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People News for Summer 2025

Emma O’Brian, previously chief of staff and SVP of strategy for Dow Jones, becomes GM for Factiva, where she will work on “embracing AI-driven search, spawning new specialized data businesses, and forging an AI marketplace for publishers.”

IMLS’s chief of staff, Katherine Maas, is now its deputy director of museum services. Maas, who has been at IMLS since 2010, will be “guiding [IMLS] museum programs, overseeing key grantmaking activities, and ensuring [IMLS will] deliver on [its] mission to support and strengthen museums nationwide.”

Project ReShare elected two new members and two new officers to its steering committee. The new members are Claire DeMarco, associate vice provost for operations at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ian Bogus, executive director of ReCAP. The new officers are co-chairperson Clara Fehrenbach, document delivery services librarian at the University of Chicago, and treasurer Isaac Gilman, executive director of Orbis Cascade Alliance.

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) appointed Jamie Fowler as managing director of government publishing and print procurement (GPPP), overseeing GPO’s Customer Services business unit. Fowler joined GPO as a printing specialist in 2008 and was most recently its chief of DC procurement. 

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) named a new treasurer for 2025–2027: Rhonda Ross, chief of staff at CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. Ross has been a NISO board member since 2019.