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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.
- Eleanor Margaret Beach
- January 6, 1914, Springfield, Massachusetts, US
- Harvard College
- July 31, 2006 (aged 92), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US
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, making the...
Feb 12, 2020 · Frederick Kilgour (1914-2006), professor emeritus in University Libraries at Ohio State, was the founding director of the Ohio College Library Center. Today, it is known as the Online Computer Library Center and is a global library cooperative supporting thousands of libraries in making information more accessible to people around the world.
Aug 1, 2006 · 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.
- August 1, 2006
- Press Release
- 2006
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 library had to ...
The Pioneers: Frederick G. Kilgour (1914–2006) — Phil Schieber. In 1966, Frederick G. Kilgour wrote: “Libraries now find themselves forced to a dynamic state of instability, which should not be confused with insecurity. Since the age of Pericles, the unstable periods in human history have been the most productive periods.
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 Center (OCLC) and from 1967 to 1981 was its first president and chief executive officer, presiding over OCLC's rapid growth from an intrastate network to ...
