OCLC names librarians to participate in 2009 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program
2009 Fellows are from Armenia, Kenya, Pakistan, Serbia, Uganda, and Zambia.
OCLC, along with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the American Theological Library Association, today named librarians chosen to participate in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2009.
The 2009 Jordan IFLA/OCLC Fellows were named by Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, at a news conference during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council in Québec, Canada. The 2009 Jordan IFLA/OCLC Fellows are:
 Mr. John Kiyaga Library Assistant, Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda |
 Miss Ani Minasyan Circulation/Reference Librarian, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia |
 Mr. Caleb Ouma Librarian, Nation Media Group, Nairobi, Kenya |
 Miss Saima Qutab Librarian, Directorate General Mines & Minerals, Lahore, Pakistan |
 Mr. Raymond Sikanyika Senior Library Assistant, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia |
 Ms. Vesna Vuksan Head, Library Development, Belgrade City Library, Belgrade, Serbia |
The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program supports library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. The program provides advanced continuing education and exposure to a broad range of issues in information technologies, library operations and global cooperative librarianship. Since its inception in 2001, the program has welcomed 44 librarians and information science professionals from 28 countries.
In May 2008, the OCLC Board of Trustees announced that OCLC would expand the program to include a sixth Fellow and that the program would be renamed the "Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program" in honour of Mr. Jordan's 10th anniversary as President and CEO of OCLC.