Calhoun OCLC VP; Norlin to CAPCON

By Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 5/1/2007

OCLC has named Karen Calhoun VP of WorldCat and Metadata services. She previously was Cornell University Library's senior associate university librarian for information technology and technical services. The position is a homecoming for Calhoun, who was an OCLC Library Resources Management Division staffer from 1986 to 1996, before leaving for Ithaca, NY, to assume various tech services posts at Cornell. She also served as an investigator for the 2006 Library of Congress study The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Integration with Other Discovery Tools, which, according to OCLC, “challenged assumptions about the traditional library catalog and proposed new directions for the research library catalog in the digital era.”

Additionally, Elaina Norlin has joined OCLC's CAPCON staff as new initiatives and outreach manager. She comes to the post from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, where she served as a senior program officer from 2003 to 2006. Norlin also was an associate librarian at the University of Arizona Library, Tucson, and is the author of Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-On Guide (2001, ALA Editions). Norlin was a 2002 LJ Mover & Shaker.