On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:32:28 -0000 Ian Winship <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> List members may well have seen that the new BL Chief Exec is to be Lynne
> Brindley from Leeds University
> (http://www.bl.uk/information/pr2000/brindley.html)
> I found it interesting that the Guardian's headline
> (http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,134697,00.html)
> is 'Woman to head British Library', not 'Librarian to head British Library'
> whereas Yahoo (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000209/23/9zyt4.html) (from the
> Scotsman) is more concerned with the media person the press expected to get
> the job.
While The Times is more concerned with old stereotypes:
"They are dried-up spinsters in bulletproof tweeds. The only dates they have are
embossed on their rubber stamps. They have nothing to excite them except the
occasional stiff fine. And the nearest they get to romances is lending the
latest Mills and Boon to similar saddoes. Yes, lady librarians have a dismal
reputation"
(http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?999)
Lesha
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