The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced that Judith Russell, the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida, has been selected to receive the NFAIS 2017 Miles Conrad Award.
NFAIS's Miles Conrad Award, long considered the information community's premier annual honour for achievement in fostering the growth of information services, is being given to Russell in recognition of her significant achievements in librarianship and for her leadership in information services throughout a career spanning academia, government, the non-profit and private sectors.
Prior to her current position at the University of Florida, Russell was the Managing Director, Information Dissemination and Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), now the Government Publishing Office, from 2003-2007.
She served as Deputy Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) from 1998-2003 and as director of the Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services and the Federal Depository Library Program at GPO from 1991-1997.
Russell also worked for over ten years in the information industry, doing marketing and product development as well as serving as a government-industry liaison. Her corporate experience includes Information Handling Services (IHS) and its parent company, the Information Technology Group; Disclosure Information Group; Lexis-Nexis (then Mead Data Central), and IDD Digital Alliances, a subsidiary of Investment Dealers Digest. She also worked for over 10 years in special libraries.
Russell currently serves as a member of the board of LLMC-Digital. She also is a former board member and president of NFAIS. She is a former board member and past president of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and a former board member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). She is active in the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Russell holds a Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Russell will be honored at the NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference, February 26-28, in Alexandria, VA, and will deliver the annual Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture at the conference. Nominations for the Miles Conrad Award are submitted by the NFAIS Board, committees, staff and membership. The awardee is chosen by a committee including the Board and other members.
The NFAIS Miles Conrad Award and Memorial Lecture are named in honour of G. Miles Conrad (1911-1964), co-founder of NFAIS. Conrad, who was the former president of BIOSIS, had an early grasp of the potential of computer technology when applied to the creation, organisation and dissemination of research information. The NFAIS Miles Conrad Lecturers each year are industry leaders, innovators and opinion-makers representing the full breadth of the information services community.
Recent recipients of the Miles Conrad Award include Deanna Marcum, former Managing Director, Ithaka S+R; Tim Collins, President & CEO of EBSCO Industries; Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc.; Robert N. Snyder, Chairman, Cambridge Information Group; Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive, The British Library; and Donald A.B. Lindberg, National Library of Medicine.
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