The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global nonprofit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced that Nancy Blair-DeLeon will become its new Director of Professional Development.
In this role, Blair-DeLeon will be responsible for directing all professional development programs for NFAIS. She will collaborate with NFAIS Committees to develop educational content, including identification of potential speakers and topics, and be responsible for planning, evaluation and implementation of professional development activities for the NFAIS membership and the larger information industry.
Blair-DeLeon has extensive knowledge of and experience in the information services field relative to database producers, primary publishers, information aggregators, commercial, public and academic libraries and workflow solution providers. As a senior manager at IEEE, among other duties, she led a team of IEEE colleagues and volunteers to launch a series of free live authorship workshops to enable engineers, faculty, researchers, authors, and industry professionals to help advance technology and their careers by enhancing their ability to get published and share their research with the broader scholarly community.
In addition, Blair-DeLeon has long been active with NFAIS as a member volunteer, including service as a member of the NFAIS Board of Directors (2014-2015), and continuing service on its Discovery Code of Practice Task Force and Workshop Planning Committee.
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