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MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Frederick G. Kilgour, 1914–2006

Fellowship Conferred: 1984

Honors and Awards

MLA

Fellow, 1984
MLA Most Notable, 1998
Academy of Health Information Professionals

Other Awards

Kilgour Award, OCLC and the Library and Information Technology Association, named for Fred Kilgour, presented annually
American Library Association, Honorary Life Membership, 1982
American Society for Information Technology, Award of Merit, 1979
Honorary degrees from five universities
US Naval Reserve, Legion of Merit, 1945

Other Accomplishments and Activities

OCLC, Developer and President
Information Technology and Libraries, Founder and First Editor

Publications (5 representative)

Articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association or Journal of the Medical Library Association are available via PubMed Central.

Kilgour FG. The evolution of the book. Oxford University Press; 1998.
Kilgour FG. Effectiveness of surname-title-words searches by scholars. J Am Soc Inf Sci. 1995 Mar;46(2):146–51.
Kilgour FG, Long PL, Landgraf AL, Wyckoff JA. Shared cataloging system of Ohio-College Library-Center. J Lib Autom. 1972;5(3):157–83.
Stangl P, Kilgour FG. Analysis of recorded biomedical book and journal use in the Yale Medical Library. I. date and subject relations and II. Subject and user relations. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1967 Jul;55(3):290–315.
Kilgour FG. Mechanization of cataloging procedures Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1965 Apr;53(2):52–62.

Positions

Research Professor Emeritus, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1990–2004
Board of Directors, OCLC, 1981–1995
Founding President and Executive Director, OCLC, 1967–1980
Librarian, Medical Library, Yale University, 1948–1966
Lecturer in the History of Science and Technology, Yale University, 1948–1966
Deputy Director, Office of Intelligence Collection and Dissemination, US Department of State, 1946–1948
Executive Secretary and Acting Chairman, Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications, US Naval Reserve, 1942–1945
Assistant Librarian, Library, Harvard College 1936–1942

MLA published statements about the fellow

McKenzie D, Pifalo V. The Oral History Program: II. personal views of health sciences librarianship and the Medical Library Association. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1998 Jul;86(3):366–76; p. 371–2.
Grix LA, ed. Honors and awards. Proceedings, eighty-fourth annual meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. Denver, Colorado, May 25–31, 1984. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1985 Jan;73(1):94–119.
Hodges TM. Collected papers of Frederick G. Kilgour [book review]. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1985 Jan;73(1):76–7.
Watterson RM. Transcript of oral interview with Frederick G. Kilgour: 11 May 1985. (Print copies of the oral history can be found through the Regional Medical Libraries. An oral history summary and photo are available at http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/kilgour_f.html. [cited 23 Jan 2012].)
Ruxin OK. OCLC: a decade of development, 1967–1977 [book review]. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1985 Jan;73(1):75–6.

Education

MLS, library science, School of Library Sciences, Columbia University
BS, chemistry, Harvard University, 1935

Contributed by Diane McKenzie

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