Erik Richard Sidney Fifoot,MC (14 June 1925 – 24 June 1992) was a British librarian who served asBodley's Librarian, the head of theBodleian Library at theUniversity of Oxford, from 1979 to 1981.
The son of Hjördis Baars and her husbandC. H. S. Fifoot,[1] Richard Fifoot was educated atBerkhamsted School and theUniversity of Oxford.[2] He served as a lieutenant in theColdstream Guards between 1943 and 1946, winning theMilitary Cross.[2][3] He worked at the library of theUniversity of Leeds from 1950 to 1958 (initially as Assistant Librarian, then as Sub-Librarian from 1952), becoming Deputy Librarian of theUniversity of Nottingham in 1958 and Librarian of theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1960. He was appointedBodley's Librarian in 1979 and also held a ProfessorialFellowship atExeter College, Oxford. He retired in 1981.[2]
He was chairman of theStanding Conference of National and University Libraries from 1979 to 1981, as well as a member of the executive board of theInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions from 1979 to 1983. He founded Three Rivers Books Ltd, and was a director from 1981 to 1990. His writings includedA Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1963, 1971).[2]
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