[Asis-l] NISO Elects New Member to Board of Directors

[Vivian Miller]

NISO Elects New Member to Board of Directors,
  Two Board Members Elected to Serve a Second Term

Bethesda, MD, USA - (July 16, 2002) The Voting Members of the 
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have elected 
Deborah V. Loeding to serve on the NISO Board of Directors for a 
three-year term beginning, July 1, 2002.  Brian Green of BIC/EDitEUR 
and Richard E. Luce of Los Alamos National Laboratory were reelected 
and will serve second three-year terms.

Deborah Loeding is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at The H.W. 
Wilson Company. She has been involved in the Company's worldwide 
selling and marketing activities. Most recently she has been involved 
in the Company's web product development underscoring the need for 
interoperability among vendor services. Loeding has been with the 
H.W. Wilson Company for eighteen years and serves on its Board of 
Directors. Ms. Loeding has ten years experience as a librarian, 
having worked in college, public, and special libraries.  She is a 
graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana and holds B.A., M.A., 
and M.L.S. degrees.

Brian Green is Director of Book Industry Communication (BIC), set up 
by The UK Publishers Association, The Library Association, The 
Booksellers Association and The British Library to develop and 
promote standards for electronic commerce in the book and serials 
sectors.  He also manages EDitEUR, the international equivalent to 
BIC that is playing a leading role in developing the standards 
infrastructure for e-commerce and digital publishing.  As the manager 
of both national and international book and serials standards bodies, 
Mr. Green brings a global perspective to the NISO Board.  He has been 
a member of the NISO Board since 1997.

Richard Luce is the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National 
Laboratory and the Project leader of the Library Without Walls. In 
1996 Luce received the LANL Distinguished Performance Award for 
contributions supporting science and technology through the 
transformation of the Research Library.  Today, the Library Without 
Walls project is known internationally as one of the most pioneering 
and successful digital library efforts to date. Mr. Luce has over 
twenty years of library management and information systems 
experience.   He has been a member of the NISO Board since 1998.

Officers of the NISO Board include: Chairperson Beverly P. Lynch, 
Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, 
UCLA; Vice Chair/Chair Elect Jan Peterson, Vice President of Content 
Development, Infotrieve; Immediate Past Chair Donald J. Muccino, 
Executive Vice President, COO, OCLC, Inc.; Treasurer Carl Grant, 
President, Ex Libris USA; and Secretary Patricia Harris, Executive 
Director, NISO.  Other directors include: Pieter S. H. Bolman, 
Director, STM Relations, Elsevier Science; Chair of the NISO 
Standards Development Committee Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for 
Library Automation; Jose-Marie Griffiths, Doreen E. Boyce Chair and 
Professor & Director, Sara Fine Institute, University of Pittsburgh; 
Sally McCallum, Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, 
Library of Congress; Steven Puglia, Preservation and Imaging 
Specialist, U.S. National Archives & Records Administration; and 
Albert Simmonds, Business Manager, OID, OCLC, Inc.

About NISO:
NISO is the only U.S. group accredited by the American National 
Standards Institute to develop and promote technical standards for 
use in information delivery services providing voluntary standards 
for libraries, publishers and related information technology 
organizations.  All NISO standards are developed by consensus under 
the guidance of experts and practitioners in the field to meet the 
needs of both the information user and the producer.  For information 
about NISO's current standardization interests and membership 
possibilities, please visit the NISO website at http://www.niso.org.

For additional information contact NISO Headquarters at (301) 654-2512.
Email: nisohq at niso.org

Vivian Campagna
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda Avenue
Suite 300
Bethesda, MD  20814
T: 301-654-2512, F: 301-654-1721
vmiller at niso.org
www.niso.org
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