sentences:  Esteve-Coll was head of learning resources at Kingston Polytechnic from 1977, and in 1982 became the first female director of the University of Surrey Library.Esteve-Coll was the first woman director of a national arts collection when she was appointed as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1987, succeeding Sir Roy Strong.She resigned in 1994, midway through her second term as director, to take up the Vice-Chancellorship of the University of East Anglia.