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OCLC Global Council meets to discuss increasing
importance and impact of global cooperation,
announces election results
Berndt
Dugall elected to OCLC Board of Trustees
Barbara Preece elected
Global Council Vice President/President-Elect
OCLC Global Council
met in The Hague, Netherlands, this week to discuss the opportunities and
challenges libraries face in an increasingly global environment and the
importance of international cooperation. Global Council elected leaders for
next year, elected a new trustee and announced results from regional council
elections. Council also accepted a report and recommendations by the Global
Advisory Group on Credits and Incentives.
It was the first OCLC Global Council meeting to take place outside the United
States or Canada. Forty-two Global Council delegates and four alternates from
16 countries and territories participated in the meeting under the direction
of OCLC Global Council President ChewLeng Beh, Senior Director, Library and
Professional Services and Director of SILAS National Library Board,
Singapore.
Global Council delegates elected Berndt Dugall, Direktor/Librarian at
Universität Frankfurt's Universitätsbibliothek Johann Senckenberg (Frankfurt
am Main, Germany) to OCLC’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Dugall has served the OCLC
membership since 2005 in various Council roles, most recently as Global
Council Vice President (2010–2011), then as President (2011–2012). His term
on the Board will begin in November. Currently 10 of the 16 Trustees are
librarians.
Barbara Preece, Director, Loyola/Notre Dame Library (Baltimore, Maryland,
USA), was elected Vice President/President-Elect of OCLC Global Council. Her
one-year term as Vice President will begin 1 July 2013, and her one-year term
as President will begin 1 July 2014.
Anne Prestamo, Claud D. Kniffin Professor of Library Service and Education
and Associate Dean for Collection and Technology Services, Oklahoma State
University (Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA), will begin her term as Global Council
President 1 July 2013.
Global Council
accepted a report and recommendations by the Global Advisory Group on Credits
and Incentives. Following 18 months of analysis and discussion with members,
the report recommends that the Cooperative gradually phase out the Financial
Credits Program through June 2016. The report recognizes the important role
that the Financial Credits Program has played in the Cooperative. The report
calls for the continued promotion and celebration of member contribution and
sharing, and the need to ensure that the phase-out of the program minimizes
any financial impact to members currently participating in the Financial
Credits Program. While the current program is being phased out, the Advisory
Group report said, “...the Cooperative should support development of new
mechanisms that celebrate and encourage member cooperation and sharing in
support of our common purpose of furthering access to the world’s
information.”
The recommendation goes to the OCLC Board of Trustees and OCLC management for
consideration.
OCLC’s three
Regional Councils—Americas Regional Council (ARC), Europe, Middle East and
Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) and Asia Pacific Regional Council
(APRC)—concluded elections and announced results during the meeting.
OCLC member voting representatives elected the following individuals from
their respective regions:
OCLC Americas Regional
Council (ARC)
ARC Executive Committee
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect—Wilbur Stolt, Director of Libraries, University of
North Dakota, Chester Fritz Library, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. As Vice
Chair/Chair-Elect, Mr. Stolt will become the Chair of the Executive Committee
beginning 1 July 2014.
OCLC Global Council
Delegates from the Americas Region (Term: 1 July 2013 – 30 June 2016)
·
Bonnie J. Allen, Dean of
Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
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Tricia Bengel, Emerging
Technologies Administrator, Nashville Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee,
USA
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Dalia L. Corkrum, Library
Director, Whitman College, Penrose Library, Walla Walla, Washington, USA
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Christopher Cronin, Director of
Technical Services, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Director of
University Libraries and Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, USA
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Gwendolyn Ebbett, Dean, University
of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Chuck Gibson, Director/CEO,
Worthington Libraries, Worthington, Ohio, USA
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Cheryl King, Special Collections
Librarian, The University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados
·
Mary Konkel, Head of Technical
Services, College of DuPage Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA
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Elmelinda Lara, Senior
Librarian/Head, Technical Services, The University of the West Indies, St.
Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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Madeleine Lefebvre, Chief Librarian,
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Melinda Webster Loof, Library
Teacher, Lexington Public Schools/Bowman Elementary, Lexington,
Massachusetts, USA
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Suzanne Payette, Director,
Brossard Public Library, Brossard, Québec, Canada
·
Ana MarÃa Quiroz, Coordinator of
the Digital Committee, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Región
Metropolitana, Chile
·
Debbie Schachter, Director,
Learning Resources, Douglas College, New Westminster, British Columbia,
Canada
OCLC Asia Pacific
Regional Council (APRC)
APRC Executive Committee
Members (Term: 1 July 2013 – 30 June 2016)
·
Craig Anderson, University
Librarian, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Jinkang Deng, Director, Tsinghua
University Library, Beijing, China
OCLC EMEA Regional
Council (EMEARC)
EMEARC Executive Committee Members and Global Council Delegates (Term: 1 July
2013 – 30 June 2016)
·
Germany—Rupert Schaab, SUB
Göttingen - State and University Library of Göttingen
·
Netherlands—Anja Smit, Utrecht
University
·
United Kingdom—Fiona Parsons, University
of Wolverhampton
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Public Libraries—Jacques
Malschaert, Bibliotheekservice Fryslan, Netherlands
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Other Countries—Poul Erlandsen,
The Royal Library / CULIS, Copenhagen, Denmark
Global Council
visited Leiden for the opening of the newly designed OCLC EMEA office, which
houses more than 100 staff members serving libraries in more than 50
countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
About OCLC Global
Council
Global Council comprises Member Delegates elected by the members within each
of the three Regional Councils and serves as a key strategic discussion forum
and the major communication link between member libraries, Regional Councils
and OCLC. Global Council helps shape the future direction of OCLC and
libraries by electing six members to the OCLC Board of Trustees and ratifying
amendments to the OCLC Code of Regulations and Articles of Incorporation. The
Global Council also discusses interests of mutual concern and makes
recommendations to OCLC management and members of the OCLC Board of Trustees.
Member Delegates also help to ensure regular and open communication between
the Membership and OCLC.
About OCLC Regional
Councils
Each of OCLC’s three Regional Councils—Americas Regional Council (ARC),
Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) and Asia Pacific
Regional Council (APRC)—in cooperation with OCLC, plans at least one
in-person Regional Council meeting annually to keep current on issues of
vital and immediate interest to members of the OCLC cooperative. Regional
Councils also schedule additional virtual or “subregional” meetings as
needed. OCLC supports these meetings, where members can participate in
discussions, advance ideas and vote on resolutions related to the
cooperative. The Regional Councils also elect member representatives from
their respective regions, who will contribute to the Regional Council
Executive Committee and/or Global Council meetings, committees and additional
forums for member input.
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