Nominations sought for new COUNTER Executive Committee members

["Ann Okerson" <aokerson@gmail.com>]

Nominations for new members sought

Two of the founding members of the COUNTER Executive Committee, 
Christine Fyfe and David Goodman, have recently decided to step 
down from this committee, as their professional roles have moved 
away from an involvement with usage statistics. David is now 
principally engaged as an Administrator on Wikipedia, while 
Christine has been appointed to the role of Pro-Vice-Chancellor 
at the University of Leicester, although retaining her overall 
responsibility as University Librarian. This has, therefore, 
created two vacancies on the Executive Committee, which the Board 
of Directors of COUNTER is now seeking to fill.

The COUNTER Executive Committee has overall responsibility for 
the direction and management of COUNTER. It meets 5-6 times per 
annum, with most members participating via a telephone conference 
call facility. Peter Shepherd, the Director responsible for the 
day-to-day management of COUNTER, is a member of the Executive 
Committee and reports to it. The Executive Committee includes 
representatives of the publisher, intermediary, library and 
library consortium communities.

In replacing Christine Fyfe and David Goodman, the Board of 
Directors of COUNTER is keen to consider any suitably qualified 
candidates and encourages nominations to be submitted. In order 
to maintain an appropriate balance on the Executive Committee we 
are seeking to appoint two candidates from the academic library 
community. Candidates should hold a senior position and have a 
good understanding of the strategic role of usage statistics in 
the management of library resources.

Nominations, which should be seconded, may be sent by email to 
Peter Shepherd at pshepherd@projectCounter.org to arrive no later 
than Friday November 23, 2007. The candidate, nominator and 
seconder should be openly copied on any email nominations 
submitted.

Executive Committee members serve for a term of three years, 
which is renewable.

Any queries about the role of the Executive Committee, or this 
appointment process may be directed to Peter Shepherd. The 
current membership of the COUNTER Executive Committee may be 
found on the COUNTER website at: 
<http://www.projectcounter.org/r2/Appendix_C_R2.doc>.

Peter Shepherd
Director
Counter Online Metrics