Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) has appointed Lorraine Estelle as project director, effective summer 2015. Estelle will succeed Peter Shepherd, who will retire this summer, after 13 years as COUNTER director.
Lorraine brings a wealth of valuable, highly relevant experience to the position. She has worked for Jisc (The UK Joint Information Systems Committee) since 2002 and was Chief Executive of Jisc Collections from 2006 to 2015. In this capacity she has worked closely with publishers and librarians on all aspects of national procurement and licensing activities. Of particular relevance to COUNTER is her role in setting up the UK Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP), which provides a one stop shop for the management by UK academic libraries of COUNTER usage statistics. In addition to her responsibilities at Jisc, Lorraine has been an energetic participant in wider information industry initiatives and organisations. She is currently Co-editor of Insights: the UKSG Journal.
COUNTER is a multi-agency international initiative whose objective is to develop a set of internationally accepted, extendible Codes of Practice that allows the usage of online information products and services to be measured more consistently.
