Janet Brennan Croft
Janet Brennan Croft (born 1961)[1] is an American author and editor. She is currently Head, Access and Delivery Services at Rutgers University. Croft has published a number of works on library science, but she is mostly involved in academic research on J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Academic career
Croft earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Classical Civilization (double major) from University of Indiana in 1982 and graduated as a Master of Library Science in 1983 at the Indiana University School of Library and Information. She has worked at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and has been director and associate professor at Warden Memorial Library, Martin Methodist College. She became the Head of Access Services at Bizzell Memorial Library, University of Oklahoma, in 2001 and was given associate professorship in 2007.[2] In September 2014 she started as Head, Access and Delivery Services at Rutgers University Libraries.[3] Her research interests focus on copyright laws concerning libraries and the work of J. R. R. Tolkien and other fantasy authors. This includes several academic lectures on Tolkien that she has held at University of Oklahoma.[4]
Since 2006 she is the editor of Mythlore, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Mythopoeic Society.[5] Among general publications on mythology and fantasy it focuses on the three most prominent members of the Inklings: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. She is credited as "Tolkien Scholar" in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."
Selected publications
On library science
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On Tolkien
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