Nationality American Role Executive Name Jay Jordan | Occupation Business executive Education Colgate University | |
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Full Name Robert L. Jordan | ||
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Robert L. "Jay" Jordan (born 1943) is an American business executive who most recently served as president and executive officer of OCLC, an international computer library network and conglomerate of databases and webservices representing more than 70,000 libraries. He served as president of OCLC from 1998 to his retirement in June 2013.
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- Carmen Perez Jay Jordan On Legal Barriers People w Convictions Face Time Done Concert
- Jay Jordan on How the TimeDone Campaign Impacts his Family Californians for Safety and Justice
- Biography
- OCLC
- Postponement of retirement
- References
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Biography
Jay Jordan earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Colgate University. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany. After working for 3M in Europe and the U.S., he joined Information Handling Services, where he worked for 24 years and was president of one of its divisions, IHS Engineering. In 1998, he became president and CEO of OCLC. Jordan was the 4th president of OCLC, after Fred Kilgour, Rowland C.W. Brown and K. Wayne Smith.
OCLC
At the time Jordan joined OCLC, the nonprofit organization represented 30,000 libraries. 14 years later technological developments had completely changed the information society and the use of libraries. Jordan succeeded in helping OCLC to adapt to these new developments. WorldCat, the largest catalog in the world, is still one of the flagships of OCLC, containing more than 290 million bibliographic records from 72,000 libraries around the world. At the same time OCLC developed new services (like Question Point) and incorporated innovating firms like the Research Libraries Group (2006), PICA (2007), Ezproxy (2008) and OAIster (2009). OCLC sold NetLibrary in 2010. Recently, VIAF was implemented and hosted by OCLC. VIAF is a service to link identical records from different data sets together, thereby making it easier for patrons to find e.g. books from Dostoyevsky/Dostoïevski
During Jordan's presidency OCLC also created a library advocacy program ("Geek the library"). It invested in new computer infrastructure, so it could handle non-Roman scripts. OCLC introduced new initiatives to make libraries and their paper and digital holdings more visible. CONTENTdm was set up to create better and stable online visibility for special collections and art treasures.
Postponement of retirement
In June 2012 Jay Jordan announced that he would postpone his retirement and continue leading OCLC until June 2013. In May 2013 OCLC announced Skip Prichard to be the new CEO and President of OCLC as of July 2013.