OCLC 1967-1997 : thirty years of furthering access to the world's information

300 Pages·2013·5.36 MB·English

by  Smith, K. Wayne

OCLC
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K. Wayne Smith
Editor
OCLC 1967-1997:
Thirty Years of Furthering Access
to the World’s Information
OCLC 1967-1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World’s
Information has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of
Library Administration, Volume 25, Numbers 2/3 and 4 1998.
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OCLC 1967-1997:
Thirty Years of Furthering Access
to the World’s Information
K. Wayne Smith
Editor
OCLC 1967-1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World’s
Information has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of
Library Administration, Volume 25, Numbers 2/3 and 4 1998.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
K. Wayne Smith, PhD, has been President and Chief Executive Offi­
cer of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, Ohio,
since 1989.
He received the BA in political science from Wake University and
the MA and PhD in economics and political science from Princeton
University, where he was a Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
He has also done postgraduate work in economics at the University of
Southern California. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree
from Ohio University in 1992. He was named a Consulting Professor
by Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 1996, one of only six so
honored in the University’s 85-year history and the first U.S. citizen.
Between 1964 and his joining OCLC in 1989, he held key posts in
higher education, government, and business. In higher education, he
has taught at West Point, Princeton, and Wake Forest. In government,
he has worked as a “Whiz Kid” in the Pentagon on the staff of Secre­
tary of Defense Robert McNamara and in the White House as Direc­
tor of Program Analysis for the National Security Council under Dr.
Henry Kissinger. In business, he has been Chairman and CEO of
World Book Encyclopedia and a Group Managing Partner at Coopers &
Lybrand. Dr. Smith is active across a wide spectrum of organizations
in higher education, business, government, and international rela­
tions. He has served on many for-profit and not-for-profit boards in­
cluding National City Bank, Scott Fetzer, Wake Forest University, the
Mershon Center, and the Institute for International Education. He has
written and lectured extensively on national security affairs, systems
analysis, information technology, and planning and management. He
is co-author with Alain C. Enthoven of the book How Much Is
Enough? Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969 (New York:
Harper & Row, 1971).
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OCLC 1967-1997:
Thirty Years of Furthering Access
to the World’s Information
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
K. Wayne Smith
What WoridCat (The OCLC Online Union Catalog)
Means to Me 3
George E. Bishop
Donald O. Case
Patricia L. Hassan
Jeanette C. Smith
Daofu Zhang
Users Council: An Institutionalized Role for Libraries
in OCLC’s Governance
Victoria L. Hanawalt
The Strategic Alliance Between OCLC and Networks:
Partnerships That Work
David H. Brunell
OCLC and Its Advisory Committees 31
Shirley K. Baker
Changing the Tasks of Cataloging 45
Lee Leighton
Reference Revolutions 55
Marilyn Gell Mason
An Ongoing Revolution: Resource Sharing and OCLC 65
Kate Nevins
Cooperation Among Research Libraries: The Committee
on Institutional Cooperation 73
Thomas W. Shaughnessy
Context for Collaboration: Resource Sharing at the State Level 87
James A. Nelson
The University System of Georgia’s GALILEO 97
Merryll Penson
Telecommunications Options Connect OCLC and Libraries
to the Future: The Co-Evolution of OCLC Connectivity
Options and the Library Computing Environment 111
Marshall Breeding
OCLC in Asia Pacific 129
Min-min Chang
OCLC in Europe 141
Christine Deschamps
OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean 159
Rosaly Favero Krzyzanowski
Inès Maria de Morais Imperatriz
The Transformation from Microfilm to Digital Storage
and Access 177
Meg Bellinger
The OCLC Institute: Genesis and Prospectus 187
Martin Dillon
OCLC’s Office of Research: Past, Present and Future 201
John V. Richardson, Jr.
New Electronic Scholarship and Libraries;
Or the Medium Became the Message 239
Sharon J. Rogers
Charlene S. Hurt
OCLC: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 251
K. Wayne Smith
Index 271