Chief librarian to leave for Oxford
University Librarian Alice Prochaska announced Friday that she will resign next year to become principal of her alma mater, Somerville College at the University of Oxford.
The appointment is effective September 2010.
Prochaska is an alumna of Somerville and received both her undergraduate degree and a doctorate in modern history from Oxford. Before coming to Yale in 2001, she served at several British institutions, including the British Library, where she was director of special collections, as well as the Institute for Historical Research at London University and the...
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Congratulations. My husband and I met in the Polk-Wisdom Library in Dallas, TX when we were four and five. Reading programs and libraries are essential to the developement of all people. Good Luck in the future Mrs. Alice Prochaska.
Alice was wonderful, for those few undergraduate who had interactions with her. Somerville is luck to have her. All the best.
They really need to hire a better librarian in her place. Maybe its not her fault, but half of the libraries on campus that I have used have closed since coming here and the ones that are still open have terrible service. I went to the medical library on a weekend afternoon during the semester, and there was no one there to help patrons navigate the stacks. They wouldn't even get out of their chair.
Yet another Oxford grab from Yale's talent pool!