The COUNTER Board has announced the appointment of Tasha Mellins-Cohen as the new Project Director. She will succeed Lorraine Estelle who has held the position since 2015 and will be retiring in April 2022. COUNTER has provided the standard that enables the knowledge community to count the use of electronic resources in a consistent, credible and comparable way since its foundation in 2003.
Tasha has worked very closely with COUNTER for a number of years and has been actively engaged on a range of committees including the Executive Committee and the Technical Advisory Group. She has significant relevant experience, having worked with publishers, vendors, libraries and standards bodies. She combines the capacity for a strategic vision with the ability to be hands-on which are essential in a small, but critically important organisation that achieves its goals largely through volunteer support.
Tasha will start in the role in April 2022, and Lorraine will work in parallel with Tasha during a short transition period to ensure a smooth handover.
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