New Look Genesis
In Spring 2011 Genesis is being relaunched in collaboration with the Archives Hub. This will bring together almost 200 institutions across the UK who will be contributing data. It will greatly improve the quality of the women's collections being located for Genesis users and make it easier for institutions to contribute collection details.
For more information about the Archives Hub please click here. For full details about Hub contributors please click here.
Please be aware that there will be changes made to these pages, and to the data-set of collection descriptions during this time. We apologise for any inconvenience in this period.
If you have any comments or suggestions about the 'new look Genesis', including suggestions for inclusion please email genesis@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
Existing and Potential Contributors
Collection Descriptions are now managed by the Archives Hub and Spokes. If you are an existing Hub contributor please see the Hub's Contributors pages to find out more about how to enter new collections or to update existing collections. The Genesis team is (slowly) contacting existing controbutors to update them re their individual circumstances. If you have not yet been contacted and wish to have an update please email genesis@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
To ensure your Archives Hub entries are included in Genesis please read the
Genesis Indexing Guide
If you are responsible for women's history collections that you would like to add, and you are not an existing Hub partner, please email Genesis.
Archive, Library and Museum Collections For this project the Hub will take Collection Level Descriptions from specialist printed collections and museum collections. The criteria are that the heritage collection is a discrete collection which is predominantly by or about women, and that the collection is available to the public (at least by appointment). Please email Genesis before contacting the Hub if you are interested in contributing.
Original Partners
In the original project there was a stand-alone database maintained by The Women's Library which was launched in 2002. There were 46 Genesis partners in total: 28 universities, 4 national collections (including 7 departments from the British Library) and 11 specialist collections (including 3 departments of the Imperial War Museum). They submitted collection descriptions to the Genesis database. There were also 3 associations who put us in touch with institutions holding women's history collections.
The original partners were: Birmingham University: Special Collections; Black Cultural Archives (BCA); British Library Sound Archive; British Library: Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections; British Library: Department of Manuscripts; British Library: Modern British Collections; British Library: Newspaper Library; British Library: Slavonic and East European Collections; British Library: West European Collections; Catholic Archives Society; Durham University: Heritage Collections; Bristol University Special Collections - Feminist Archive (South); Feminist Library; Cambridge University Girton College; Glasgow University Library; Glasgow Women's Library (UK); Homerton College, Cambridge; Imperial War Museum: Department of Documents; Imperial War Museum: Department of Printed Books; Imperial War Museum: Sound Archive; Institute of Education, Library Collections, Archives: University of London; Jersey Archive; Labour History Archive and Study Centre; London School of Economics (and Political Science British Library of Political and Economic Science, Archives); Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; Manchester: John Rylands; Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick; Museum of London; Newcastle Upon Tyne University, The Robinson Library; New Hall, University of Cambridge; Newnham College Library: University of Cambridge; Northamptonshire Record Office (UK); Open University Library; RASCAL: Research and special collections available locally in Northern Ireland; Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: Archives; Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre; Royal Holloway Archives, University of London (UK); School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library: University of London (UK); The National Archives (UK); The Women's Art Library: MAKE; The Women's Library: London Metropolitan University; Trades Union Congress Library Collections: London Metropolitan University; University of Edinburgh: Special Collections; University of Exeter: Library and Information Service; University of Huddersfield: Archives; University of Hull: Archives; University of Liverpool Library; University of Sussex (UK): Library, Special Collections; University of the Arts (Chelsea College of Art and Design); University of Wales Swansea; University of York Library; Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; Women's Archive of Wales/ Archif Menywod Cymru; Women's History Network (WHN).