New NRC-CISTI Director General Named

NRC is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Pam Bjornson to the position of Director General of the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI). She will begin her new role on February 1, 2007.

Ms. Bjornson came to NRC-CISTI in 2001, and served as Director of Business Affairs through January 2007. In that position she was responsible for marketing, communications, administrative and client services, and created the partnership development function to support the goals of NRC-CISTI's Strategic Plan.   She also managed the particularly critical challenges of financial planning, risk management, and overall business planning and execution.

Ms. Bjornson has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, and brings 25 years of management experience to this position, including nine years as Executive Director of Canadiana.org, a not-for-profit organization established by the major Canadian university libraries and the National Library of Canada to preserve Canada's printed heritage and make the resulting collection accessible to research libraries in Canada and around the world. 

She has built strategic partnerships and collaborations with private sector organizations, academia, and government departments and agencies. Ms. Bjornson is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and has previously held similar board and committee roles with other national library-related organizations.

NRC-CISTI is the largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) library in North America, and the NRC Research Press is the foremost scientific and engineering publisher in Canada. With her solid management experience, her strong links to the library and scholarly communities and her existing in-depth knowledge of NRC-CISTI and its programs, Pam is well equipped to build on NRC-CISTI's strong foundation and lead it towards a future that will be both challenging and exciting.

About the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

As a key facility of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the NRC-Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) is one of the world's leading sources for information in all areas of science, technology, medicine and engineering. It is also Canada's foremost publisher of scientific journals and books, through the NRC Research Press, its publishing arm. With the ever-growing knowledge-based economy, NRC-CISTI is also increasingly considered a key strategic component of Canada's science and technology information infrastructure. 

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