Brenda Bailey is new director, OCLC Distributed Systems

On April 1, Brenda Bailey assumed leadership of the OCLC SiteSearch suite team as director, Distributed Systems.

Ms. Bailey joined OCLC in December 1995 as account manager for a seven-state region in the western United States. She was named manager, Sales Support, in 1997 and was promoted to west region marketing manager for the U.S. Sales Division in 1998. Prior to joining OCLC, she was a marketing and client liaison in document delivery with the UnCover Company in Denver, Colorado. From 1989-1994 she was client representative for local systems with the CARL Corporation, also in Denver. From 1983-1989, she held various positions in the public service areas of the libraries at Morningside College (Sioux City, Iowa) and Fort Lewis College (Durango, Colorado).

As director, Distributed Systems, Ms. Bailey will be responsible for development and support of OCLC SiteSearch software as well as custom services and training.

Ms. Bailey graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and a minor in library and educational media. She has a master’s degree in library science from Kent State University and a master’s degree in music from the University of South Dakota. She is currently completing a doctoral degree in public administration at the University of Colorado at Denver.