David Pearson (librarian)

David Pearson (born 1955) is Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation since 2009; his brief covers London Metropolitan Archives, Guildhall Library, City Business Library, Guildhall Art Gallery etc.^[1][2]

Education

Pearson is a graduate of St Bees School^[3] (1967 – 1973) and University of Cambridge (1974 – 1977, MA, PhD).^[2]

Career

He was previously Director of the University of London Research Library Services (2004–09), Librarian of the Wellcome Trust (1996–2004), Head of Special Collections at the National Art Library (1992–96)^[2] and a curator in the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue project at the British Library (1986–92). He has lectured and published extensively in aspects of book history, with a particular emphasis on books as artefacts, and the ways in which they have been owned and bound. He is author of Provenance Research in Book History (1994), Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640 (2000), English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 (2005) and most recently Books as History : The importance of books beyond their texts. He is President of the Bibliographical Society, 2010-12.^[4][5]

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