KU chancellor joins board of international library cooperative

Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has been elected to the board of trustees for the world’s largest library cooperative.

She joins the 15-member board of OCLC, a nonprofit computer library service and research organization dedicated to furthering access to information and reducing library costs.

More than 71,000 libraries in 112 countries have used OCLC services, and the organization publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

Also joining the board is John R. Patrick, president of Attitude LLC consulting and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM.