NFAIS Announces New Governance for 2005-2006

Philadelphia, PA, March 1, 2005 – NFAIS, the premier membership organization for groups that aggregate, organize and facilitate access to information, announced today its new governance for the coming year. Lucian Parziale, Vice President, Information Systems, The H. W. Wilson Company is the incoming President, and Linda R. Sacks, Vice President, Business Strategy, Thomson Scientific, will continue to serve on the Board of Directors in the capacity of Immediate Past-President. Newly-elected members of the Board for a three-year term (2005 – 2008) include:

• David Gillikin, Head, MEDLARS Management Section, National Library of Medicine
• Janice Mears, Manager, Marketing Communications, Chemical Abstracts Service
• Judith Russell, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office  

In addition, Marjorie M. K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. was re-elected to serve an open two-year term (2005 – 2007) term.

NFAIS Executive Director, Bonnie Lawlor, announced that the association’s membership has chosen current Board member Linda Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO, of the American Psychological Association as its President-Elect 2005 - 2006.

“The new NFAIS governance represents a continuation of the experienced and dedicated leadership that has been an NFAIS hallmark,” commented Ms. Lawlor. “Our Board members are representative of the major global information and technology providers across all market sectors – private, non-profit and government. They have 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 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 months to come.”

Current members of the NFAIS Board of Directors include: Kevin A. Bouley, President, Nerac, Inc., David Brown, General Manager, Dialog/DataStar, a Thomson business, Matt Dunie, President, CSA, Terence Ford, Head, Research Databases, The J. Paul Getty Trust, and John Regazzi, Managing Director, Market Development, Elsevier.

Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a membership organization of approximately 50 of the world’s leading producers of databases, information services, and information technology 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).

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