Edward T. O'Neill, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

My current work focuses on authority control, subject analysis, database quality, preservation, and collection management. I joined the OCLC Research staff as a Senior Research Scientist in 1983, and served as co-acting Director of Research from 1993 until 1994. I did my graduate work at Purdue University in Operations Research. I was on the faculty of the School of Information and Library Studies at the University at Buffalo, and was later Dean of the Matthew A. Baxter School of Library and Information Science at Case Western Reserve University.

Projects

Publications

• "Mapping WorldCat's Digital Landscape." 2007. With Brian F. Lavoie and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), 51,2 (April): 106-115. Available online at: http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/pubs/librestechsvc/freecontent/LRTS_51n2Lavoie.pdf (.pdf: 522K/10 pp.).
• "Changing Global Book Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries." 2007. With Mary E. Jackson, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, and Eudora Loh. Report prepared for the Global Resources Network. Available online at: http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/grn_global_book.shtml or http://www.crl.edu/grn/papers/grn_global_book.asp.
• "Last Copies: What's at Risk?" 2006. With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Chandra Prabha. College and Research Libraries, 67,4 (July): 370-379. Pre-print available online at: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2006/connaway-crl07.pdf (PDF:151K/24pp.)

Presentations

• FAST: A Faceted LCSH-Based Subject Vocabulary (PowerPoint:2.0MB/35 slides) ALA Annual Conference, 24 June 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
• Mining for Digital Resources: Identifying and Characterizing Digital Materials in WorldCat (PowerPoint:112K/15slides). With Brian Lavoie and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. ACRL 12th National Conference: Currents and Convergence: Navigating the Rivers of Change, 7–10 April 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA).
• Estimating Audience Level of Monographs Using Holding Patterns in WorldCat (PowerPoint:32MB/29slides). With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Chandra Prabha. Library Research Seminar III: Learning and Growing; Inquiry into Librarianship, 14–16 October 2004, Kansas City, Missouri (USA).