About Sarah E. Thomas
Sarah Thomas is Bodley’s Librarian.
Before joining the University of Oxford in February 2007, she served as the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University from 1996 until 2007.
In a career spanning 35 years, Thomas has catalogued books in Harvard University's Widener Library, taught German at the Johns Hopkins University, managed Library Coordination at the Research Libraries Group in California, served as the Associate Director for Technical Services at the National Agricultural Library, and directed both the Cataloging Directorate and the Public Service Collections Directorate at the Library of Congress.
In 2007 Thomas was awarded the Melvil Dewey Medal for creative leadership of the highest order in the fields of library management, library training, cataloguing and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship.
Thomas earned a Ph.D. in German Literature from Johns Hopkins University in 1983, writing her dissertation on the topic of author-publisher relations. She received her Bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1970 and a Master of Science in Library Science from Simmons College in 1973.
Related links
- Dewey Medal Recipients
- About Melvil Dewey
From the American National Biography
