Eleanor Frierson: A Tribute to the Grande Dame of Government Science Information Partnerships | OSTIBLOG

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-05-15

Summary:

"Eleanor Frierson, who passed away in April 2013, was the grande dame of partnerships to improve public access to federal and international science information.  For 10 years, she helped spearhead U.S. interagency efforts to make federal science information more accessible to Americans, playing an absolutely crucial leadership role on the Science.gov Alliance.  She took Science.gov all the way from a nascent concept through to its maturation.  Ms. Frierson also made similar contributions to the international science portal, WorldWideScience.org. She had extensive and diversified experience in information service development and management and had great business acumen and network-building skills.  But Ms. Frierson was much more than a consummate professional; she also was a caring colleague who took great personal interest in her associates.     Eleanor Frierson was that rare public servant who made a very special mark.  Her legacies continue on today as vital national and international resources.   Eleanor Frierson received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her Master’s in Library Science from Syracuse University.  She was a library staff member at Syracuse, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the International Monetary Fund and also served as Chief of the Bureau of Library and Information Services of the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland.  From 2000 until her retirement at the end of 2011, Ms. Frierson was Deputy Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), which holds one of the world’s largest collections devoted to agriculture and related sciences.  The NAL is part of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Ms. Frierson was honored as Federal Librarian of the Year for 2010 by the Federal Library and Information Center Committee of the Library of Congress for her leadership of NAL and her service as chair of the Science.gov Alliance.  Eleanor Frierson played a founding role in the development of Science.gov, now celebrating its tenth anniversary as the one-stop, real-time search engine for U.S. government science information, and of WorldWideScience.org, the global portal that offers easy access to science information from more than 70 countries ..."

Link:

http://www.osti.gov/ostiblog/eleanor-frierson-tribute-grande-dame-government-science-information-partnerships

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.psi oa.comment oa.government oa.usa oa.advocacy oa.libraries oa.open_science oa.librarians oa.worldwidescience oa.science.gov oa.data

Date tagged:

05/15/2013, 10:54

Date published:

05/15/2013, 06:54