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	<< Back "DAWN" Newsletter of The DAWN CENTER DAWN HANDBOOKS Sawako Nagatomo The Dawn Center has issued two new handbooks compiling the know-how in project administration and achievements in research and study (available only in Japanese). Since the enactment of the NPO law in 1998, more women have obtained corporate status. This handbook contains useful information about how to manage organizations and promote activities. In addition, the handbook presents views of NPOs, and examines, through case studies, how the NPO law has triggered the growth of women's groups. It aims to promote women's empowerment and enable them to establish mature NPO groups. It also provides guidelines for administrative staff and women's facilities in their collaboration with NPOs. part 1. Organizational Development: Examines the need for organizational development from a genderequal point of view Provides advice on expanding local activities to larger projects in three areas: juggling aspirations and funding; examining NPO activities and roles; exploring staff consciousness and roles part 2. Case Studies Introduces 10 women's groups and NPOs This handbook was compiled by the librarians in charge of information counseling at the Dawn Center Information Library, drawing from the library's experiences in six years information services. It carries such articles as information counseling know-how, building up structures, and skill training programs for the librarians and can be used as a manual for those public facilities offering special information to connect "women and information." part 1. Connecting women and information What is information counseling?; How to arrange the situation;Trying to grasp users' needs; Roles and tasks part 2. Practice in information counseling and main points First step in information counseling; How to determine users' needs for information; Getting to the Crux in reference interviews part 3. Musts in information counseling Awareness of essential information resources; Tools; Database to support information counseling; Utilizing human resources in the organization; Must-dos for information service providers part 4. Heightening the service's abilities Back issues of "Dawn" 1996 "Introduction of Dawn Center" 1997 "Japanese Women Seek Solidarity with Asian Women" 1998 "The Present State of Violence toward Women in Japan" 1999 "Women's Bodies and Women's Health" 2000 "Women and Politics" 2001 "Women and Work" Page Top Copyright (C) 2007 DawnCenter. All Rights Reserved.