Profile: Christine Fyfe

Christine Fyfe

doi:10.1629/20150

Abstract

Christine is a well-known figure in UKSG circles. Not only is she a past Chair of the Group, she has also acted as Conference Organizer and, all in all, has been a major contributor to the ongoing development and success of the Group. Christine is currently University Librarian at the University of Leicester but she will shortly take up a significant new challenge – that of Pro Vice-Chancellor at Leicester for a four-year period. Christine is the first PVC not to come from an academic department and only the second woman. So what was the path to her success?

Highlights

Christine is a well-known figure in UKSG circles
At the age of 15, was as a ‘Saturday girl’ in her local public library – a small village library – where the deputy librarian was highly stereotypical, knew the stock by heart and was loved by all the customers for the help she gave them. This was her first lesson in the importance of customer service in libraries and she admits that, even today, she sometimes draws on experiences learned in those early days in the village library
Christine left school with three A levels and went to Bristol to read English Literature. She says of the English Department that at that time it was a tremendous department with some high profile academics working there

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Introduction

Christine is a well-known figure in UKSG circles. is she a past Chair of the Group, she has acted as Conference Organizer and, all in all, has been a major contributor to the ongoing development and success of the Group. Christine is currently University Librarian at the University of Leicester but she will shortly take up a significant new challenge – that of Pro Vice-Chancellor at Leicester for a four-year period. Christine is the first PVC not to come from an academic department and only the second woman. It seems that from a fairly early age Christine was destined to enter the library profession.

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