The Association of American Publishers (AAP), US, has named John Tagler as Vice President and Executive Director of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP). Tagler comes on board April 21 and will be headquartered in the AAP New York office. He succeeds Barbara Meredith who retired last year.
Tagler comes to his AAP post after a 30-year career at Elsevier. He is an active member of the Special Libraries Association, the Medical Library Association, and the American Library Association. Starting as a library sales representative, he moved up the corporate ladder through journals marketing, sales, and marketing services, serving a 10-year stint as Director of Corporate Communications before becoming Vice President, Customer Marketing, Academic and Government Libraries. Also, he served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and spent five years as a member of the Executive Board of the North American Serials Interest Group.
The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry. Members of the AAP Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division publish the vast majority of materials used in the US by scholars and professionals in science, medicine, technology, business, law, reference, social science, and the humanities. The Division's 100 plus professional societies, commercial publishers and university presses produce books, journals, computer software, databases and electronic products.
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