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Direct linkMcDowell, Kate – Library Quarterly, 2009
Women who promoted library services to children in the United States in the late nineteenth century introduced the systematic use of survey research on library practice to the field of professional librarianship. They created a series of qualitative survey-based reports, the "Reading of the Young" reports, which were presented at ALA conferences…
Descriptors: Females, Library Science, Library Services, Library Research
Baum, Christina D. – 1992
The research outlined in this book traces the impact of various kinds of feminism on the thought and political agenda of American library women from 1965 through 1985. Chapter 1 focuses on the debate within librarianship regarding the influence of feminism on the profession. Chapter 2 outlines the differences between the two most prominent…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Employed Women, Females, Feminism
Grotzinger, Laurel A.; And Others – 1994
This document presents three essays which challenge the image of women librarians as passive and subservient; reexamine the feminine ethic of caring; and document the power of a pervasive women's network that was generational as well as hierarchical and social. The first paper, "Invisible, Indestructible Network: Women and the Diffusion of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Agents, Females, Higher Education
Backlash, Backwater, or Back to the Drawing Board: Feminist Thinking and Librarianship in the 1990s.
Pritchard, Sarah – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1994
Discusses the feminist perspective of librarianship, including following key issues: salaries, pay equity, and occupational segregation; faculty status, professional education, and recruitment; access to information; technology; and sociology of the workplace. A number of myths relating to this topic are addressed, and a bibliography of 18 recent…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consciousness Raising, Critical Thinking, Employed Women
Download full textSeidelin, Susanne, Ed.; Hamilton, Stuart, Ed. – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (NJ1), 2005
The IFLA/FAIFE World Report Series is unique. It is the only source based on a systematic data collection process that provides an overview of how libraries around the world are tackling barriers to freedom of access to information and freedom of expression. This year's edition includes 84 country reports which detail the extent of Internet access…
Descriptors: Freedom, Access to Information, Laws, Federal Legislation
