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Women’s Outreach and Advocacy Center

Women’s Center Library

The Library is open to all faculty, staff and students. You are invited to review our collection of books, magazines, resource guides, periodicals, pamphlets and brochures. The library has been built through donations from faculty and staff, and purchases by the Women’s Outreach and Advocacy Center. The Library carries a variety of best-selling novels, self-help and inspirational books that include:

  • A Day Late and a Dollar Short
  • Beloved
  • Domestic Violence: Why Women Stay
  • Dr. Atkin’s NEW Diet Revolution
  • How to Trace Your Family Tree
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Passages: Predictable Crisis of Adult Life
  • Passing by Samaria
  • Poetry and Consciousness
  • Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families
  • The Hours
  • The Men of Brewster Place
  • The Pagoda
  • The Soloist
  • What Happy Working Mothers Know

Visitors can check the books out of the Women’s Outreach and Advocacy Center for a short period of time. Magazines, videos, CDs and cassettes can be reviewed at the Center. The Center has a supply of brochures on domestic abuse, sexual assault, women’s health, eating disorders, gender issues, business development, substance abuse treatment, and various other resources that are free to visitors. Also, the Center has published an online Women’s Resource Directory that provides information about valuable resources within Philadelphia and its surrounding counties.