Just looking for a place to start? Here’s my rundown of several great posts in response to the “Not Your Grandmother’s Librarian” nonsense.
This index was last updated on June 27, 2019.
Abramowicz, Dina (David Levy and Kristen Hogan)
Ahern, Mary Eileen (link)
Andrews, Regina Anderson (Gayatri Singh)
Arbuthnot, May Hill (reblogged from University of Iowa Special Collections)
Arnot, Jean (David J. Jones)
Askew, Sarah Byrd (link, suggested by Maria Monteagudo)
Auer, Margaret (Julia Eisenstein)
Avram, Henriette (Violet Fox)
Bailey, Louise (link)
Ball, Helen (reblogged from Miami University Special Collections)
Bates, Mary Ellen (Garrett Eastman)
Beck, Clare (Lorna Peterson)
Belpré, Pura (link)
Black, Jean P. (Carolee Harrison)
Bloom, Cyndi (link from Tracy Wasserman)
Boaz, Martha (Sue Kamm)
Bolden, Ethel Martin (Georgette Mayo)
Bow, Lily Lawrence (Katherine Fleming)
Breed, Clara (Kayo Denda and Emily-Jane Dawson)
Braverman, Miriam (Kathleen Weibel)
Browning, Eliza Gordon (Jackie Nytes)
Bruton, Quintilla Geer (Angie Neely-Sardon)
Butler, Susan Dart (Georgette Mayo)
Callard, Carole (Anne Hudson)
Carson, Jessie, and the CARD librarians (link)
Carter, Mary J. (Arlene Luster) (update)
Chan, Lois Mai (Melissa Freiley)
Clatworthy, Linda M. (Nancy Horlacher)
Clayton, Mayme Agnew (reblogged from My Daguerreotype Librarian)
Cole, Joan (Andrew P. Jackson)
Colwell, Hilda Eileen (reblogged from OUP Academic)
Connell, Wessie Gertrude (Deborah S. Davis)
Cooke, Eileen Delores (reblogged from Hennepin County Library)
Coolbrith, Ina (Paula Lichtenberg)
Cordingley, Nora Evelyn (Keith Muchowski)
Cotera, Martha P. (reblogged from OUP Academic)
Countryman, Gratia (Kellian, Clink, Kaia Sievert, and Hennepin County Library)
Davenport, Iowa’s Female Voters (Sarah Wesson)
Davis, Debra (Lisa Petriello)
Dawson, Alma (Kathleen de la Peña McCook)
del Toro Fulladosa, Josefina (Sujei Lugo) (additional post in Spanish from Mariam Feliciano-Garcia)
Delaney, Sadie Peterson (Charlcie Pettway Vann)
Doren, Electra C. (Gwen E. Owen, Tish Wilson, & Nancy Horlacher)
Dosa, Marta L. (Fred Stoss)
Douie, Vera (Suzanne Schultz Pick)
Drain-Bailey, Leaonead Pack (Lorna Peterson)
Everett Woman’s Book Club (Lisa Labovitch)
Farmann, Kathleen (Susan Hamilton and Beth Given)
Farmer, Frances (Randi Flaherty)
Field, Carolyn W. (Christopher A. Brown)
Ford, Edith (Anne Kozak and Heather Booth)
Foster, Edith (Diane Fulkerson)
Franklin, Aurelia Elizabeth Whittington (Lorna Peterson)
Freitag, Ruth S. (Connie Carter) (with bonus Bibliography from Jennifer Parsons)
Fyan, Loleta Dawson (Eileen Palmer and Kathleen Weibel)
Gadsden, Charlyne (Andrew P. Jackson)
Garza de Cortés, Oralia (Barbara Immroth and Kathleen McCook)
Gaver, Mary Virginia (Peggy Sullivan)
Gillis Girls (Kim Brown)
Gittings, Barbara (Ashley C. Huser)
Gleason, Eliza Valeria Atkins (Teresa Ashley)
Gray, Dorothy Peyton (Tommy Vinh Bui)
Greer, Glyndon Flynt (link)
Guerrier, Edith (Margaret Bausman)
Gunter, Lilian (Laureen Jacobs)
Hagemeyer, Alice Lougee (Lisa Petriello)
Hall, Evelyn (Andrew P. Jackson)
Hallauer, Josephine Pardee (Dan Howard)
Hammerstein, Gretchen (Betty Anne Reiter)
Harris, Deborah R. (Otranto Road Regional Branch Library)
Hayden, Carla D. (Angel Batiste)
—>Dr. Carla Hayden’s nomination as Librarian of Congress approved
—>Dr. Carla Hayden sworn in as Librarian of Congress
Henne, Frances (Peggy Sullivan)
Herrig, Inez Ratekin (Marcella Sherfy Walter, via Martha Kohl)
Hewins, Caroline M. (Bridget Quinn-Carey)
Hoffman, Olive (Mary Rueff)
Horace, Lillian B. (kYmberly Keeton)
Horn, Zoia (link)
Howey, Laura (Annie Hanshaw, via Martha Kohl)
Hudgins, Mary Dengler (Joshua Cobbs Youngblood)
Hunter-Morton, Ismoon (Lisa Petriello)
Hurd, Cynthia (links to Post and Courier article)
Hurwitz, Esther Weaver (Deborah F. Vaden)
Hussey, Lora (Mary Rueff)
Ideson, Julia (Caroline Castillo)
Isom, Mary Frances (Janet Irwin)
Jacobs, Alma Smith (link)
—>Alma Smith Jacobs inducted into Gallery of Outstanding Montanans
Jarrett, Gladys W. (John Drobnicki)
Jenkins, Barbara Williams (Dr. Theodosia T. Shields and Doris Johnson)
Jenkins, Betty (Lorna Peterson)
Jones, Clara Stanton (Lorna Peterson)
Kadanoff, Diane Gordon (Sherrie Bergman)
Keating, Anne (Karmen Beecroft)
Kelly, Ednita (links)
Kelso, Tessa L. (Rachel Dobkin)
Keogh, Pat (link)
Kidder, Ida (Tiah Edmonson-Morton)
Lancaster, Lucy Lee (Rebecca K. Miller)
Lashbrook, Lora (Susan Hamilton and Beth Given)
Lawrence, Marie (Susan Hamilton and Beth Given)
Leach, Camilla (Paula Seeger)
Lee, Mollie (link)
Leeson, Ida Emily (Anna Fidgeon)
Lipow, Anne (Genny Engel)
Mack, Sara R. (Dolores Fidishun)
Macrina, Alison (anonymous)
Mann, Margaret (Violet Fox)
Marot, Helen (Kathleen de la Peña McCook)
Márquez, María Teresa (Miguel Juárez)
Massee, May (Sharon McQueen)
Mathews, Virginia (Peggy Sullivan)
Maxwell, Ora (Jim Kershner)
Mayfield, Mary (Mary Rueff)
Mazique, Jewell (Jessamyn West/Wikipedia)
McCook, Kathleen de la Peña (Alicia K. Long)
McKissack, Mable (link)
McPherson, Linda (Asheley Bryson)
Miles, Mildred (Christine George)
Millender, Dharathula “Dolly” Hood (Edith Campbell)
Molz, Jean Barry (Jim DeArmey and Deborah Wheeler)
Morris, Effie Lee (Pat Toney)
Morris, Christine Wigfall (Kathryn Johnston)
Mott, Margaret (Sue Cutrona)
Nelson, Maude Langhorne (Nandhitha Agaram)
Newell, Eliza Des Saure (Nono Burling)
Nicholson, Jewel (Andrew P. Jackson)
Nicolescu, Suzine Har (Jeremiah Paschke-Wood)
Olcott, Frances Jenkins (Debbie Priore)
Osborne, Nancy (Tina Chan)
Pack Horse Library Project (Jennifer Koth)
Patton, Jane VanDike (Laura Moree)
Pearce, Julia Roselle (Lori Goetsch)
Penfield, Lida (Tina Chan)
Perry, Eva (Leigh Sanders)
Pierce, Cornelia Marvin (Lindsey Stafford)
Piggot, Sylvia (Angel Batiste)
Peabody, Elizabeth (link)
Petty, Annie (Erin Lawrimore)
Porter Wesley, Dorothy Burnett (Lydia Willoughby)
Radford, Wilma (David J. Jones)
Raney, Olivia (Leigh Sanders)
Rappaport, Ruth (Kate Stewart)
Rathbone, Josephine Adams (Jennifer Smith)
Rider, Alice Damon (Liz Argentieri)
Rothrock, Mary “Topie” Utopia (Donald B. Reynolds, Jr.)
Rowland, Dorothy Esther (Karen Canary)
Rucks, Doris (link)
Rudd, Amanda (Jason Alston & BCALA)
Ryan, Linda (Brenda Shea and Sue Considine)
Santee, Eva (Sue Vanlaanen)
Schuman, Patricia Glass (Emily Wagner)
Seajay, Carol, and the Feminist Bookstore Network (Kristen Hogan)
Sellen, Betty-Carol “BC” (Polly Thistlethwaite)
Sengstacken, Agnes (Carol Ventgen)
Shapiro, Beth J. (Agnes Widder)
Siebert, Sara L. (“Bunny”) (Elizabeth DeCoster)
Smith, Henrietta M. (Vicki Gregory and Maria Treadwell)
Smith, Zelia Anne (Angela M. Vanden Elzen)
Sorenson, Loretta (Cathy Smargo, John Fredrick, & Megan Heady)
Sosin, Susan (Tracy Wasserman)
Spain, Frances Landers (Julie Cummins)
Spiegel, Clara Gatzert (reblogged from Central Idaho History)
Stearns, Lutie E. (link)
Stevenson, Eleanor (Ellen) Sharp (Nono Burling)
Stickley, Mary Louise (Janice Fox)
Stokes, Marion (link)
Straw, Marian Glenn (Andrew P. Jackson)
Suckley, Margaret “Daisy” (Keith Muchowski)
Sullivan, Maud Durlin (John Sandstrom) (additional, longer post from Laureen Jacobs)
Taylor, Nettie (Joyce Latham) (update)
Thompson Donlan, Mary (reblogged from Cleveland Public Library)
Ticer, Winifred Fleming (Jeri Toney Davis)
Titcomb, Mary L. (Jessi Zimmerman)
Thornton, Juanita E. (Katelyn Browne)
Trezpacz (or Trzepacz), Martha (reblogged from Rochester Regional Library Council)
Turner, Jane W. (reblogged from Smithsonian Libraries)
Van Arsdale, Jane (Sue Cutrona)
Van Winkle, Elva (Maria Harris and Katelyn Browne)
Vang, Vang (Raymond Pun)
Walls, Esther (reblogged from Iowa Women’s Archive)
Walton, Genevieve M. (Michael V. Barnes)
Warren, Althea (Sue Kamm)
Weaver, Annie Bell (Suzanne K. Durham)
Wolpert, Ann (Garrett Eastman)
Wood, Miriam (Bel Outwater)
Webber, Clara (Jill Patterson)
Welch, Janet (Mamie Ney)
West, Celeste (Tina Perricone)
Westbrooks, Allegra (link submitted by Skip Auld)
Wilson, Mabel Zoe (Tamara Belts)
Woman’s Round Lake Improvement Society (Carol L. Sheffer)
Women of Wyoming (Cynthia Hughes)
Yocom, Frances Lydia (Lorna Peterson)
Zerzanek, Evelyn (Kathleen Weibel and Carol Hoke)
