Alane Wilson

OCLC

Alane Wilson graduated from the University of British Columbia's School of Library and Information Studies, in Vancouver, in 1986, and joined the staff of the University of Calgary (Alberta) Libraries the same year. She was a subject bibliographer, a reference librarian and a manager. In 1995, she was hired by the University of Alaska Fairbanks library as the Head of Reference and Instructional Services.

In 1997, Alane joined OCLC as a field sales representative for the Pacific Northwest region, and has since worked in marketing and business development at OCLC. In March 2003, she resigned from OCLC but this was shortlived as Jay Jordan (OCLC CEO) recruited her in June 2003 to work on the OCLC Environmental Scan. In addition to co-authoring and editing the Scan, she has published articles, spoken to many groups, and is one of three OCLC contributors to the "It's All Good" blog http://scanblog.blogspot.com/

After several consulting contracts for OCLC, Alane rejoined OCLC full-time in May 2004. She was born in London, England, is a Canadian citizen, and is married to an American.