Today Library Journal runs an interesting article about “the women who drive library technology” — a group of confessed tech enthusiasts who oversee college libraries, archiving projects, and statewide consortia.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the piece points out how often professors told many of the women that they were unfit for jobs in engineering and computer science. But it also demonstrates how far library schools have come in embracing technology and information-literacy training. Anita Cook, the director of library systems for a technology consortium called OhioLINK, describes how she first drew a link between computer science and library work:
When she entered library school…[Ms.] Cook found few computing options. So, she staffed the university’s computer help desk — the only woman there. She also wrote a computer program to index newspapers, a product that earned her professor money. In library jobs, Cook recalls, “There were fewer men, but they were better paid. That used to tick me off, but it’s changed.”
—Brock Read
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