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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
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 ...
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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...
Aug 7, 2006 · By Los Angeles Times. PUBLISHED: August 7, 2006 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 21, 2021 at 2:33 p.m. When the information superhighway was in the design stages, librarian and educator Fred...
Kilgour made important contributions to librarianship during the period of instability that he predicted in 1966. At his death forty years later, he was widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth century librarianship.
- Phil Schieber
- 2010
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.
Aug 6, 2006 · Kilgour died Monday of a brain hemorrhage at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, according to library center spokesman Bob Murphy. He was 92.
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