NFAIS Board: 2010 - 2011

President
Judith Russell
University of Florida
Dean of University Libraries
Judith Russell

  Judith Russell is currently the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida. Prior to this position she was the Superintendent of Documents at the U. S. Government Printing Office, a position that she held from 2003 to early 2007. Russell also served as Deputy Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), the Federal agency that advises the President and the Congress on the information needs of the American people. There she helped develop and implement Commission policy and was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the agency from 1998 until she accepted the appointment as Superintendent of Documents. From 1991 to 1996, Russell was Director of GPO's Office of Electronic Information Services (EIDS). Russell's special library experience includes COMSAT Laboratories, the Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology at The George Washington University, and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment.She also has provided management, marketing, and technical services for private technology companies including Mead Data Central and the Disclosure Information Group. Russell is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, where she received a Master of Science in Library Science. She received her Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, from Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross, Washington, DC.

President-Elect
Executive Vice President
Scientific and Scholarly Research
Thomson Reuters, Healthcare & Science
 

Keith MacGregor is currently Executive Vice President, Scientific and Scholarly Research, at Thomson Reuters, Healthcare & Science. Prior to this appointment he was the Executive Vice President of the Academic and Government strategic business unit for Thomson Reuters Scientific business unit (f/k/a Institute for Scientific Information), based in their Philadelphia, PA headquarters. He has overall responsibility for this group, with functional accountability for business strategy, sales, marketing, product development, editorial and publisher relations. He has played a central role in the development and ongoing enhancement of the ISI Web of Knowledge and Web of Science databases. Keith joined ISI in 1994 and has held editorial, development and sales positions over the past 15 years.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Keith held a number of senior management positions at International Data Group (IDG) in Boston and Warren Gorham & Lamont publishers in New York City. Keith received his BA from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

Past-President
Terence Ford
Head, Research Databases
The J. Paul Getty Trust
 

Terence Ford is the Head of Research Databases at the
Getty Research Institute. He has been the editor of the MLA Bibliography, of the Modern Language Association, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, and RIdIM/RCMI Inventories of Music Iconography. Terry served on the NFAIS Board
from 2003 - 2006 and completed the first year of a new three-year term in February 2008 when he was elected President for 2009.

Secretary
Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie
RILM Editor-in-Chief
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie is editor-in-chief of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and Director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Center's publications include RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, How to Write about Music: The RILM Manual of Style, the journal Music in Art, and the French opera in facsimile series. Dr. Mackenzie received her Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Michigan. Publications, in addition to RILM, include several articles on the Baglioni family of 18th-century opera singers for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and "Neapolitan Comic Opera in Naples and in Rome: Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnammorato and Latilla's La finta cameriera" for Studi pergolesiana 3 (1999), as well as a number of bibliographic articles. Dr. Mackenzie is active in the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (chair: annual RILM sessions), the Music Library Association, and the American Musicological Society (for which she has served on the Committee for Career-Related Issues). Before coming to RILM, Dr. Mackenzie taught music history at Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan. She is active as a singer in New York City and serves on the board of Tannery Pond Concerts.

Treasurer
Suzanne BeDell
General Manager
Dialog
 

Suzanne BeDell currently is the General Manager of Dialog and leads its global operations. She was appointed to this position in July 2008, when Dialog became part of the ProQuest family. Prior to joining Dialog, Suzanne was Senior Vice President of Publishing, where she managed ProQuest's Higher Education Publishing area. She joined ProQuest in 2001 as Vice President and Publisher and played instrumental roles in the acquisition of Serials Solutions, the expansion of Chadwyck-Healey's publishing program, and the development of such critically-acclaimed products as Black Studies Center and ProQuest Central, the world's largest aggregated full-text database.
Before ProQuest, Suzanne was Senior Vice-President of Internet Products at Thomson Healthcare and Director of Electronic Product Development for Mosby, Inc., a Times-Mirror Company. She also held the role of Publisher at Mosby and launched Mosby's GenRx (now Mosby's Drug Consult), one of the first web-based applications produced by a medical publisher. Suzanne also held a variety of positions in McGraw-Hill's College Division, including as Publisher for Primis, the first electronic custom publishing system in Higher Education.
Suzanne holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Drake University. She maintains offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Morrisville, North Carolina. 

BOARD MEMBERS
 

David Brown
President
Thomson Reuters IP Solutions
 

David Brown is the President of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters. In this role, he is responsible for meeting the needs of intellectual property professionals around the globe and managing the business's patent and trademark solutions.
During his 20 years in the information industry, David has held a variety of senior management roles, having previously served as executive vice president of Corporate Markets for the Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters. Prior to that, he held a number of executive positions with Dialog, including executive vice president and general manager, as well as senior vice president of NewsEdge following its acquisition by Thomson.
David holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina and bachelor's degrees from the University of Notre Dame in history and computer science. David also serves on the board of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS). He is based in London.

Mark Gauthier
Vice President, Indexing and Editorial Services
The H. W. Wilson Company

Mark Gauthier was appointed Vice President, Indexing and Editorial Services of the H. W. Wilson Company in December 2006. He joined Wilson in 1988 as an indexer for Library Literature. He was editor of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature before becoming Director of Indexing Services in 2001. He had been appointed Director of Indexing and Editorial Services in February 2006.
Mr. Gauthier currently manages the editorial and production operations of ten periodical indexes, the Wilson retrospective databases, full text services, and Current Biography. He also oversees Wilson's name and subject authority files. In addition, he coordinates the editorial studies conducted by the American Library Association's Committee on Wilson Indexes.
Mr. Gauthier earned the B.A. in French from the University of Vermont and the M.S.L.S. from Catholic University of America. He is also enrolled in the M.B.A. program in Operations Management at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is a member of the American Library Association and the American Society for Information Science & Technology. 
 

David Gillikin
Chief, Bibliographic Services Division
National Library of Medicine

David Gillikin is currently Chief, Bibliographic Services Division, at the National Library of Medicine where he most recently served as Head of the MEDLARS Management Section. David has an extensive and varied background in information. David was an Assistant Professor and Science Librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an information/database analyst at Oak Ridge National Laboratories and at BRS Information Technologies. As a contractor, he oversaw the development of document management and corresponding tracking systems of the Office of The Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He developed and managed the Science Online web sites for Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) where he served as the Electronic Media Manager. As a Technical Manager at HighWire Press, he managed the development and implementation of the HighWire Search portal among other projects.
David has a B.S. in biology from Belmont Abbey College, NC, and an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also has completed all coursework for a doctorate in biochemistry, at the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
 

Ellen Herbst
Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Commerce
U.S. Department of Commerce
 

Ellen Herbst joined the federal government as Director, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), effective July 11, 2005. As an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIS serves our nation as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. She has since been appointed as
Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Commerce.

Ellen has spent 25 years in private industry with extensive involvement with growing businesses in the security, processing and imaging systems markets. She has held senior management positions at Spectra Systems Corporation, a supplier of security materials, and Giesecke & Devrient America, a supplier of banknotes, security documents and currency automation systems. Ms. Herbst has also held various key management positions at E.I. DuPont De Nemours and Company where she served as Business Manager for their Digital Systems and Equipment Service Divisions. In addition to these qualifications Ellen has extensive experience in financial and strategic planning and integration of acquisitions.
Ellen received her B.S. in Economics and Accounting in 1979 from The University of Delaware and her M.B.A. in 1995 from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. She will complete the second year of a two-year term in February 2009.
 

Chris McCue
Vice President, Marketing 
CAS 

Chris McCue, Vice President, Marketing, has been with CAS since 1988. Ms. McCue began her career at CAS in the Editorial Division and has held a variety of positions in Marketing, with the majority of her experience in Product Marketing. Prior to CAS, Ms. McCue held supervisory positions as an analytical chemist at Battelle Memorial Institute and Roxanne Labs. She is currently responsible for global marketing of CAS products including functions such as brand management, promotions, product management, operations, and pricing strategies. Ms. McCue holds a B.A. in Chemistry and an M.B.A., both from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Judy Salk
Director, Editorial Operations
Elsevier Engineering Information
 

Judy Salk has worked in the information industry for nearly 25 years, managing print and electronic publishing, data migration and digitization, and automation projects, with a focus on bibliographic data management and control. She is currently the Director of Editorial Operations for Engineering Information (Ei) at Elsevier, where she is in charge of content development, quality control, and indexing operations for Ei's A&I databases, including Compendex. Before joining Elsevier, she was the Director of Product Management and Development for Serials, and Serials Editorial Director at Bowker. She has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and attended graduate school at the University of Chicago.

Lynn Willis
Content Development Manager
Amer4ica Psychological Association 

 Lynn Willis is the Content Development Manager for the American Psychological Association/PsycINFO. Her group is responsible for seeking out journal and book content for PsycINFO and gray literature for PsycEXTRA. They research journals, survey editors, develop assessment tools, etc. A good example of her work is on APA's current neuroscience expansion -- moving from pure psychology to including cellular and molecular neuroscience, neuroimaging, computational modeling, and other more biological and chemistry-oriented content. Lynn has a science background and worked on magazines and web content at the American Chemical Society (ACS) before she became managing editor for a group of FASEB journals. She has been with APA for 4 years.