NISO Announces New Board Officers to Lead the Organization into 2011
Baltimore, MD - June 30, 2010 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) members have elected Bruce Heterick to serve as Vice Chair of the NISO Board of Directors for the 2010-2011 term that begins on July 1, 2010. Heterick is Vice President, Outreach & Participation Services for Portico and JSTOR and a current member of NISO's Board. He has spent over twenty years in the higher education and library communities, written and presented extensively on information management issues, and is active in the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and EDUCAUSE in addition to NISO.
"I'm excited to have the opportunity to work with the libraries, publishers, and information providers that have made NISO such a valuable organization," stated Heterick. "Given the speed of change that we are all dealing with, developing and implementing industry standards that are timely and relevant has never been more important."
Janice Fleming, Director of Business and Planning/PsycINFO, American Psychological Association, will transition from the current Vice Chair position to become the Chair of the NISO Board for the 2010-2011 term. Fleming has extensive experience in the publishing and indexing & abstracting businesses. Current Chair, Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology, CrossRef, will become Immediate Past Chair.
"NISO has more active development projects underway now than at any time in its history," said Fleming. "In addition, the scope of the projects is much broader than at times past, encompassing everything from physical delivery of library materials, OpenURL knowledge bases and metrics, authentication, and RFID to institutional identifiers, journal article markup, and supplemental journal materials. I'm honored to be able to lead the organization during a time of such growth and expansion."
A separate election will be held to fill Heterick's vacated Director's position. The following individuals will continue their terms on the NISO Board in 2010-2011:
- Nancy Barnes, Nancy Barnes, Standards Consultant
- Nancy Davenport, President, Nancy Davenport & Associates
- John Harwood, Senior Director, Teaching and Learning with Technology, Pennsylvania State University
- Charles Lowry, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries
- Barbara Preece (Treasurer), Dean of the Library, California State University, San Marco
- Heather Reid, Director of Data Systems, Copyright Clearance Center
- Winston Tabb, Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
- Bruce Rosenblum, CEO, INERA, Inc.
- Mike Teets, Vice President Enterprise Architecture, OCLC
"Despite the challenging economic environment, we are grateful that our members provide support for such an esteemed group of industry leaders to contribute to NISO's leadership," said Todd Carpenter, Managing Director of NISO. "The diversity of NISO's community continues to be exemplified by the Board of NISO and under their leadership the Organization will continue to extend its leadership in the information exchange community."
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 or by contacting NISO at (301) 654-2512 or via email on nisohq@niso.org.
