Title: Special Projects Director

Company: John Ericsson Society, New York

Location: Pearl River, N.Y.

Dr. Inez Brisfjord was designated Honorary Fellow by the National Federation of Advanced Information Services in 2010. She served on its Board of Directors from 1975-1981, during which period she was secretary from 1977-1981. She was part of the Presidential Succession in 1982-1985 and President 1983-1984. Dr. Brisfjord coauthored the history of National Federation of Advanced Information Services. She was a member of the Intellectual Properties Committee from the late 1980s until 2006.

Throughout her career, Dr. Brisfjord has been involved in many research-related activities and has served on the board of other organizations such as the American Theological Library Association-Indexes. She was active in the American Association for Information Science and Technology, where she served as a Special Interest Group chairman. She was also active in the International Federation for Documentation and Information, serving as chairman for the social sciences and directing a study of ‘The Information Needs of Decision Makers.’ Additionally, she was involved with the International Association for Social Science Information and Technology.

Dr. Brisfjord has participated in many international conferences, such as the ‘African Regional Seminar on the Role of Scientific and Engineering Societies in Development,’ Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast in 1984. She was the keynote speaker at the opening of the world’s first Telecottage in Vemdalen, Sweden in 1985, speaker at International Federation for Documentation in Helsinki in 1988, and speaker at conferences in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, U.K., and other countries. Dr. Brisfjord is also a charter member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and the National Women’s History Museum.

Dr. Brisfjord is a member of The International Society for Human Ethology. She is currently the historian of the Rockland American Association of University Women and Director of Special Projects of The John Ericsson Society, New York. While she was retired, she was Assistant Dean of the School of Information and Library Science of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.