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
>
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> Lesha Fossey
> Assistant Librarian, Circulation Services
> University of Exeter
> Stocker Road TEL: 01392 263867
> Exeter EX4 4PT FAX: 01392 263871
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