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Kilgour Lecture to feature Lorcan Dempsey
(Please note location and date change.)
Jan. 26, 2006 - Lorcan Dempsey, vice president of Research and chief strategist for OCLC Online Computer Library Center will present, “Libraries, Logistics and the Long Tail” at the 2006 OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science. The lecture is hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The lecture was established in 2004 by OCLC on the occasion of Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour's 90th birthday. It brings together scholars and leaders from around the world to share innovative ideas and cutting-edge research. The lecture honors Dr. Kilgour who is a distinguished research professor emeritus in the School of Information and Library Science and founder of OCLC. He invented the WorldCat database in 1971, developing the concept of online shared cataloging. WorldCat is one of the most consulted databases in higher education. It is used daily by students, teachers, scholars and researchers worldwide.
Dr. and Mrs. Kilgour are expected to attend the lecture, which will be held on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 3:30 p.m. in the Alumni Hall of the Carolina Club. A reception will follow. The Carolina Club is located on the corner of Stadium and Ridge Roads in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Dempsey oversees the work of OCLC Research and participates in the organization's Strategic Leadership Team. Prior to joining OCLC, he worked in the United Kingdom as, at times, director of the United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking, he was founding co-director of the Resource Discovery Network and director of the Joint Information Systems Committee 's Distributed National Electronic Resource.
The event is free and open to the public, however an RSVP is requested. Please contact Meg McKee at the School of Information and Library Science at 919.962.8366 or via e-mail at: memckee@email.unc.edu
Note: Parking is available at the Ramshead parking deck for $1.25 per hour.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More than 53,548 libraries in 96 countries and territories around the world countries and territories around the world have used OCLC services including cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent and preservation services. OCLC and its worldwide member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, making it the world's largest and richest database of bibliographic information. OCLC publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the most widely used library classification system in the world. OCLC is headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, USA and has over 1100 employees worldwide. For more information visit http://www.oclc.org/ .