Female participation in library education in Mexico (1916-1918)

Abstract

In this paper I will take a tour of the circumstances that women faced in the first decades of the 20th century to join a profession, in that time and space where there were few opportunities for them, and when exclusive schools for men and women were created to receive educational instruction according to their gender. The National School of Library Science and Archives (ENBA) opened its doors for men and women who worked in libraries and archives that depended on the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, opening a window to empirical librarians in order to receive formal library knowledge, already developed in other countries, and which made Library Science a discipline with its own theorists and a methodology of application and operation.
The invitation to attend this school was made equally to men and women to receive instruction in the National Library, and this invitation was also extended to educational agencies and the general public that met the requirements.