In 1973, Sherrill Cheda, Phyllis Yaffe and Barbara Clubb thought it was odd that most librarians were women, but most people who ran libraries were men. They decided to publish something that would take women seriously. Women who were speaking truths that had never been aired. In Emergency Librarian, lesbians, disabled women, and women of colour wrote articles and had their books reviewed. And library workers wrote about how to break the glass ceiling. Snap!