Karen Calhoun joins OCLC
Congratulations to Karen Calhoun on her new position at OCLC as Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services.
I respect Karen tremendously, and look forward to seeing whether her undoubted knowledge, experience and commitment to delivering evolving services can help turn the lumbering behemoth in a new direction more appropriate to our current expectations and requirements.
OCLC is crammed full of extremely talented individuals. It’s still going the wrong way, and I continue to watch for their panic-stricken waving from the deck, as they realise that they can’t turn the [grain? 
] tanker before it crashes into the rocks.
Update: post edited to correct my mistyping of Karen’s new post; it’s Metadata services, of course, not Member services.
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March 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
The article says,
Any other news about this “reorganization”? For example, isn’t this George Needham’s position?
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Caleb
I only know what’s in the release… but it doesn’t appear to me to be George’s position as VP for Member Services.
Perhaps George, Lorcan Dempsey, or someone else at OCLC could elucidate on the wider reorg… ?
March 27th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
ugh. That’s embarassing! I misread ‘metadata’ as ‘member’. I can’t wait for 300dpi screens. Or I should really see about those glasses for computer reading.
Still - reorganizing?
March 27th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Caleb - it’s MY mistake! I miswrote ‘metadata’ as ‘member’ in the post. No wonder you were confused!
Many apologies…
Paul