Myra Olswang was born in South Africa and studied librarianship at Wits. She immigrated to Israel with her husband, Les, in 1968.

Myra worked for many years as the librarian in the Ramat Hasharon High school, and later as the Information Officer at Scitex/Creo/Kodak. In her last position at Kodak Myra was the webmaster for the Kodak worldwide Intranet.

Myra has 3 children and ten grandchildren who keep her happily busy.

She is now the volunteer webmaster for ESRAmagazine.