Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship

The Review Board on Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship will:

Review reports, letters and comments including blog and listserv messages from the global library community regarding the proposed Policy
Consult with librarians and member representatives as appropriate
Recommend principles of shared data creation and changes in the proposed Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records that will preserve the community around WorldCat infrastructure and services, and strengthen libraries

Our purpose is to engage the OCLC membership and the larger library community and seek your counsel before a new policy is implemented. OCLC has announced it will hold implementation until the third quarter of 2009. Immediately, we will organize information sharing and feedback opportunities with Members Council delegates and with the full membership as well as with other stakeholders in the global library community. We will seek to understand today’s environment as it relates to the creation, use and transfer of data and articulate principles of shared data creation consonant with the values of the OCLC cooperative. We are mindful of the vibrant library community we represent and with your feedback, we will seek ways to strengthen our community. The Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship will present its findings and recommendations to the President of Members Council, the Chair of the Board of Trustees and to the OCLC President and CEO.

“We actively seek feedback in a variety of ways and hope that you will be generous in sharing your thoughts with us. You can do so by sending us an email at reviewboard@oclc.org which is a list set up for the use of the Review Board members, or post comments on the Review Board Online Feedback Forum.”

—Jennifer A. Younger, chair, OCLC Review Board

Members of the Review Board

	Jennifer Younger (INCOLSA) Edward H. Arnold Director of Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame Review Board Chair		Caroline Brazier (EMEA) Head of Resource Discovery, British Library
	Christopher Cole (FEDLINK) Associate Director for Technical Services, National Agriculture Library		Poul Erlandsen (EMEA) Head, Document Access Services and Collection Management, Danish University of Education, National Library of Education
	Pat French (OCLC Western) Manager, Collection and Technical Services, Multnomah County Library		Clifford A. Lynch Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
	Brian E. C. Schottlaender (OCLC Western) The Audrey Geisel University Librarian, UC San Diego Libraries		Ted Schwitzner (ILLINET) Head, Bibliographic Services Division, Illinois State University, Milner Library
	Roberta Shaffer (FLICC/FEDLINK/LC) Executive Director, Federal Library and Information Center Committee, Library of Congress		Lamar Veatch (COSLA/SOLINET) State Librarian, Georgia Public Library Service—University System of Georgia
	Elsie Weatherington (SOLINET) Dean, University Library, Virginia State University

OCLC Liaison to Review Board

Karen Calhoun
OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services

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