[Libs-Or] Fwd: Jay Jordan to retire as OCLC President and CEO
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Member Update
The latest news and events from the OCLC cooperative
Announcement of Jay Jordan's retirement plans
Greetings:
At the OCLC President’s Luncheon today in New Orleans, I announced that Jay
Jordan will retire as President and CEO on Jun 30, 2012.
As I stated in the attached news release, Jay wanted to give us sufficient
notice to provide time for a thorough search and a smooth transition for his
successor.
The Board is forming a search committee that will conduct an international
search for the fifth President and CEO of OCLC. The composition of the
Committee will be announced in the near future.
We will recognize and celebrate Jay’s significant contributions to the OCLC
cooperative in the coming year.
In the meantime, as you might surmise, Jay intends to press on with the
implementation of new Web-scale services and continue to work hard on behalf
of the OCLC cooperative. Below is the text of the news release that OCLC
will distribute shortly.
Larry Alford
Chair
OCLC Board of Trustees
[image: photo_jordan]
Jay Jordan to retire as OCLC President and CEO
*New Orleans, Louisiana, June 27, 2011*—Jay Jordan will retire as President
and CEO of OCLC Online Computer Library Center on June 30, 2012.
The announcement was made today by OCLC Board Chair Larry Alford at the
OCLC President’s Luncheon during the Annual Conference of the American
Library Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Jay Jordan has informed the OCLC Board of Trustees of his desire to retire
as President and CEO in June 2012," said Mr. Alford. "Jay wanted to give us
sufficient advance notice to provide time for a thorough search and a smooth
transition for his successor. The Board is forming a search committee and is
preparing to launch an international search for the fifth President and CEO
of OCLC."
"Jay Jordan has presided over a period of remarkable growth and innovation
during his 13 years at OCLC," said Mr. Alford. "Under his transformative
leadership, OCLC has moved in new and exciting directions to fulfill its
public purpose of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing
the rate of rise of library costs."
"Today is not a farewell," said Mr. Alford. "We will recognize and celebrate
Jay’s contributions to the cooperative in the coming year. In the meantime,
it will be business as usual, and with Jay Jordan, that means full speed
ahead."
In his remarks at the OCLC President’s Luncheon, Mr. Jordan stated: "It has
been an honor to serve the OCLC cooperative. OCLC is an exceptional
organization with an active and committed membership and a dedicated staff.
OCLC’s Founder Fred Kilgour was fond of saying that OCLC was like the first
flight of the Wright Brothers—12 seconds off the ground. That was 40 years
ago. Today, our new WMS services are just getting off the ground, and I look
forward to handing off to my successor a strong organization with an
exciting set of opportunities."
According to Mr. Alford, the composition of the Search Committee will be
announced in the near future.
OCLC has had four presidents since its founding in 1967:
- Frederick G. Kilgour (1967-1980)
- Rowland C. W. Brown (1980-1989)
- K. Wayne Smith (1989-1998)
- Jay Jordan (1998-)
Mr. Jordan, 68, became OCLC’s fourth President and CEO on May 8, 1998.
Since then, the number of libraries participating in the OCLC cooperative
has grown from 30,000 to more than 72,000. The number of participating
institutions outside the U.S. has increased from 3,200 in 64 countries to
16,215 in 170 countries. At the same time, the OCLC cooperative has become
global in its governance, with regional councils in the Americas, Asia
Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa sending delegates to a new
Global Council.
Since 1998, the WorldCat bibliographic database has grown from 38 million
records to more than 240 million, and the number of location listings
attached to those records has increased from 668 million to more than 1.7
billion. In 2006, WorldCat became available to people everywhere on the
Internet.
Under Mr. Jordan’s leadership, OCLC built a new technological platform,
introduced new Web-scale services and created a library advocacy program.
Here are highlights of OCLC’s accomplishments since 1998:
- OCLC Connexion cataloging service launched on new technological
platform (2002)
- QuestionPoint virtual reference service (created with Library of
Congress) launched (2002)
- OCLC began distributing CONTENTdm digital collection management
software (2002)
- WebJunction online community for public libraries launched Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation (2003)
- OCLC launched advocacy program, published OCLC Environmental Scan:
Pattern Recognition (2003)
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Library of
Congress and OCLC started development of Virtual International Authorities
File that in 2011 will become an OCLC service (2003)
- OCLC Research made available at no charge an algorithm to convert
bibliographic databases to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records (FRBR) model (2003)
- OCLC Online Service Center launched (2005)
- Worthington (Ohio) Libraries contributed 1 billionth holding to
WorldCat (2005)
- WorldCat database becomes available to people everywhere on the
Internet via WorldCat.org (2006)
- WorldCat Collection Analysis, Terminologies service, WorldCat Registry
introduced (2006)
- WorldCat Local, which provides a single interface to a library’s
collection, is introduced (2008)
- OCLC Developer Network created (2008)
- WorldCat became available on mobile devices (2009)
- WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway launched (2009)
- OCLC Web-scale Management Services began operation (2010)
Since 1998, OCLC has expanded its offerings through mergers and
acquisitions and focused operations through divestitures:
- WLN merged with OCLC; the WLN union catalog merged with WorldCat; about
550 libraries in the Pacific Northwest and Canada became OCLC members (1999)
- In 1999, OCLC acquired Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) and
divested it in 2004.
- RLG merged with OCLC; Research Library Partnership created (2006)
- OCLC acquired Openly Informatics (2006)
- OCLC Europe, the Middle East and Africa created through merger of PICA
B.V. (The Netherlands) and the former OCLC office based in Birmingham, U.K.
The new organization provides library management systems as well as OCLC
services.(2002)
- OCLC acquired DiMeMa, Inc., developer of CONTENTdm digital collection
management software (2006)
- OCLC acquired these library management systems: SISIS (2005);
Fretwell-Downing Informatics (2005); Amlib (2008); BOND (2011)
- OCLC acquired EZproxy authentication and access software (2008)
- OCLC acquired NetLibrary e-book platform in 2002 and divested it in
2010
- In 2009, OCLC divested Preservation Service Center, which was acquired
in 1990.
OCLC has also fostered strategic alliances with a number of organizations
to make libraries and their collections more visible on the Internet,
including HathiTrust, Google, Microsoft, OAIster and Yahoo!
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