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Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914 – July 31, 2006) was an American librarian and educator known as the founding director of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), an international computer library network and database. He was its president and executive director from 1967 to 1980. [1] [2] [3]
- Eleanor Margaret Beach
- January 6, 1914, Springfield, Massachusetts, US
- Harvard College
- July 31, 2006 (aged 92), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US
Fred Kilgour. Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914—July 31, 2006) was a pioneer of library and information science in the twentieth century. Fred Kilgour envisioned the idea of resource sharing by networking all libraries in the world by using computer technologies in the era when all libraries were using print card system and each ...
Aug 2, 2006 · Frederick Gridley Kilgour was born on Jan. 6, 1914, in Springfield, Mass. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Harvard in 1935 and afterward held several positions at the Harvard library.
Aug 1, 2006 · Press Release:Frederick G. Kilgour, founder of OCLC, dies at 92. Frederick G. Kilgour, a librarian and educator who created an international computer library network and database that changed the way people use libraries, died on July 31, 2006. He was 92 years old and had lived since 1990 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He founded OCLC Online Computer Library Center and led the creation of a ...
- August 1, 2006
- Press Release
- 2006
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Aug 7, 2006 · Mr. Kilgour died July 31 of a brain hemorrhage at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, according to OCLC spokesman Bob Murphy. He was 92. Before OCLC was formed ...
Ralph H. Parker and Frederick G. Kilgour, “Report to the Committee of Librarians of the Ohio College Association,” in Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, OCLC Years. (Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 1984), 1. 3. “An Interview with OCLC Founder Fred Kilgour.” VHS.
Aug 2, 2006 · Aug. 2, 2006. Frederick G. Kilgour, a distinguished librarian who nearly 40 years ago transformed a consortium of Ohio libraries into what is now the largest library cooperative in the world ...
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