Copyright Clearance Center's Sue Kesner Elected President of The Society for Scholarly Publishing.DANVERS, Mass. -- The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP (1) (Service Switching Point) The local exchange node in an SS7 telephone network. The SSP can be part of the voice switch or in a separate computer connected to it. ) announced today that Sue Kesner, Director of Publisher Development at Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a not-for-profit U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials. (CCC CCC A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa. ), has been elected president of SSP for the 2007-08 term. Founded in 1978, SSP's mission is to advance scholarly publishing and communication and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration and networking. Long active in the information and content management industries, Kesner is a librarian by training. She earned her M.S.L.S. from Wayne State University Wayne State University, at Detroit, Mich.; state supported; coeducational; established 1956 as a successor to Wayne Univ. (formed 1934 by a merger of five city colleges). and worked in libraries at the University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies and Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . She also held senior management positions at SilverPlatter and at Infotrieve before joining CCC in 2004. Kesner currently serves as co-chair of SSP's Annual Meeting Committee and previously served as Chair of the Organizational Membership Committee. "I believe in the mission of SSP and I'm determined to help the organization continue to grow in all dimensions," said Kesner. "As strong as SSP is, I believe there are new and innovative programs and services it can provide our members. There are many opportunities before us, including content distribution, new search methodologies, innovative business models and rights management. SSP is critical to helping scholarly publishers address these challenges effectively." About Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center is the world's largest provider of text licensing services. These services, combined with CCC's web-based applications and tools, allow tens of millions of people in corporations, universities, law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
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