Alice Prochaska

Alice Prochaska has been University Librarian at Yale since August 2001. She received both her BA and PhD (D.Phil.) in Modern History from the University of Oxford. From 1984 to 1992 she was the administrator and deputy to the director of the University of London's Institute of Historical Research. In 1992 she became Director of Special Collections at the British Library, with responsibility for the UK national collections of Maps, Manuscripts, Music, the National Sound Archive, the Oriental and India Office Collections, and Philatelic Collections. Alice has served on various national bodies in the UK and North America. These include, in the UK: the government commission to design a national curriculum in history for the UK, the Royal Historical Society (as a vice-president), Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust, the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) panel for History, 2000-01, and (as chair) the National Council on Archives. She was also a member of the Board of Governors of London Guildhall University. Her roles in North America include chairing committees of the Association of Research Libraries, and she is currently chair of the Board of the Center for Research Libraries. She lectures regularly in North America, the UK and Europe, and was formerly chair of the International Federation of Library Associations section on Rare Books and Manuscripts. Her publications include books and articles on history, archives and library-related issues. Awards include Honorary Fellowships at Royal Holloway, University of London and at the Institute of Historical Research, and the JJ Astor Award in Library and Information Science from the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation in Berlin. Her full biography (including service in various capacities at Yale) can be found here: http://www.library.yale.edu/about/librarian/