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In related news, it's interesting to point out that out of about ten
top management positions at Karen's former place of employment (and
mine), the California Digital Library, only two are held by men.
Roy

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Johnston, Leslie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Karen Coyle
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:59 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> 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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