Date sent: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:05:19 -0000
Subject: RE: Reporting the New BL Chief Executive
From: Morfydd Selley <[log in to unmask]>
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Send reply to: Morfydd Selley <[log in to unmask]>
Not this old chestnut again!! I think the image is perpetuated by
people going on about it all the time - if we just get on with our jobs
and ignore all the references to the stereotype, maybe it will just
die out!! (She says hopefully...)
> Re: Lesha's message:
>
> I feel quite stunned that the rest of the world still views us librarians as
> shrivelled up old women with our hair in a bun and the prescription tweed
> and twin sets! We should maybe have a Librarian's Fashion Parade, showing
> them what a trendy bunch we really are!!!! Is there still room at the
> London Bookfair for a catwalk???..........
>
> And if the rest of the world views us as spinsters, what about the men????
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lesha Fossey [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:22 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Reporting the New BL Chief Executive
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------
> > Lesha Fossey
> > Assistant Librarian, Circulation Services
> > University of Exeter
> > Stocker Road TEL: 01392 263867
> > Exeter EX4 4PT FAX: 01392 263871
> > EX4 4PT E-MAIL: [log in to unmask]
Denise Flowers
Quality Assurance Co-ordinator
Information Resources Centre
St. Mary's College
Waldegrave Road
Strawberry Hill
Twickenham
TW1 4SX
Tel: 020 8240 2304 (direct)
Fax: 020 8240 4270
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