The 50th anniversary exhibition of the Women's History Archives opened at the National Library on October 17, 2025. The exhibition features 18 women from the Women's History Archives's collection who worked in a variety of jobs in the 20th century. One of them was Ingibjörg Guðlaugsdóttir (1887–1971), farmhand and doctor’s assistant. Her collection is the November highlight of the month at the National and University Library, where the Archives operates from.

Ingibjörg Guðlaugsdóttir was born in Sogn in the municipality of Kjós in southwestern Iceland. She was a farmhand in her homestead as a young woman and in her early thirties got a placement with her relative, Guðbjörg Guðmundsdóttir. Guðbjörg was married to Páll Kolki, who had recently acquired the position of district doctor for the Vestmannaeyjar islands, and Ingibjörg accompanied their family for half a century. She lived in their home in Vestmannaeyjar and later in their home in Blönduós in the north - in the summer she visited her childhood home in Kjós. Ingibjörg contributed to the childcare and housekeeping, cleaning, washing and sewing, and furthermore assisted Páll with his doctoral duties, especially when it came to anaesthetising patients before operation. For more than twenty years she oversaw most of the anaesthetic work at the hospital in Blönduós. Páll wrote that she had been an agile anaesthetist, skilled at gaining the trust of the patients and at calming their fears.

The photograph of Ingibjörg is from the National Museum.