Skills Bank

THE RESOURCE CENTRE

by Sema Aksoy

The CCLOW Resource Centre is an integral part of the Skills Bank and the organization itself. It is located at 692 Coxwell Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.

Our Resource Centre has a purpose of gathering, organizing and sharing materials and information related to women's learning, education and training, and to fulfill the need for a centralized set of resources with this focus.

CCLOW hired two women to organize the collection, to catalogue it and to develop it in such a way that it can be accessed by the members of the organization. Shirley Brazer, the librarian and Gheorghina Szasz, the librarian technician have been assisted by an advisory committee which is composed of women who are managing collections themselves. Frieda Forman of Women's Educational Resource Centre, Joan Fulford of North York Library and Judy Tobin of T.V. Ontario have been helpful in decisions regarding acquisitions.

Shirley Brazer, who is a member of the CCLOW Skills Bank and Resource Centre Committee, is a woman with wide variety of interests. She has done two of her degrees in the area of Library Science. She is also a certified travel consultant.

Prior to coming to CCLOW, Shirley worked as a travel consultant and a free-lance information consultant. In addition to her consulting job, she was able to pursue a career in sales. Her interest in children's literature has enabled her to acquire experience in this area and gave her the courage to try out her entrepreneurial skills.

Shirley believes that she will continue pursuing her variety of interests through her career involvements. She will be returning to her free-lance work upon leaving CCLOW.

Gheorghina Szasz, who is our library technician, is a native of Rumania who came to Canada two years ago via Israel. Gheorghina is a graduate of the University of Timisoara and the University of Cluj-Napoca, Rumania.

Her experiences in Haifa Institute of Technology and in Bucharest Institute of Technology as a library technician, bibliographer and cataloguer makes Gheorghina a skillful and a competent member of the Resource Centre.

Gheorghina will be helping to further develop our collection and facilitate its use by our members within the next few months.

The Skills Bank is happy to be working in cooperation with the Resource Centre. We will be pleased to have you write to the Skills Bank coordinator with any questions that you may have on women's educational issues and about our resource collection by completing the Information Requester Guideline (blue form) and returned it to us.