For my Emerging Leaders project last summer, we collected oral histories
for LIRT for their 35th Anniversary.
https://sites.google.com/site/lirtoralhistories/

~heather


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Ed Sperr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
> > [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net
> > ph: 1-510-540-7596
> > m: 1-510-435-8234
> > skype: kcoylenet
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