[DCRM-L] FW: Retirement of Glenn Patton (long message)

[Schneider, Nina]

Passing along this information, as it might be of interest.
Nina
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Nina M. Schneider
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee

Head Cataloger
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA  90018
(323) 731-8529

nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
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Subject: FW: Retirement of Glenn Patton (long message)

Big news from OCLC.  Please excuse duplication.
Caroline
From: Whitacre,Cynthia [mailto:whitacrc at oclc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 1:12 PM
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Subject: [ALCTScentral] Retirement of Glenn Patton (long message)

Please pardon the duplication, as this message is going out to many lists.
Glenn Patton announces plan to retire
Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management Division, has announced his intention to retire December 31 after 34 years of service to the OCLC membership and the library community worldwide.
Glenn has been a tireless advocate for catalogers and cataloging standards in libraries around the world. He has provided steady, calm leadership throughout decades of change as cataloging standards advance with innovation in information technologies. He has helped to guide generations of catalogers as a teacher, communicator and leader in the library community.
"I was fortunate to have worked with Glenn for the past 20 or more years," said Beacher Wiggins, Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress. "He and I served as the respective points of contact for our two entities-OCLC and the Library of Congress.
"Over the years, we have engaged in many far-reaching, complex and challenging initiatives and changes. The transition from Wade-Giles to Pinyin for representing the transliteration of Chinese characters stands out as one of those major efforts that our two organizations undertook on behalf of the larger library community. Throughout this intense project, Glenn, as was his wont, exhibited calm, solid understanding of the effort and a sense of humor that helped us all survive! I will miss working with him and acknowledge the substantive impact his work has had on our profession and the work that libraries perform."
Glenn has been a leader and an active member in a variety of library institutions and organizations. He has served as the OCLC representative to the ALA ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, since 1982. Since 2000, he has been the OCLC representative to the Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Committee and Steering Committee. He was elected as a member of the ALA ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section Executive Committee 2002/03-2004/05. He also served as a primary reviewer of NISO and ISO standards.
"Glenn has long-served as an educator, a mentor, an expert in the field and a trusted colleague within the cataloging community," said Christopher Cronin, Director of Technical Services at the University of Chicago Library, and Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. "He has provided critical leadership and guidance through all of the major standards developments that have emerged during his career, and with each one of these shifts, played a key role in helping to propel us into new futures.
"The community has countless reasons to thank Glenn for his exceptional service to the profession. In particular, I would like to thank Glenn for continually sharing his vision for the crucial role that all catalogers play in building and strengthening the metadata network that is at the core of the OCLC cooperative."
In addition to his contributions to the cataloging profession in general, Glenn has also had a profound impact on the development of OCLC cataloging services. He served as product manager for OCLC's implementation of a variety of initiatives, including the USMARC Machine-Readable Data Files format; USMARC format changes in the OCLC system; and reimplementation of OCLC cataloging functions in the PRISM Service and subsequent enhancements. He served as consultant to other PRISM Service projects to ensure consistency.
He represented OCLC on the Linked Systems Project Bibliographic Analysis Committee. He also served as a primary reviewer of and contributor to OCLC's documentation, and was a consultant to other OCLC staff in interpreting AACR2 and MARC format practices.
Glenn has been very much involved in international library work. He has been an elected ALA representative of the IFLA Bibliography Section Standing Committee since 2007. He participated as an OCLC representative to a cooperative project with German university libraries investigating harmonization of German and U.S. cataloging practices and MARC formats, and in a similar project with the National Library of Russia investigating harmonization of Russian and U.S. cataloging practices and formats. He served as a member of the IFLA Standing Committee on Cataloguing from 1997-2005 and chaired the IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records from 2002-2009.
At every point in his career, Glenn has helped to identify and investigate potential new products, services and initiatives to advance the library community. Most recently, he has been coordinating the implementation of RDA at OCLC.
"For many librarians, Glenn Patton has been the face of OCLC cataloging for some 30 years," said Barbara G. Preece, Director, Loyola/Notre Dame Library, Loyola University Maryland, and President, OCLC Global Council. "Not only has Glenn ably represented OCLC around the world, he has represented the interests of librarians everywhere. His contributions to librarianship will be felt for decades to come."
Glenn is working closely with OCLC leadership on a transition plan as his retirement approaches. Details will be communicated as the transition plan is finalized.
Anyone who would like to share a memory or send congratulations to Glenn can submit text and/or a photo on a catalog card by January 5 using the template linked here: http://oc.lc/glenn.



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