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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 > [log in to unmask] > > > ************************************************************************************ > > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ >