Biographical Sketch of Frederick G. KilgourLibrarian, Educator, Entrepreneur, 1914-2006

摘要

The article traces the career of Frederick G. Kilgour (1914-2006),who is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in 20~(th)-century librarianship. He founded the Ohio College Library Cen-ter (OCLC) and from 1967 to 1981 was its first president andchief executive officer, presiding over OCLC's rapid growth froman intrastate network to an international network. In 1971, underKilgour's leadership, OCLC introduced an online shared catalogingsystem and an online union catalog (WorldCat) that is today theworld's foremost bibliographic database. In 1978, he created theOCLC Office of Research, and in 1979, under his direction, OCLClaunched its online interlibrary loan system. The author of 205scholarly papers, Kilgour received numerous awards and honorsover the course a career that took him from Harvard UniversityLibrary, to the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, to YaleMedical Library, to OCLC, and finally, to the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill, where he spent his final years on the facultyof the School of Information and Library Science as a DistinguishedResearch Professor.