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Günter Waibel is a Program Officer in OCLC Research. He focuses on describing, sharing, aggregating and disseminating cultural materials in a networked environment. Further areas of interest are the intersection of libraries, archives and museums, and the necessity for more collaborative approaches within and among different communities. Günter is actively involved in standards development and implementation in the art museum as well as natural history community, and believes that authority work needs to become a low-threshold social activity.
Günter is a board member of the Museum Computer Network (MCN), a past board member of the Association of American Museum's (AAM) Media&Technology Committee, and a regular attendee of Art Libraries Society (ARLIS/NA) conferences. He currently blogs at hangingtogether.org, and tweets as guwa. He teaches as adjunct faculty in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, New York, and has been a guest speaker in San Jose State University's Archival Studies program, and John F. Kennedy University's Museum Studies program.
Günter joined RLG at the beginning of 2003. In July 2006, he transitioned to OCLC Research following the combination of OCLC and RLG. Previously, he was Digital Media Developer at the UC Berkeley Art Museum&Pacific Film Archive, where he worked closely with the California Digital Library (CDL) and the project Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC). He was also Webmaster for the Oakland Museum of California. He has an MA in English Literature from Georgetown University.
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