You’re invited to an OCLC Web event, “Web-scale or Bust: Harnessing Cooperative Innovation for Management Service”
Join Andrew Pace, OCLC Director of Networked Services, pilot participants and Advisory Council members for a live Web event as they discuss how OCLC Web-scale Management Services can positively impact your library’s budget and workflows. See Web-scale Circulation and Acquisitions components in action and learn about the underlying technologies that truly make this a next-generation suite of management services.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
2:00 – 3:00pm Eastern / 11:00am – 12:00pm Pacific
Reserve your seat at: www.oclc.org/info/webscale
July 2nd, 2010
OCLC recognizes 2010 award winners
DUBLIN, Ohio, July 1, 2010—Part of OCLC’s commitment to research and education includes furthering the advancement of librarianship. OCLC does this not only through its Office of Research and Innovation Lab, but also by financially supporting awards and scholarships. OCLC is proud to announce the following 2010 awards that recognize innovation and creativity in the library community. The recipients were acknowledged June 28 during the OCLC President’s Luncheon at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference.
OCLC/LITA Minority Scholarship in Library and Information Technology
Sofia Becerra Licha, University North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Margaret Mann Citation
Olivia Marie A. Madison, Dean of the library, Iowa State University
John Ames Humphry/OCLC Forest Press Award for International Librarianship
Jordan Scepanski and Lea Wells, Principals, Jordan Wells Associates
American Library Association’s Melvil Dewey Medal
Brian Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego
Virginia Boucher—OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian
Cherié Weible, Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology
Dr. John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and Founder of the Public Knowledge Project
More information about OCLC annual awards and scholarships can be found at www.oclc.org/community/careerdevelopment.
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July 2nd, 2010
