It is interesting to note that collecting the oral histories of library folks is something that at least two professional organizations have looked at. It might be worth using these as a model:

http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/oral_history.html
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/centennial/oralhistory.cfm

Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S.
Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer
St. George's University
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From: Johnston, Leslie <lesliej_at_nyob> 
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:54:56 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU 

I am very much with you, Karen, that we are not doing enough to capture our history. We definitely need to start an active oral history program.  This has been weighing on my mind a lot lately -- that there is a lot of history that people are not aware of.

Leslie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Karen Coyle
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:59 PM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Some women and computing resources
> 
> 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
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> m: 1-510-435-8234
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