Jay Weitz

Jay has long been involved in WorldCat bibliographic quality control and record matching, OCLC-MARC validation, the Member Merge Project, the Virtual AskQC Office Hours, and the maintenance of OCLC’s Bibliographic Formats and Standards.  He created the seven-session “Cataloging Defensively” series of presentations.  For many years, he coordinated OCLC’s Enhance Program.  He serves as OCLC liaison to numerous organizations, including the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG), Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC), the Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC) of the Music Library Association (MLA), the Committee on Cataloging:  Description and Access (CC:DA) of the American Library Association (ALA), the MARC Advisory Committee (MAC), and the Standing Committee on Standards of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).  He also sits on the Bibliography Standing Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), represents the IFLA Cataloguing Standing Committee on CC:DA, and is Secretary of IFLA’s Permanent UNIMARC Committee.

Before coming to OCLC in 1982, Jay was a cataloger at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio.  He is the author of Cataloger's Judgment (2004), both editions of Music Coding and Tagging (1990 and 2001), and the cataloging Q&A columns of the MOUG Newsletter and the OLAC Newsletter.  Since 1992, catalogers throughout North America and Japan have been subjected to dozens of his workshops.  He was the recipient of the MOUG Distinguished Service Award in 2004, OLAC's Nancy B. Olson Award in 2005, and the Music Library Association’s lifetime achievement award and highest honor, the MLA Citation in 2019.