Catríona Cannon

Trinity College Dublin
Merton College, Oxford
University College London

OccupationLibrarian

Catríona Jeanne Elizabeth Cannon (born 1968) is a librarian and academic. Since June 2021, she has been librarian of Senate House and programme director of the Library Transformation Programme at the University of London. She had previously worked at University College Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, University of the Arts London and King's College London. Before moving to Senate House, she was deputy librarian of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (2014–2021), and vice-president of Reuben College, Oxford (2019–2021).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Early life and education

Cannon was born in 1968 in Paris, France.^[1] She was educated at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, a comprehensive secondary school in Dublin, Ireland.^[4] She studied French and Latin at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1990.^[1] From 1990 to 1992, she studied European literature at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree.^[1]^[4] Her MPhil thesis was titled "Neo-Latin elegy in Lyons, 1528-1540: a study" and was supervised by R.H.A. Jenkins.^[5] She was a trainee librarian at the Warburg Institute, and then undertook a Master of Arts (MA) degree in library and information studies at University College London, completing it in 1995.^[1]^[3]

Selected works

Heaney, Michael; Cannon, Catríona, eds. (2012). Transforming the Bodleian. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur. ISBN 978-3110289213.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Cannon, Catríona Jeanne Elizabeth, (born 29 May 1968), Librarian and Programme Director, Library Transformation Programme, University of London, since 2021". Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
^ "New Librarian for University of London's Senate House Library". University of London. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Catriona Cannon". Bodleian Libraries. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "40 Years: Merton Women 1980-2020: Catríona Cannon (1990)". Merton College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
^ Cannon, Catriona (1992). Neo-Latin elegy in Lyons, 1528-1540: a study (MPhil). University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 March 2023.