Members Council EMEA delegates announced
At the May 2008 OCLC Members Council, two new delegates have been appointed for the OCLC Europe, Middle East & Africa region. The appointment followed a nomination round and an election among the members, according to OCLC Members Council rules.
OCLC Members Council delegates serve for a three year period. This year, Ellen Tise (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ends her term. Gwenda Thomas is elected to a 3-year term. Ms. Thomas is the Director of Library Services at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, a library recognised for its leadership in the area of institutional repository implementation as well as participation in a number of national projects to digitise collection content.
Elected as a new alternate delegate for the same period 2008-2011, is Raymond Bérard, Director of ABES, the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education in France. Poul Erlandsen (National Library of Education, Denmark) is now Delegate at Large OCLC Members Council Executive Committee.
The Members Council provides advice and counsel to OCLC. Currently, there are 66 Members Council delegates who are elected by and represent OCLC member libraries in their respective regions. Eight of these delegates come from Europe, Middle East and Africa (with three alternate delegates).