OCLC Hires Pace, Cunningham

OCLC, the nonprofit giant library service and research organization, continues to hire major figures from the library world, most recently Andrew Pace of North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, and Cindy Cunningham of Corbis Corporation, Seattle. Both begin January 7, 2008.

Pace, head of information technology at NCSU, was project manager for the university's Endeca-based faceted catalog. He will become OCLC's executive director of Networked Library Services, guiding the future development of that area. He is a columnist and blogger for American Libraries and a contributor to other library publications; he wrote “Dismantling Integrated Library Systems,” LJ 2/1/04.

Cunningham was most recently director, media metadata, at Corbis; she will join OCLC as director, partner programs. From 1998 through February 2004, Cunningham held a variety of positions at Amazon, including U.S. catalog librarian/program manager.

Other high-profile OCLC hires in the past year include the California Digital Library's Roy Tennant, now in the RLG Programs Group, and Cornell University Library's Karen Calhoun, now VP, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services.