with the Women's Library in London, I've used the WCML to research women and punk. The two collections are very different in many ways, but there is occasional overlap: Both have the entire run of Spare Rib for example. But if you wanted to research Margaret Ashton, suffragist, pacifist and first female city councillor in Manchester, then the WCML would probably be a key stop on your research journey. "We are recognised at home and abroad as one of Britain's most important collections of working class history. We are open for everyone to use without charge. The breadth and depth of the archives, books and artefacts makes the Library a vast and unique collection, capturing the stories and struggles of ordinary people's efforts to improve their world. Tony Benn has called us 'one of the greatest educational institutions in Britain'." They say on their website, adding: "Our founders Ruth and Eddie Frow started the Library in their own home, driven by the belief that working people should remember and value their own history. Together they rescued countless items which would have otherwise been lost to the future. In these turbulent times that history has never been more relevant - and the survival of the Library will depend on the generosity of our supporters." In the US, there is a wikispace devoted to women in libraries, which describes itself as being somewhere writers can review "books, films and other publications of interest to the feminist library community" Do we have a