id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15042 Alexander, Jean Women's Work: Vision and Change in Librarianship; Women, Information, and the Future: Collecting and Sharing Resources Worldwide (Book Review) 1996-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1654 86 59 Mary Niles Maack, in Women As Vision- aries, Mentors, and Agents of Change, outlines the dismal regression of women library school faculty from the age of missionaries and mentors (1887-1923) through a transitional period of professionalization that began to exclude women (1923-1950) to the era of the mas- culine professoriate (1951-present). Another kind of missionary zeal char- acterizes Women, Information, and the Fu- ture: to empower women by organizing and disseminating information on legal rights, health, employment, politics, and the environment. cache/crl-15042.pdf txt/crl-15042.txt