During the OCLC Members Council meeting of May 2006, in Dublin, Ohio, the number of delegates representing OCLC PICA has been extended to seven. The new elected delegates are David Bradbury, Ariëtte Skolnik and Poul Erlandsen. Berndt Dugall was elected to the position of Delegate at Large for the Executive Committee. Juha Hakala and John Tsebe will serve as alternate delegates. OCLC PICA is very pleased with these appointments and congratulates all six delegates.
There are 66 Members Council delegates who are elected by and represent the OCLC member libraries in their respective regions. Council meets three times a year. These meetings, which are attended by OCLC management and members of the OCLC Board of Trustees, serve as a forum for exchanging ideas and raising issues. Other OCLC PICA delegates are Alex Klugkist, Ellen Tise and Colin Harris. Norma Read ended her term as alternate delegate.
The new OCLC PICA delegates come from various areas in the library community.
- David Bradbury
Mr. Bradbury is Director of Libraries, Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery at the City of London Guildhall Library, UK. He is also a former member of the British Library Board; IFLA Acquisitions and Exchange Standing Committee (former Chair); and Director IFLA UAP Programme. - Poul Erlandsen
Mr. Erlandsen is Head, Document Access Services at the National Library of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also Chair of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section; Secretariat Manager at the Nordic Federation of Research Libraries Association; and Member of the Programme Committee User Facilities at Denmark’s Electronic Research Library. - Ariëtte Skolnik
Mrs. Skolnik is Director at the City Library of Haarlem, Netherlands. She is also Chair at the Stichting WSF (Foundation of Libraries with a regional Academic Back Office); Member of Stichting Pica (Foundation Pica); and Member of Metamorfoze – Committee for the Dutch national programme for preservation of paper heritage. - Juha Hakala
Mr. Hakala is Director Database Services at the Helsinki University Library, Helsinki, Finland. He is also Member of the Dublin Core Board of Trustees; Committee member for ISO TC46 and NISO; Coordinator of the Scandinavian Virtual Union Catalogue; and Representative at the ONE Association. - John Tsebe
Mr. Tsebe is librarian and CEO of National Library of South Africa. Amongst many other major roles in the South African library and information services sector, he was a founder member of the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA). He currently serves on the Boards of the South African Library and Information Trust and SABINET.
Members Council delegates are elected for three-year terms by the members of their respective regions. Staff of regional service providers, as well as OCLC-member libraries, may serve. Delegates come from many types and sizes of institutions and thus bring different perspectives to the Council.
The number of delegates from each region is based on that region's proportional contribution to the WorldCat bibliographic database and number of OCLC-member institutions. Delegates report back to OCLC members and participants through regional service providers and other state and regional associations.
More information on the OCLC Members Council can be found at www.oclc.org/memberscouncil.
