From Women's clubs to Womyn's collectives, the University Libraries offer a wide range of materials to support research in gender and cultural history. Here are a few highlights from Special Collections' guide to Manuscript Resources for Women's Studies and beyond:

The collections of women's clubs, societies, and organizations are especially rich. While you may be thinking garden clubs and tea parties, these include political organizations, such as the records of the Arkansas Woman's Suffrage Association and the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, sororities and honor societies such as Delta Delta Delta and Delta Kappa Gamma, and professional organizations such as the Fayetteville Business and Professional Women's Club Scrapbooks and the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association Records.

The Arkansas Cookbook collection offers more than 1,000 hard-to-find community, advertising, church, and club publications, dating from 1929 to the present day. Here you will find such classics as Pel-Freeze Rabbit Recipes, Burnt Offerings, and Don't Sit in... Cook Out!. As many chuckles as these clever titles offer, the books serve as important documents of the food, foodways, social history, and culture of Arkansas. Read more about this collection in a 2008 Research Frontiers article.

The Fayetteville Women's Library was founded by Diana Woodall and "Guthrie'' (the publisher of Up and Coming, a Fayetteville feminist/lesbian newsletter) in 1982 to provide access to publications concerning women, particularly feminists and lesbians. The materials in Special Collections' Manuscript Collection 1180 include books, periodicals, reprints, clippings, and other vertical file material on general subjects concerning women, including women's rights, abortion rights, health, and violence against women. Files also pertain to local and regional feminist and lesbian activities. The balance of the collection consists of books and feminist and lesbian periodicals from all over the United States. Books from this collection can be found both in Special Collections and in the Main circulating library. Researchers can browse a combined list of book and periodical titles in this collection by searching the subject "Fayetteville Women's Collection" in the library catalog.

Want to explore fine and performing arts? Reference encyclopedias, such as Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online, will offer summary articles on Buddhist art and music.

Naxos Music Library offers streaming audio of a variety of classical and world music, including this recording of ritual music from Tibet.

The Libraries offer several research databases to locate scholarly articles and other publications on Tibet. The Bibliography of Asian Studies indexes articles, book chapters, and and conference proceedings published since 1971 on all aspects of East, Southeast, and South Asia.

The Religion Index covers scholarly articles, books, and dissertations on all faiths; coverage of comparative religion is especially strong.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) holds extensive collections on Asia; you can browse many of these items in the CRL catalog. You can read more about CRL Tibetan resources in a recent issue of their newsletter.

CRL is a "library's library." Research libraries who are members of CRL can borrow rare research materials for their users. Read more about what CRL can do for you.