Helen Vincent
Head of Western Heritage Collections
The British Library
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, GB
Cultural Heritage
Helen Vincent has been Head of Western Heritage at the British Library since 2024. Before that she was Head of Rare Books, Maps and Music Collections at the National Library of Scotland, where she represented the Library on the Scottish Nationals Climate and Culture Group. She chaired the Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage for IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) 2023-25, and previously chaired IFLA’s Rare Books and Special Collections Section, 2015-19, and was a member of IFLA’s Governing Board 2019-21. She has been involved with Europeana’s Climate Action Community since it first began.