About J. C. T. Oates
Lived 1912 – 1990 (aged 77–78). J. C. T. Oates was a librarian.
John Claud Trewinard Oates FBA (24 June 1912 – 11 June 1990) was a librarian at the University of Cambridge, a trustee of the university, and president of the Bibliographical Society (1970–72).
He was educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1935. He became assistant under-librarian at Cambridge University Library a year later, was promoted to under-librarian in 1949, deputy librarian in 1975, and finally became acting chief librarian in 1979, a year before his retirement.
He was also Reader (later Emeritus) in Historical Bibliography at Cambridge, and a fellow of Darwin College.
Selected publications Cambridge University Library: A historical sketch. Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, 1975. (reprinted from The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol. 4, Marcel Dekker, pp. 50–70.
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