Nathan Putnam is the Director of Metadata Quality at OCLC and oversees the teams of specialists working on data quality for several OCLC products. He has over 15 years of experience working in multiple academic libraries, first as a cataloger and database maintenance specialist and more recently as the head of the metadata/cataloging department before joining OCLC. Nathan holds degrees in Library and Information Science from Wayne State University and in Music from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.