Peter Kendrew Fox (born 23 March 1949) is a British professional librarian. After eight years service in Cambridge University Library he moved to Dublin as deputy librarian of Trinity College in 1979; in 1984 he became College Librarian and Archivist.^[1] He became Librarian of the Cambridge University Library in 1994, a position he held for 15 years until his retirement in 2009.^{[2][3] [4]} He has served on many public bodies concerned with libraries and archives.^[5] He was educated at King's College London (BA, 1971); the University of Sheffield (MA, 1973); Selwyn College, Cambridge (MA, 1976) and MA Dublin, 1984. In 2019, he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin.^[6]

Personal life

He married Isobel McConnell in 1983 and they have two daughters.^[7]

Publications

• 1973: Reader Instruction Methods in Academic Libraries. Cambridge: University Library
• 1983: Third International Conference on Library User Education: proceedings; edited by Peter Fox and Ian Malley. Loughborough: INFUSE
• 1986: Treasures of the Library: Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy ISBN 978-0-901714-45-9
• 1998: Cambridge University Library: the Great Collections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-62636-6 (editor)
• 2000: "The Librarians of Trinity College", in: Vincent Kinane, Anne Walshe, eds., Essays on the History of Trinity College Library, Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press ISBN 1-85182-467-7
• 2014: Trinity College Library Dublin: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN 978-1107011205