The number of delegates representing the region served by OCLC PICA has been increased to eight on the OCLC Members Council. Between February and April, OCLC PICA conducted an election, according to OCLC Members Council rules, and new delegates have been appointed. These changes take effect beginning with the May 2007 Members Council meeting. The Members Council provides advice and counsel to OCLC.
OCLC Members Council delegates serve for a three year period. This year, Alex Klugkist (Groningen University, Netherlands) ends his term. “OCLC PICA and OCLC are very grateful to Alex Klugkist for his time and efforts contributed to this important OCLC body,” said Rein van Charldorp, Managing Director, OCLC PICA.
Berndt Dugall (Frankfurt University, Germany), elected delegate at large on the Executive Committee last year, is re-elected to a new 3-year term. Juha Hakala (Helsinki University, Finland) becomes a full delegate. Newly elected delegates to serve 2007-2010 are Klaus Ceynowa and Graham Jefcoate. Elected as new alternate delegate for the same period is Robin Green. “OCLC PICA would like to congratulate all new delegates,” said Mr. van Charldorp.
The new OCLC PICA delegates come from various areas in the library community:
- Robin Green
Mr Green is the Executive Director at CURL, the Consortium of Research Libraries (in the United Kingdom). His focus area is library support for research – development and exploitation of collections and content, and development of services, including new roles and skills. He has a particular interest in the connections and linkages between different types of activity, particularly where there are opportunities for collaborative working. - Dr. Klaus Ceynowa
Dr. Ceynowa is Deputy Director-General at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Germany. He is also head of projects funded by the German Research Foundation which included “Balanced Scorecard for libraries” and “Cost management for libraries” and is a member of DIN-ISO-Working Group which published “Performance Indicators for National Libraries”. He is also a member of the Bertelsmann foundation steering group on Nationwide Benchmarking for Public and Academic Libraries, and the chief negotiator of the Cooperative Agreement between Google and the Bavarian State Library on the digitization of the complete public domain collection. - Graham P. Jefcoate MA
Mr Jefcoate is Director at the Radboud University Library in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He is a member of UKB, the Dutch consortium of university libraries and the national library. Previously, he was Head of Early Printed Collections at the British Library and Director at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.
There are 66 Members Council delegates who are elected by and represent 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. Continuing OCLC PICA delegates are Ellen Tise (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Ariette Skolnik (City Library of Haarlem, Netherlands), David Bradbury (City of London Guildhall Library, UK) and Poul Erlandsen (National Library of Education, Denmark); John Tsebe (National Library of South Africa) is an alternate delegate.
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.
For more information, please contact OCLC PICA Communications by e-mail or by telephone at +31-(0)71-524 65 00.
