Series consists of an audio recording of a January 10, 2018 panel discussion with nine former volunteers with the Vancouver Women's Bookstore. The panel was moderated by Alexandra Bischoff and Vincent Tao. It formed part of a reunion celebration held at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery on the evening before the opening of the exhibition Beginning with the Seventies: Glut, which exhibited Bischoff's "Rereading Room," a reconstruction of the Vancouver Women's Bookstore.

The following text quoted from Alexandra Bischoff's digital records transfer form dated August 20, 2018:

This audio record was created on January 10, 2018 at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery - the day preceding the opening of the exhibition "Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT" (January 12 - April 8, 2018). For this exhibition, artist Alexandra Bischoff restaged the Vancouver Women's Bookstore as "Rereading Room," an interactive installation which includes a selection of the Bookstore's inaugural inventory. With the support of the Belkin Art Gallery, Bischoff held a reunion celebration with nine of the Bookstore's volunteers; this recording is from the reunion event.

Interviewed participants include volunteers that were involved in the organization throughout three decades of its existence, and represent a range of feminist concerns and perspectives. Many, in fact, met for the first time on this occasion. The opinions expressed within the interview are the participants own and do not necessarily reflect the policy of each individual involved, the Vancouver Women's Bookstore at large, or the Belkin Art Gallery.

Moderating the discussion with Bischoff is Vincent Tao, Librarian of Vancouver artist run centre 221A and Bischoff's collaborator and adviser for Rereading Room's first installation in 2016-17.

The Women's Bookstore collection consists of materials relating to the operation of several Vancouver women's organizations and reflects the issues that dominated the women's movement throughout the 1970s. Consistent with the community based nature of women's movements during this period, the scope and content of the collection reflects the diversity common to a phenomenon rather than the administrative and subject coherence found in records generated by a single organization. As such, the collection as whole gains its coherence due primarily to the interdependence rather than independence of the individual items to one another. This also applies to the records generated by autonomous organizations in the collection. While the different organizations should be regarded as distinct, a good deal of the records concern the communication between various organizations and women's groups across the country or identify issues of concern to a broad range of organizations. Thus, the collection as whole should be regarded as a record of a dynamic process in which a common ideology served to unify the aims of distinctive organizations, persons, and subjects.

The collection is comprised of the records of the Women's Bookstore, Women's Caucus, A Woman's Place, Transition House, the British Columbia Federation of Women and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Includes constitutions, minutes, reports, correspondence, position papers, and sound recordings. Also includes newsletters from women's centres across British Columbia and Canada, subject files, and an assortment of feminist publications.

Series consists of a collection of feminist newspapers, journals, and newsletters documenting the women's movement in North America. Includes publications from British Columbia and the rest of Canada, the United States, and some examples from Australia, and England. Includes fairly extensive runs of issues of Kinesis (file 39, 1974-1987), Majority Report (file 47, 1973-1977), Off Our Backs (file 63, 1970-1980), and The Other Woman (file 67, 1972-1976).

Series consists of files relating to a number of issues, activities, and areas of interest to the women's movement in North America. Files contain material on such diverse topics as birth control, socialism, pornography, rape and beauty pageants. Also includes files on organizations, groups, and movements in the fight for women's rights, such as the Younger Lesbian Association, Women Against the Budget, Vancouver Rape Relief, Concerned Citizens for Choice on Abortion, the Childcare Occupation Forces, and others. Includes articles, clippings, newsletters, academic papers, reports, posters, calendars, and ephemera.

Sub-series consists of reference files relating general subjects.

Series consists of records relating to the Vancouver Transition House, and other transition houses in British Columbia. Transition houses were set up to offer a refuge for women and children forced to leave their homes due to violent and abusive situations. The goal of the transition houses was to secure the safety and health of the women and children in their care, and to ensure that they not return to unresolved and dangerous situations. Includes academic papers, articles, briefs, correspondence, minutes and publications.