IIAV becomes Aletta!
On the 11th of August 2009, one day after the 80th anniversary of the death of Aletta Jacobs, the International Information Center and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV) changed its name to ‘Aletta, Institute for women’s history’. The website has also been totally revamped. One click is now all it takes to find all the information you need on women, women’s emancipation and women’s history.
More power to communicate
Our name has been changed to make us more recognisable and able to serve a broader public. This is why we have chosen a name with more power of communication, so women’s history won’t be forgotten.
Aletta Jacobs as role model
Our new name, Aletta, refers to the feminist role model, Aletta Jacobs, who, as the first female student and doctor at the end of the 19th century, created important breakthroughs for women. Breakthroughs are still needed in the present; there is a long way still to go in achieving women’s emancipation. Aletta seeks emancipation of women in all their diversity and focuses on three focal points: Emancipation, Heritage and Knowledge.
Google for women’s history
Our website has been completely renewed. With one search function, all our databases can be trawled. A ‘Google for women’s history’ is born!
Globally visible
Aletta has contributed her collection to an international information system, the Automatic Common Catalogue and is also visible in PiCarta and WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic catalogue. Not only Dutch researchers and student can access our sources, but anybody anywhere in the world.
