{"id":246,"date":"2020-10-20T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps-nellie-library\/?page_id=246"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:02:58","slug":"book-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/nellie-library\/our-catalogue\/book-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Nellie Library now has over 21,500 books and is steadily growing. The collection is designed to provide up-to-date resources for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty researchers working in and around gender, feminist and women\u2019s studies. We try to purchase all relevant works in these fields published in Canada and a representative sampling of those published in the U.K. and U.S. as well as some from the rest of the world. Because of the library\u2019s origins, we also have a strong selection of feminist classics from the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strength of our collection, like that of York\u2019s gender, sexuality and women\u2019s studies programs in general, lies in the social sciences and the humanities rather than in the sciences or fine arts. Notably, we have an exceptional collection of material on female spirituality (a 20-page bibliography of 1995 holdings is available and the items listed have since been added to be means of a small grant from Shell Canada Limited).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of our material is in various fields related to women, gender, sexuality and women\u2019s studies, and feminism. The collection is mostly written in English, but some is bilingual or in French. We also have books in Greek, Italian, Spanish and German.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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