• Books and grey literature
  Over 85,000 volumes
  Both non-fiction and fiction
  Dutch and foreign
  Covering all aspects of the position of women in both past (the oldest book is dated 1578) and present (current research, papers, government reports and leaflets).
• Periodicals
  Approx. 500 subscriptions of which 222 are Dutch and 268 are foreign titles
  Articles (23,000) are selected from these periodicals and provided with annotations.
• Past volumes of women's magazines, both national and international.
  570 metres.
  The oldest magazines date back to the early nineteenth century.
  Some of the magazines, in particular those published between 1870 and 1940, are available on microfilm.
• Thematic dossiers
  75 metres of dossiers containing pamphlets, press releases and announcements
• Newspaper clippings
  22 metres clippings from five Dutch daily newspapers
  Biographical dossiers with clippings on 7,400 women
• Archives of women's organisations and individual women
  1000 metres
  This collection contains approximately 400 archives dating from 1870 to the present day, and reflects the character and history of the Dutch women's movement.
  In addition there is a collection of unpublished egodocuments of 169 women: diaries, letters, memoirs and autobiographies.
• Posters, photographs (18,000), slides and postcards
  Part of this material is historical, but the IIAV also has extensive visual materials from the start of the second feminist movement.
  Most Dutch posters have been photographed and reproduced as slides.
• A database of addresses
  available at the IIAV, which will provide a social map of the women's movement in the Netherlands; international addresses of women's information services and resources.
• CD-ROM's
  Women's Resources International
  Women's Studies on Disc
  Vrouw en Recht

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