All, I stumbled upon the conference publication [1] from a conference at U Minn's Charles Babbage Institute on women and computing. Not only is it excellent, but it has an entire chapter on librarians and computers. In fact, I don't think that chapter got it quite right, and I'm thinking that we somehow need to start capturing our own history, perhaps through interviews/oral histories. I've dreamed about doing that for the MELVYL system, before too many of us can't remember what day it is. The conference pages include a good bibliography [2]. And the CBI archive pages have great photos and other interesting historical information. [3] kc [1] http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Codes-Women-Leaving-Computing/dp/0470597194 [2] https://netfiles.umn.edu/users/tmisa/www/gender/literature.html [3] http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet