OCLC promotes executives

DUBLIN, Ohio, August 28, 2007-OCLC, the world's largest library
cooperative, based in Dublin, Ohio, has announced executive staff
promotions.

Rick Schwieterman has been promoted to Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer.  In this role, Mr. Schwieterman will continue
to oversee all enterprise activities related to Finance, Accounting,
OCLC's Board of Trustees administration, Human Resources, Administrative
Services, and organizational controls, policies and procedures.  He will
also oversee corporate governance, corporate real estate holdings and
OCLC's investment portfolio.

Mr. Schwieterman joined OCLC in 1992 as Vice President, Finance and
Treasurer.  He was named Chief Financial Officer in 1994 and has been
responsible for a variety of important financial, organizational and
governance initiatives during his time at OCLC.

Chip Nilges has been promoted to Vice President, Business Development.
In this position, Mr. Nilges will assume responsibility for OCLC's
content strategy, which will include OCLC's NetLibrary collections of
eBooks and eAudiobooks, as well as the OCLC FirstSearch online reference
service and the OCLC Electronic Collections Online service.  This
position will help to ensure that OCLC manages its content offerings as
a whole to deliver integrated solutions to libraries and other
organizations.

Mr. Nilges adds the NetLibrary management responsibilities to his
current role overseeing business development.  He joined OCLC in 1994
and has held several key roles including leadership of FirstSearch, new
products and WorldCat content.  Mr. Nilges was named Vice President, New
Product Planning in July 2005.

Bruce Crocco has been promoted to Vice President, Library Services for
the Americas.  In this position, he will oversee sales and library
services in the United States and Canada.

Mr. Crocco joined OCLC in 2002 and most recently served as Executive
Director for Market Programs and Development.  As a participant in
OCLC's succession management program, Mr. Crocco accepted the assignment
to lead the migration and integration of RLG products and services with
OCLC's when the two organizations were combined.  In this role, Mr.
Crocco has managed the staff in Mountain View, California, in addition
to continuing his current management responsibilities in Library
Services.  Mr. Crocco has a background managing multi-functional
workgroups across a variety of geographies.

In his new role, Mr. Crocco will work with Library Services staff to
execute the FY08 sales plan while continuing to manage customer support
and market analysis and sales programs.  He will also work closely with
the product management teams to provide input and intelligence regarding
product strategy.

"OCLC is operating during a time of unprecedented change," said Jay
Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, in announcing the staff promotions.
"Our ability to adjust as an organization includes the need to
frequently realign people and resources to meet the needs of our member
institutions.  I am confident in the abilities of these individuals and
the entire OCLC team as we continue to meet these challenges."

 

About OCLC

Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit
library service and research organization that has provided
computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent and
preservation services to 60,000 libraries in 112 countries and
territories.  OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and
maintain WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding
library materials.  For more information, visit www.oclc.org.

 

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