Weaving Libraries into the Web : OCLC 1998-2008

ISBN-13: 9780415576901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str.

Phil Schieber

Opis

The chapters in this book show that the OCLC's chartered objectives of furthering access to the world's information and reducing the rate of rising library costs continue to resonate among libraries and librarians, as the OCLC cooperative enters its fifth decade.

Spis treści

Introduction  Jay Jordan  1. Biographical sketch of Frederick G. Kilgour (from NextSpace)  Phil Schieber  2. Governing a global cooperative  Larry P. Alford  3. A brief history of the OCLC Members Council  George Needham and Rich Van Orden  4. RLG and OCLC: Combined for the Future  Lizabeth Wilson, James Neal, James Michalko and Jay Jordan  5. OCLC in the Asia Pacific Region  Anthony W. Ferguson and Andrew Wang  6. History and activity of OCLC in Canada  Daniel Boivin  7. OCLC in Europe, the Middle East and Africa  Janet Lees  8. OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Chronology  Lawrence Olszewski  9. The OCLC Network of Regional Service Providers: The Last 10 Years  Brenda Bailey-Hainer  10. The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program: A Long Name for an Important Project  Nancy Lensenmayer and George Needham  11. 21^st Century Library Systems  Andrew Pace  12. Next Generation Cataloging  Karen Calhoun and Renee Register  13. The DDC and OCLC  Joan S. Mitchell and Diane Vizine-Goetz  14. The Revolution Continues: Resource Sharing and OCLC in the New Century  William J. Crowe  15. Virtual Reference Reflections  Stewart Bodner  16. Digital Collections: History and Perspectives  Greg Zick  17. The RLG Partnership  James Michalko  18. WebJunction: A Community for Library Staff  Marilyn Gell Mason  19. OCLC Research: Past, Present, and Future  Nancy Elkington  20. Advocacy and OCLC  Cathy De Rosa  21. OCLC 1998-2008: Weaving Libraries into the Web  Jay Jordan  22. Chronology: Noteworthy Achievements of the Cooperative 1967-2008  Phil Schieber

O autorze

Jay Jordan became the fourth president in OCLC's 38-year history in May 1998. He came to OCLC after a 24-year career with Information Handling Services, an international publisher of databases, where he held a series of key positions in top management, including President of IHS Engineering. Heis active in professional organizations, including the American Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. He is a Fellow of the Standards Engineering Society.