Sarah Elizabeth Thomas is an American librarian best known for her leadership positions in a number of research libraries.
She qualified as a professional librarian at Simmons College in 1973 and received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1982 for a thesis on the Austrian author Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his relations with his publisher.
Between 2007 and 2013, she held the office of Bodley's Librarian and Director of the Bodleian Libraries[4] at the University of Oxford.
[7] In an interview she gave shortly after taking up the position, she recalled visiting Oxford when she was working at the Library of Congress to speak at the Sheldonian Theatre.
Integration, the digital library, the estates programme, the opportunity to be inside a truly magnificent institution and have a role at a pivotal moment in its history – that was just too enticing for me.