I just got back from the first ever OCLC EMEA Regional Council meeting in The Netherlands.  Much has been written and discussed regarding OCLC’s governance changes, but that is not really what I wanted to address.  This meeting was the best I have ever seen for non-US participants and members for OCLC.  And I’m not just saying that because OCLC’s Web-scale strategy was a central part of the discussion.  OK, that is why I’m saying it. “EMEA”–Europe, Middle East, and Africa–is completely an American invention, used to simplify business dealings across an entire region.  OCLC certainly didn’t invent it, but …