LISNews: Librarian News

Lynne Brindley has become the first professional librarian to head the British Library since it was formally separated from the British Museum in 1972. Read this story Here. From Yahoo! News (UK).

TWO strands of important news emerged from the British Library in London yesterday. The first was that Lynne Brindley had got the chief executive\'s job. The second was that James Boyle had not.

Ms Brindley, a university librarian and former management consultant, becomes the institution\'s first female chief executive.