NFAIS Announces New Governance for 2009-2010

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 25, 2009  The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), the premier membership organization for all organizations that create, aggregate, organize and facilitate access to authoritative information, announced today its new governance for the coming year. Terence Ford, Head, Research Databases, the Getty Research Institute (The J. Paul Getty Trust), is the incoming President. David Brown, President, Intellectual Property Business Unit, Thomson Reuters, will continue to serve on the Board of Directors in the capacity of Immediate Past-President. Newly-elected members of the Board include:
• Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, Editor-in-Chief, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, 2009 - 2012

• Ellen Herbst, Director, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 2009 - 2012

• Keith MacGregor, Executive Vice President, Academic and Government Strategic Business Unit, Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters, 2009 - 2012

• Lynne Willis, Content Development Manager, American Psychological Association/PsycINFO, 2009 - 2011

• Suzanne BeDell, General Manager, Dialog, 2009 - 2010

NFAIS Executive Director, Bonnie Lawlor, announced that the association's membership has elected current Board member, Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, as President-Elect 2009 - 2010.

"The NFAIS Board is representative of the diverse Information Community. The directors are from major global information and technology providers across all market sectors - private, non-profit and government, and across all subject disciplines," commented Ms. Lawlor. "They embody the experienced and dedicated leadership that has been an NFAIS hallmark for the past fifty-one years, and have demonstrated a proven commitment to the organization and its membership. Indeed, under their leadership the organization has improved its finances and services, and membership has increased. Each individual Board Member - whether new to the Board or a continuing member - is focused on ensuring that NFAIS evolves to meet the needs, wants and expectations of its diverse and growing membership. I look forward to working with all of them in the year to come."

Current members of the NFAIS Board of Directors include: David Gillikin, Chief, Bibliographic Services, the National Library of Medicine, Janice Mears, Director, Communication, CAS, Lucian Parziale, Vice President, Information Services, The H. W. Wilson Company, and Rafael Sidi, Vice President, Product Development, Elsevier Engineering Information.

Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a membership organization of more than 60 of the world's leading producers of databases and related information services, information technology, and library services in the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and the arts and humanities. For more information on NFAIS and its member organizations, or on NFAIS Annual Conferences and meetings, contact Jill O'Neill, Director of Communication and Planning, NFAIS, 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA (phone: 215-893-1561; fax: 215-893-1564; email: jilloneill@nfais.org), or visit the NFAIS web site (www.nfais.org).