John Jolliffe (librarian)

John William Jolliffe (15 July 1929 – 30 March 1985) was a British librarian and academic who was Bodley's Librarian (head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) from 1982 until his death.

John Jolliffe
Born(1929-06-15)15 June 1929
Died30 March 1985(1985-03-30) (aged 55)
NationalityBritish
Education>University College London
OccupationLibrarian
EmployerUniversity of Oxford
Known forServing as Bodley's Librarian from 1982 until his death
Spouse(s)Beryl Bailey (1955–his death)
Children3

Life

Jolliffe was educated at Hastings Grammar School before studying French at University College London.[1] He was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum in 1955, moving to Oxford to become Keeper of Catalogues at the Bodleian Library. Jolliffe also married his wife Beryl Bailey in that year, with whom he would go on to have three daughters. In 1970; he was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford from 1971 onwards. He became Bodley's Librarian in 1982 at a time of budget cuts, having earlier been Acting Librarian.[1][2]

His publications included various articles on his specialist area of 16th-century French literature.[1][2] He was also an early leader in the use of computers for cataloguing old books; between 1968 and 1974, he directed a project examining proposals for cataloguing early books in the university libraries of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, and the report was published in 1974 as Computers and Early Books.[3]

Joliffe was involved in the development of the use of computers in the Bodleian Library. He died in 1985 aged 55 after a short illness, aged 55.[1] On his death, his colleague Julian Roberts became Acting Librarian at the Bodleian.

gollark: I mean, yes, but if you don't assume those you can't really... do anything?
gollark: Explaining is hard even if you do know things, sometimes.
gollark: I think I remember his name from something.
gollark: To the IQ test? I think I still have it around. I was trying to move it from Microsoft Forms to my broken JS-based quiz thing.
gollark: I'm very intelligent. I made my own IQ test and it said I had an IQ of 600.

References
  1. "Mr John Jolliffe". The Times. 1 April 1985. p. 14. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  2. "Jolliffe, John William". Who Was Who, 1920–2008. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  3. Koller, Herbert R. (1975). "Computers and early books, anonymous. London: Mansell, 131 p. (1974)". Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 26 (5): 308–309. doi:10.1002/asi.4630260512. ISSN 1097-4571.


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