From: Laura Mullen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:54:12 -0400

For Immediate Release
Contact: Laura Mullen, 860-347-6933 x124
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Mark Cummings Joins CHOICE as Editor and Publisher

Middletown, CT – July 11, 2013 -- Mark Cummings has assumed the
position of editor and publisher of CHOICE Magazine, the premier
source for reviews of academic books, electronic media and internet
resources in higher education. CHOICE is a publication of the
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Cummings
succeeds Irving E. Rockwood, who served CHOICE in this position for 17
years and recently retired.

“I am delighted to have Mark join the ACRL/CHOICE team,” said ACRL
Executive Director Mary Ellen K. Davis. “His distinguished career in
educational and library publishing will serve ACRL/CHOICE well as we
continue to meet the needs of the higher education community in a
rapidly changing environment.”

Cummings has worked in academic and educational publishing for almost
thirty years, beginning his career in the reference and professional
books division at Macmillan and continuing at Scribner’s and Oxford
University Press. In the early 1990s he joined Grolier Publishing
Company as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Americana and went on
to become vice president and publisher of Grolier’s reference
division. Over a ten year period Cummings built an online business
that reached millions of students in the United States and overseas.
Since 2000 he has concentrated on educational technology, first at
Scholastic and then at Weekly Reader, where, as vice president for
business development, he focused on creating new reference and
literacy products for the school and library market. Cummings holds a
B.A. from Michigan State University along with M.A. and M.Phil.
degrees from Yale University in East Asia–related fields.

The CHOICE editor and publisher provides ongoing strategic direction
for the editorial, marketing, advertising and production of a suite of
print and digital products. The position directs the development and
implementation of a long-term business strategy to maintain CHOICE’s
competitive position in the higher education marketplace and ensure
ongoing fiscal sustainability.

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About CHOICE

CHOICE (http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice) is a publishing unit of the
Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the
American Library Association. Founded in 1964, CHOICE has been the
premier review journal for scholarly publications for nearly 50 years
and is the leading North American source for reviews of new scholarly
books and electronic resources.