Appointments

• Mary Minow has been nominated to join the National Museum Library Services Board. Minow is an attorney, consultant and a former librarian and library trustee. She has made presentations and consulted for libraries and library associations in over 25 states on free speech, privacy and copyright issues. She manages the Stanford Copyright and Fair Use website and founded the LibraryLaw blog. Minow teaches digital copyright as an adjunct at the San Jose State School of Library Science and at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. 

• President Obama nominated Catherine E. Woteki for undersecretary for Agriculture for research, education and economics. Woteki is now the global director of scientific affairs for Mars Inc., where she manages the company’s scientific policy and research on matters of health, nutrition and food safety. 

{mosads}• Renée Mauborgne has been appointed to the Presidential Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Mauborgne is the co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and affiliate professor of strategy at INSEAD, the world’s second largest business school, located in Fontainebleau, France.