NISO Elects New Vice Chair and Directors to Serve Community

Baltimore, MD -- June 22, 2011 -- The membership of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has elected new leadership for the 2011-2012 term that begins on July 1, 2011. Bruce Heterick, Vice President, Outreach & Participation Services for Portico and JSTOR, who was elected last year and has served as Vice Chair during the current term, will become Chair of NISO for the 2011-12 term. Barbara Preece has been elected to serve as Vice Chair of the NISO Board of Directors. She will transition into the chairmanship in the 2012-13 term. Preece is Dean of the Library, California State University, San Marcos. She has been active in library and library consortium management for many years, and has written extensively in the area of patron initiated interlibrary loan and document delivery. She currently serves as a member of NISO's Board of Directors.
"As issues surrounding digital distribution of information and scholarship push the boundaries of our formerly print-based world, NISO has a great deal of opportunity before us," said Heterick, the incoming Chair. "It is a unique organization in our community, providing an open forum for libraries, publishers and system developers to discuss together the direction and impact of technology. Community solutions are forged, vetted, and eventually implemented. Helping to lead the organization in this exciting time will be a great honor."

"I am very excited about the opportunity to serve the community as part of NISO's leadership," said Preece. "Working with the other Directors and staff, I hope to continue to raise the organization's profile and extend its reach, particularly in emerging areas such as e-books, a focus area for NISO in the near term."

The following industry leaders were also elected to seats on the NISO Board of Directors.

  • Gerry Grenier, Director of Publishing Technologies, IEEE
  • Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology, CrossRef
  • Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  • Mike Teets, Vice President, Innovation, OCLC

These new members will join the following Directors who will continue their terms through 2011-12 in managing and setting strategic direction for the organization.

  • Nancy Dupres Barnes, Independent Standards Consultant
  • John Harwood, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
  • Charles Lowry, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries
  • Heather Reid, Director of Data Systems, Copyright Clearance Center
  • Winston Tabb, Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
  • Janice Fleming, Director of Business and Planning at American Psychological Association, who is currently serving as NISO's Chair, will replace Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology at CrossRef, in the role as Past Chair.
  • Bruce Rosenblum, President of INERA, Inc., will serve as NISO's Treasurer in the coming term at the appointment of the Chair.

"NISO is fortunate indeed to have such accomplished and experienced industry leaders able to serve on its Board and provide guidance to the organization," said Todd Carpenter, Managing Director of NISO. "NISO's community is well represented by the new group of Directors, and the organization will continue to advance its mission under their leadership."

About NISO
NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org. For more information please contact NISO on (301) 654-2512 or via email on nisohq@niso.org.

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