Proposes using the female archetypes in mythology and in fairy tales as a means of understanding the sources of stereotypes in librarianship and dealing with them in a positive way.

Report by Monika Bargmann giving an overview about the conference "BuecherFrauenBibliotheken" (BooksWomenLibraries) that took place in November 2006 in Vienna. The conference dealt with the image of women librarians in fiction and motion pictures; women librarians who were discriminated against, displaced, or even murdered by fascist regimes in Austria; the history of women's employment in the Austrian national library; the project "Gipfelbibliothek"; and the important collection "library of hungarian women".

"Von Trinkflaschen, Bands, Postern und Lesezeichen. Ein Streifzug durch eine private Sammlung von Librariana" by Monika Bargmann. Source: Libreas 5 (2006)

This book is one of the lasting monuments of the library underground, though the contributors surely never imagined this kind of respectful archiving. Thirty years on, its mixture of wild-eyed idealism and bleary-eyed realism is still a testament of solidarity with the enthusiastic, disgruntled or just plain bolshy librarian

Report of an online-based seminar on "The role of women in libraries", having been conducted jointly by the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland (Austria) and the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (Germany) in 2002. Includes experiences with the used online platform and an overview of topics dealt with by the students; written by Monika Bargmann and Heike Merschitzka

Sarah M. Pritchard: "Feminist Thinking and Librarianship in the 1990s: Issues and Challenges"

bibliography "librarianship as a profession", compilation of articles about job descriptions, image & cliches, career opportunities, education & training, job titles, duties, salary, recruiting of female librarians and male librarians by Monika Bargmann