I met up with one of our own Insights Co-Editors, Lorraine Estelle, to find out about her new role as Director of COUNTER. ‘Being appointed to this role is a great honour but also a great responsibility’, she said. ‘COUNTER was one, if not the first, standards organization established for the modern information environment. It has succeeded in bringing together a collaboration of publishers and librarians to develop and maintain the standard for counting the use of electronic resources. It has also ensured that most major publishers and vendors are compliant by providing their library customers around the world with COUNTER usage statistics. I am taking over from Peter Shepherd, who led COUNTER since it started 13 years ago until he retired this summer. He is a hard act to follow and I have a lot to live up to but, fortunately, I don’t think I’ve broken anything yet.
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