Kemberly Meiners Lang Email & Phone Number

Dublin, Oh

Responsible for the planning, deploying and managing of OCLC Library operations and services to OCLC employees. Sets priorites, provides structure for collaboration and strategicvally advances library initiatives that align the mission and innovative direction of OCLC. Also develops, maintains and promotes OCLC's corporate heritage, including the OCLC Museum, archives and records, in both digital and analog format.

Dublin, Oh

Manage the OCLC Archive and Museum collections as part of the OCLC Library team. Develop and execute the strategic vision and priorities for collecting materials of permanent value to OCLC. Promote the use and understanding of the collections and communicate the value of corporate heritage for public relations and pro bono activities of OCLC. Coordinate corporate records retention policies with other areas within OCLC as well as coordinate access to OCLC’s digital assets via intranet, OCLC Library website and OCLC Archive. Provide instructional and research assistance for OCLC staff as part of the OCLC Library team.

• Responsible for all aspects of product planning and development of OCLC’s WorldCat Local discovery search tool. • Provides critical input to the product marketing team in product release and promotional efforts. • Produces product strategy, roadmaps, annual product plans, business cases, and monthly product reviews, launch plans, white papers, product presentations, market messaging, event support, competitive write-up and user personas.• Contributes to the production of the following for additional discovery offerings: Portfolio business plans, strategies, roadmaps, metrics, and operational plans; portfolio progress plans and reviews; user requirements and functional specs.• Assists in the development of strategies for customer acquisition and retention; manages relationships with user groups and assists sales team in generation of marketing and awareness plans.

• Supervised Battelle’s Technical Library team, and facilitated all technical library systems and services made available to serve Battelle research and engineering staff information needs worldwide. Led team of 8 staff: 4 librarians, 3 library assistants and 1 library clerk located in two geographic locations – Columbus, OH and Seattle, WA.• Managed annual $2M library budget which included funding for library subscriptions such as access to over 2000 electronic and print journals, approximately 100 databases, and provided federated search tools to make accessing library collections more effective for users.• Prepared business plans and annual objectives with milestones for all library functions and services.• Provided reference librarian assistance for Battelle research and engineering staff on a daily basis by searching research databases and internal sources of company knowledge.• Facilitated training sessions on library databases and software via ‘one-on-one’ or group settings to provide library users a better understanding of how to perform more successful database searches.• Hosted library vendor product presentations and special guest lecturers as part of library outreach endeavor to engage Battelle staff as well as highlight relevant library resources and services.• Negotiated subscription renewals with library vendors and publishers on an annual basis. Compared prices with competitors or considered multi-year agreements to achieve best value for library materials budget. • Acknowledged repeatedly by users for delivering library research results on-time and under budget.

Mls, Library Science

Ba, History/Computer Science