Caroline Brazier (librarian)

{{Short description|British professional librarian}}

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Caroline Brazier, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} is a Scottish librarian. From 2013 to 2018, she was Chief Librarian of the British Library, the United Kingdom's national library.

Brazier did her undergraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, and earned a master's degree in library and information studies at University College London.{{citation|title=World's Leading National, Public, Monastery and Royal Library Directors: Leadership, Management, Future of Libraries|first1=Patrick|last1=Lo|first2=Allan|last2=Cho|first3=Dickson K. W.|last3=Chiu|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=2017|isbn=9783110533347|pages=25–36|contribution=Caroline Brazier: Chief Librarian, British Library|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=USY-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25}}

Before moving to the British Library in 2002, she worked at a number of academic and research libraries including those at Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University.{{cite web |title=Caroline Brazier announces retirement from the British Library |url=https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2017/december/caroline-brazier-retirement |website=The British Library |accessdate=13 June 2018 |date=6 December 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Fryer |first1=Jon |title=Chief Librarian |url=https://www.bl.uk/aboutus/foi/pubsch/pubscheme1/DirectorofCollections.html |website=The British Library |accessdate=13 June 2018 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Caroline Brazier |url=https://archive.cilip.org.uk/about/cilip-people/board-members/caroline-brazier |website=CILIP |accessdate=13 June 2018 |language=en |date=6 July 2016}}{{cite web |title=A Life with Libraries: BDS interviews Caroline Brazier |url=https://www.bdslive.com/page/news-detail/a-life-with-libraries/ |website=Bibliographic Data Services |accessdate=13 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614040334/https://www.bdslive.com/page/news-detail/a-life-with-libraries/ |archive-date=14 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}

She became chief librarian in 2013.

Brazier announced her retirement in 2017, effective 2018.

In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, Brazier was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to librarianship and to higher education.{{London Gazette |issue= 62310 |date= 9 June 2018 |page= B8 |supp= y }}