University Librarian appointed
Posted on 3 February 1999
As University Librarian she will manage the University's library and information services in the main J B Morrell Library on the University's Heslington campus and the branch libraries at the King's Manor in York, and in Harrogate District Hospital. She also has responsibility for University Library staff in York District Hospital Library and York Minster Library. The University Library has around 80 full and part-time staff and contains over three-quarters of a million books, microform and audio visual materials and a wide range of electronic resources, including networked CD-ROM databases.
Elizabeth Heaps has been Acting Librarian at York since April 1997 when Dr Tom Graham left to become Librarian at the University of Newcastle. The University took this opportunity to consider the management structures of its academic information services - the Library and the Computing Service. After deciding that the services should not be converged, the University advertised the Librarian's post in November last year.
Elizabeth, who got the job amidst strong international competition, has worked in the University Library since 1976.