Peter Kendrew Fox (born 23 March 1949) is a British professional librarian. After eight years service in Cambridge University Library he moved to Dublin as deputy librarian of Trinity College in 1979; in 1984 he became College Librarian and Archivist. He became Librarian of the

Cambridge University Library Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge. It is the largest of over 100 libraries Libraries of the University of Cambridge, within the university. The library is a major scholarly resource for me ...

in 1994, a position he held for 15 years until his retirement in 2009. He has served on many public bodies concerned with libraries and archives. He was educated at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

(BA, 1971); the

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

(MA, 1973);

Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College, Cambridge is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield), Georg ...

(MA, 1976) and MA Dublin, 1984. In 2019, he was made an honorary fellow of

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

Personal life

He married Isobel McConnell in 1983 and they have two daughters.''Who's Who''; 2008

Publications

* 1973: ''Reader Instruction Methods in Academic Libraries''. Cambridge: University Library * 1983: ''Third International Conference on Library User Education: proceedings''; edited by Peter Fox and Ian Malley. Loughborough: INFUSE * 1986: ''Treasures of the Library: Trinity College Dublin''. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy * 1998: ''Cambridge University Library: the Great Collections''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (editor) * 2000: "The Librarians of Trinity College", in: Vincent Kinane, Anne Walshe, eds., ''Essays on the History of Trinity College Library, Dublin''. Dublin: Four Courts Press * 2014: ''Trinity College Library Dublin: A History''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

References

1949 births Living people Alumni of King's College London Alumni of the University of Sheffield Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge British librarians Fellows of Selwyn College, Cambridge Honorary Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Librarians of the Library of Trinity College Dublin Cambridge University Librarians Historians of libraries {{library-bio-stub