Günter
Günter Waibel is a Program Officer for OCLC Research. He focuses on sharing, aggregating and disseminating cultural materials in a networked environment, particularly from a museum and art library perspective. Further areas of interest are the intersection of libraries, archives and museums, and the necessity for more collaborative approaches within and among different communities. He currently manages the Museum Data Exchange Project (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation), which creates tools and models behaviors for data sharing in the museum community, and facilitates the Single Search for Library, Archive & Museum Collections working group.
He has recently co-authored the following OCLC Research reports:
- “Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share” (2010)
- “Catalyzing Collaboration: Seven New York City Libraries” (2009)
- “An Art Resource in New York: The Collective Collection of the NYARC Art Museum Libraries” (2008)
- “Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums” (2008)
Günter currently blogs at hangingtogether.org, and tweets as GuWa. He is a past board member of the Museum Computer Network (MCN) (2003-2009) and the Association of American Museum’s (AAM) Media & Technology Committee (2004-2007). He has taught as adjunct faculty in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, New York (2004-2008), and currently teaches for the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
Günter joined RLG at the beginning of 2003. In July 2006, he transitioned to OCLC Research following the combination of OCLC and RLG. Previously, he was Digital Media Developer at the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, where he worked closely with the California Digital Library (CDL) and the project Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC). He was also Webmaster for the Oakland Museum of California.
