Cindy Hilsheimer elected to OCLC Board of Trustees - November 9, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that Cindy Hilsheimer has been elected to serve on the OCLC Board of Trustees. Hilsheimer is principal and founder of SC search consultants, llc (SC), an executive search firm established in 1999. Hilsheimer will replace David Lauer, who… Read More
Senior editorial team for new OA research journal announced - November 8, 2011
The senior editorial team has been named for eLife, the new open-access research journal scheduled for launch in 2012 with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust. The team includes internationally-renowned, active researchers from Europe, North… Read More
Martyn Harrow appointed new Head of JISC - November 8, 2011
The UK' Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced the appointment of Martyn Harrow, Director of Information Services at Cardiff University, as Head of JISC. The appointment is for a fixed term of 9-18 months, beginning February 1, 2012. He will succeed Dr Malcolm Read who… Read More
APA elects Drexel Professor Donald N. Bersoff as 2013 president - November 7, 2011
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that Dr. Donald N. Bersoff, Drexel University professor and national expert on legal and ethical issues in mental health, has been elected 2013 president. Bersoff serves on the faculties of Drexel's psychology department and Earle Mack School of… Read More
CTB/McGraw-Hill forms Publishing Advisory Board to help develop next generation of K–12 assessments - November 2, 2011
Education assessments provider CTB/McGraw-Hill, US, has announced the creation of a Publishing Advisory Board that will guide the company as it works to develop assessments that reflect the goals of the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The Board's experience in developing assessments and their insight into the CCSS and… Read More
Elsevier appoints new Editor-in-Chief for Digital Signal Processing journal - October 31, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Ercan Engin Kuruoglu, Senior Research Scientist at Italian National Council of Research (CNR), Institute of Science and Technology of Information (ISTI), "A. Faedo", Pisa, has been named the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Digital Signal Processing.… Read More
Credo Reference names Gina McCue as VP, Strategic Accounts - October 31, 2011
Online reference service provider Credo Reference, US, has announced that Gina McCue has joined the company as Vice President, Strategic Accounts. She will leverage her experience as a successful senior executive to lead the work with institutions on adoption and implementation of Credo's recently announced solution,… Read More
SPARC Europe appoints Lars Bjørnshauge as Interim Director - October 25, 2011
Lars Bjørnshauge has been appointed to the role of Interim Director for SPARC Europe. The announcement was made by Bas Savenije, Chair of the SPARC Europe Board. Bjørnshauge, formerly Director of Libraries at Lund University in Sweden and a long-standing member of the SPARC Europe Board,… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health names Jayne Marks as Vice President of Publishing - October 25, 2011
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the appointment of Jayne Marks as Vice President, Publishing, at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals, part of its Medical Research business unit. In her new role, Marks will be responsible for driving LWW’s journal strategy… Read More
OCLC’s Executive Search Committee names librarians, staff and other library leaders to Community Advisory Group - October 24, 2011
The Executive Search Committee of the OCLC Board of Trustees has named 13 people to a Community Advisory Group that will be involved in the search for the next President and Chief Executive Officer of OCLC to succeed Jay Jordan, who has announced his plans to… Read More
