Education
Colgate University.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Jay Jordan
Edit ProfileCareer
He served as president of from 1998 to his retirement in June 2013. Jay Jordan earned a bachelor"s degree in English literature from Colgate University. He served in the United States. Army in Germany.
After working for 3M in Europe and the United States., he joined Information Handling Services, where he worked for 24 years and was president of one of its divisions, IHS Engineering.
In 1998, he became president and Chief Executive Officer of Jordan was the 4th president of, after Fred Kilgour, Rowland C.W. Brown and K. Wayne Smith. At the time Jordan joined, the nonprofit organization represented 30,000 libraries.
14 years later technological developments had completely changed the information society and the use of libraries. Jordan succeeded in helping to adapt to these new developments.
WorldCat, the largest catalog in the world, is still one of the flagships of, containing more than 290 million bibliographic records from 72,000 libraries around the world.
At the same time developed new services (like Question Point) and incorporated innovating firms like the Research Libraries Group (2006), PICA (2007), Ezproxy (2008) and OAIster (2009). sold NetLibrary in 2010. Recently, VIAF was implemented and hosted by VIAF is a service to link identical records from different data sets together, thereby making it easier for patrons to find e.g. books from Dostoyevsky/Dostoïevski
During Jordan"s presidency also created a library advocacy program ("Geek the library"). lieutenant invested in new computer infrastructure, so it could handle non-Roman scripts. introduced new initiatives to make libraries and their paper and digital holdings more visible.
CONTENTdm was set up to create better and stable online visibility for special collections and art treasures.
In June 2012 Jay Jordan announced that he would postpone his retirement and continue leading until June 2013. In May 2013 announced Skip Prichard to be the new Chief Executive Officer and President of as of July 2013.
