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Weekly News Digest
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May 22, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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People News From Access Innovations, Kudos, IFLA, and SSP
Access Innovations hired Veronica Showers as its VP of business development. Showers has more than 20 years of experience selling cloud-based and online software and content-hosting platforms to a variety of stakeholders, most recently as VP of sales for the Boclips educational video company. Kudos appointed Richard Baxter its new managing director. He succeeds Melinda Kenneway, Kudos’ co-founder and CEO of 12 years, who will continue to be active in the company. Baxter has had a career in the fields of medical communications, healthcare, biotech, and life sciences. IFLA published the results of its election for 2025–2027 governing board members, who will be led by incoming president Leslie Weir. President-elect is Te Paea Paringatai (New Zealand), and treasurer is Stuart Hamilton (Ireland). Governing Board Members at large are Anya Feltreuter (Sweden), Julia Konopka-Zolnierczuk (Poland), Jan Richards (Australia), Lisa Hinchliffe (U.S.), and Silvia Stasselová (Slovakia). The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) shared that Lettie Conrad is The Scholarly Kitchen’s new deputy editor. Conrad is product experience architect at LibLynx and a part-time instructor with the San José State University School of Information. SSP also introduced its newly elected board members for 2025–2026. Damita Snow, director of accessibility and diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy for publications and standards at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), is president-elect. The members at large are Beth Craanen, director of editorial operations at the American Physical Society; Tim Lloyd, CEO of LibLynx; Jennifer Regala, associate director of publishing at Wolters Kluwer Health; and Willa Liburd Tavernier, research impact and open scholarship librarian at Indiana University–Bloomington.
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Brandi Scardilli
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