Sarah Thomas (librarian): Difference between revisions

 

== Career ==

 

== Accomplishments ==

She is the first woman to have held the position of Bodley's Librarian, and the second librarian (after her predecessor, [[Reginald Carr (librarian)|Reginald Carr]]) also to have been in charge of the university's integrated library service (known as "Oxford University Library Services" when it was established in 2000, but renamed "Bodleian Libraries" on March 2, 2010 – Bodley's 465th birthday).<ref name=BLS>{{cite web|url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/notices/2010_mar_02|title=OULS changes name to Bodleian Libraries|date=March 2, 2010|publisher=Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford|accessdate=June 18, 2011}}</ref><ref name=OULS>{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/libraries/index.html|publisher=University of Oxford|title=Libraries|date=April 1, 2011|accessdate=June 18, 2011}}</ref> Thomas, an American, is also the first foreign librarian to have run the Bodleian.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-doublefirst-at-the-bodleian-library-as-us-woman-takes-over-437195.html |title=A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman takes over |last=Garner |first=Richard |date=February 21, 2007 |accessdate=January 5, 2010 |work=[[The Independent]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208162856/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-doublefirst-at-the-bodleian-library-as-us-woman-takes-over-437195.html |archivedate=February 8, 2009 }}</ref> In an interview she gave shortly after taking up the position, she recalled visiting Oxford when she was working at the [[Library of Congress]] to speak at the [[Sheldonian Theatre]]. She said that she remembered thinking "I could just die then and be happy".<ref name=Today/> When recruitment consultants approached her about applying for the post and she saw the job description, she said, "it was love at first sight. It was everything I wanted to do, but bigger. Integration, the digital library, the estates programme, the opportunity to be inside a truly magnificent institution and have a role at a pivotal moment in its history – that was just too enticing for me."<ref name=Today>{{cite journal|url=http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2006-07/v19n3/01.shtml|title=New Broom at the Bod|journal=[[Oxford Today]]|publisher=Public Affairs Directorate, University of Oxford|first=Georgina|last=Ferry|volume=19|date=2007|accessdate=January 21, 2010|issue=3|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901082100/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2006-07/v19n3/01.shtml|archivedate=September 1, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

 

 

== Personal life ==

 

== References ==

 

{{Bodley's Librarians}}

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