Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Jessamyn has a great post over at librarian.net about women and open source software projects. My favor quote is where she says
a woman with even a passing competency in this areana …is such an anomaly that people just stop and stare.
This is so true and what goes hand and hand with this is a lack [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
I was so excited when Jeremy Frumkin announced this on the code4lib list.
Oregon State University / Code4lib Scholarship for Women
The OSU / Code4lib Scholarship for Women will provide up to $1000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for one qualified attendee to the 2007 Code4lib conference. This scholarship is eligible to any woman interested [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Aug 29th, 2006 No Comments »
I can’t help at laugh at the irony of the fact that on the heels of me reading Roy Tennant’s Library Journal article on The Gender Gap in systems librarianship and Dorothea and Meredith’s recent posts on gender, libraries and tech that I found out the other female librarian in systems resigned. Sigh! I want [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
Dorothea has a nice post in response to Rachel’s query regarding what is being (publicly) said and not said about the gender issue in systems librarianship. Karen continues this thread with a great picture from her days in the Air Force. Both ladies points out that in private people are willing to say much more [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 14th, 2006 4 Comments »
Rachel Singer Gordon has chimed in with her thoughts on the gender imbalance in system librarianship issue. She makes some terrific points that I failed to mention. I think Rachel is very right when she says there are many factors as to why there seems to be lack of women in library tech. Techie women [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 1st, 2006 12 Comments »
So I’m hoping you’ve seen Karen, Jane, or Dorothea’s posts (prompted in part by LITA’s Top Tech Trends lack of women) about techie women in the library profession. I want to raise my voice in support for exactly what they are saying. Dorothea nails it on the head when she say:
So there isn’t just a [...]
