collection and items. To search for a keyword, click the magnifying glass on the top right corner. You can also browse by topic by clicking on “Collections” at the top of the page.

Items are chosen by employees in the Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. We look for items that are freely available on the Internet, by or about women and girls around the world. We focus on items that might take time or skills to find, items that include robust and pragmatic information that people from around the world can understand and adapt to their own circumstances, and resources that are from a variety of viewpoints from academic to grassroots activism. We highlight work being done by women on the ground, especially from women and organizations who otherwise might not have affiliations with higher education. We aim to boost the signal of as many local, women-run and women-focused resources and organizations as possible.

In addition, we look at things like:

• Currency (When was the site created? Is it being maintained?)
• Accuracy (Is the information correct?)
• Design (How usable is the site? Is it full of broken links or spelling errors? How accessible is the site?)
• Content (Is the content relevant to what our users are looking for?)
• Authority (Who is responsible for the site? Were people who the information affects included in its creation?)
• Bias (From what perspective is the information presented? What is the affiliation of the creators?)

Yes, please do! We depend on you to let us know what organizations are doing great work in your country on the ground and to suggest resources that may be helpful to other women around the world. You can direct suggestions to us at askgwsl@library.wisc.edu.

Our priority is build and maintain a resource that people from around the world can use to access current, accurate, and relevant information by and about women and girls. We hope that by providing trustworthy resources in one place, we can support the work of educators, leaders, organizations, and others who are working to make positive change within their communities.

In the future, we aim to add original documents and records to the site from grassroots organizations and individuals who may be interested in making their items available digitally. These could be working files, strategic plans, assessment plans, photographs, histories, publications, or other documents that the organization or individual would like to make digitally available to others. We want to help preserve your work and make it visible and usable to others! If you are interested in learning more about this possibility, please contact us at askgwsl@library.wisc.edu.

In lots of ways!

• Send us links and descriptions of resources we could add to WKDL.
• Let us know if you have a collection of documents that you would like to include.
• If you are interested in making a monetary donation, we’d be happy to speak with you.
• If your organization is interested in partnering with us or sponsoring our work, we would love to discuss the possibilities!

Just contact us at askgwsl@library.wisc.edu with any suggestions, ideas, questions, or comments.