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2008 SSP 30th Annual Meeting, Westin Copley, Boston, MA

Concurrent 2B:Search Meets Deep Web Maximizing Reference Resource Discovery

Speakers

Doug Goldenberg-Hart
Doug Goldenberg-Hart has been an acquisitions editor for political/social science reference titles since 2001, and for CQ Press since 2003. He is ABD in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, and spent six years teaching politics at Austin Community College before starting a career in publishing. Among the multi-volume reference titles he has commissioned are Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion and Federalism in America: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood), and Encyclopedia of U.S.

American Indian Relations and Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (forthcoming) for CQ Press. He is the sponsoring content editor for several of the CQ Press award-winning digital collections including the Supreme Court Collection and the Congress Collection.

Cathy Norton
Since the late eighties Ms. Norton has been involved in building the network infrastructure for the laboratory and the electronic library that serves affiliates world wide- via high- speed networks. She has served as PI on an HHMI grant for building a virtual library; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for building taxonomic information services, tools and communities; NIH contract for outreach in Medical Informatics; NOAA and USGS contracts for library services and a Sea Grant for digitizing the Woods Hole herbarium collection.

In education, she has developed a paperless course in Medical Informatics that delivers the resources and lectures on-line for the students. Currently she is serving as the chair of the digitization committee for the Boston Library Consortium as well as serving on the executive committee. She
has also been elected to serve on Members’ Council for OCLC and have a 3 year appointment to the Literature Technical Advisory Committee at the National Library of Medicine.

She has recently been appointed to the BioOne Board. She was integral in forming a new consortium of Research Libraries and Museums (BISC). The MBLWHOI Library is a member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of Life, that has a large-scale effort in motion for the digitization of all taxonomic literature – she is now serving as the the vice-chairman of that group.

She has hosted, lectured and organized meetings for the NERCOMP Computer Groups and the International Association for Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. The digital library initiatives have focused her interests into modernizing the literature using taxonomic name servers and building communities of stakeholder.

Chip Nilges
Vice President, Business Development, for OCLC, Chip Nilges’ responsibilities include forming and managing strategic business partnerships; managing mergers & acquisitions; and managing OCLC’s licensed content portfolio, including the NetLibrary eBook and eAudiobook collections, the OCLC FirstSearch online reference service and the OCLC Electronic Collections Online service.

Mr. Nilges joined OCLC in 1994 and has held numerous positions with the company during that time. He was selected as one of 50 Library “Movers and Shakers” by Library Journal in March 2005.

Open WorldCat, a project that Chip spearheaded for OCLC, was also cited as the Best New End User Product in The Charleston Advisor 2004 Annual Reader’s Choice Awards.

He was also instrumental in launching OCLC’s online real-time reference service, QuestionPoint, the WorldCat.org web site, and, more recently, the WorldCat Local service. Mr. Nilges earned an MA in business administration, an MA in English, and BA in English, all from Ohio State University.