Frederick Gridley Kilgour

The Frederick G. Kilgour Building, OCLC Headquarters in Dublin, Ohio.

January 6, 1914
Born, Springfield, Massachussetts

1935
A.B., Harvard College

1935—42
Harvard College Library
Assistant, Circulation and Reference Department 1935—1938
Assistant to Director 1938—1940
Chief, Circulation Department 1940—1942

1938
Publishes scholarly paper #1

1940
Marries Eleanor Beach

1942—45
Office of Strategic Services

1943—46
Lt., U.S. Naval Reserve, Active Duty

1946—48
U.S. Dept. of State
Deputy Director, Office of Intelligence, Collection and Dissemination

1948—1967
Yale University
Librarian, Yale Medical Library 1948—1965
Fellow, Davenport College 1950—1967
Lecturer in the History of Science 1950—1959
Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine 1961—1967
Associate Librarian for Research and Development 1965—1967

1967
Founds OCLC, serves as first Executive Director and President

1967—1984
The Ohio State University, Professor of Library Administration

1971
Creates WorldCat

1978
Founds OCLC Office of Research

1979
Creates OCLC Online Interlibrary Loan

1980
Steps down as OCLC President & Chief Executive Officer

1981—1984
OCLC Board of Trustees
Vice Chair, New Ventures 1981—1983
Founder Trustee 1984

1984—1987
Director, International Electronic Publishing Research Centre
Chairman of the Board, Applied Information Technologies Research Center

1990—2004
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Distinguished Research Professor

1995
Resigns from OCLC Board of Trustees

1998
Publishes The Evolution of the Book

2004
Publishes scholarly paper #205

July 31, 2006
Dies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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