NFAIS Announces New Governance for 2003

Philadelphia, PA, March 3, 2003 - NFAIS, the premier membership organization for groups that aggregate, organize and facilitate access to information, announced today its new governance for the coming year. Marjorie Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. is the incoming President. Newly-elected members of the Board of Directors include:

• Bernard Aleva, President/CEO, Elsevier Engineering Information Inc. (Ei)
• Walter L. Finch, Director, Program Planning, National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

In addition, three Board members were re-elected to serve a second term:

• Kevin Bouley, President, Nerac, Inc. (Board Treasurer)
• David Brown, Senior Vice President, Content Development, The Dialog Corporation
• Terence Ford, Head, Research Databases, Getty Research Institute (Board Secretary)

NFAIS Executive Director, Bonnie Lawlor, announced that the association's membership has chosen current Board member Linda Sacks, Senior Vice President, Product Development and Marketing, BIOSIS, as President-Elect 2003.

"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 represent some 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, and are focused on ensuring that NFAIS evolves to meet the needs, wants and expectations of its diverse and changing membership. I look forward to working with them in the months to come."

Current members of the NFAIS Board of Directors include: Michael W. Dennis; Special Assistant to the Director, CAS and Immediate Past-President; Linda A. Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO, American Psychological Association; Matt Dunie, President, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Lucian Parziale, Vice President, Information Systems, The H. W. Wilson Company, and Sally Sinn, Associate Director for Technical Services Division, National Agricultural Library.

Further details regarding NFAIS and its activities are available at the NFAIS Web site: www.nfais.org or by contacting Jill O’Neill, Director, Planning and Communications, NFAIS, 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 307, Philadelphia, PA (phone: 215-893-1561; Email: jilloneill@nfais.org).

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