(Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) East View Information Services, the world's leading provider of information products and services from Russia/NIS, Eurasia and China, has named Dena J. Schoen to its management team as Sales Director.

Ms. Schoen's strengths include a substantial career serving scholarly and academic libraries with print, subscription and electronic resources. She comes to East View from German bookseller and subscription agent OTTO HARRASSOWITZ GmbH & Co., where she led a sales team as Director of Sales for North America. She is well known and respected in the United States and in international library circles.

"Dena Schoen possesses the industry knowledge and insights to help us accelerate our company's growth," said Kent Lee, East View's President and CEO, "especially with our hosted database services from China and our proprietary UDB, Universal Database, information products from Russia, NIS and across Eurasia."

Dena earned a B.A. (Magnum Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature, plus an M.L.I.S., all from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught Russian, served as Slavic Catalog Librarian at the Hoover Institution, and managed the Russian samizdat collection as Curator of the Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary.

Dena Schoen has also served as head of Technical Services at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, Regional Manager for collection management and development for YBP Library Services and Account Manager for Endeavor Information Systems' integrated library management system software.

"East View offers high quality information products with extensive digital and print offerings, along with technical strengths and high service quality for serials and book customers," said Schoen. Based in Seattle, Washington, she added, "I am ideally situated to develop East View's business relations with western United States and Canadian libraries and research institutions. I will support customers worldwide."

About East View Information Services
East View Information Services began business in 1989 and has become the world's leader in providing high-quality information services from Russia and the Newly Independent States.

East View serves a wide range of organizations from individual researchers to academic libraries and intelligence agencies, private, military and administrative. Opening the door to information sources, providing up-to-the-minute news on current events, and the changing political winds around the world, continues to be East View's distinguishing service.

East View also offers a wide and deep collection of cultural background and historical information that was previously obscure in Western nations. Researchers rely on East View for information updates on new legislation and draft legislation, for elusive market data or financial figures, or for official standards, industry directories or advertising opportunities in foreign media.

Since 2002, East View added one of the world's largest digital libraries of Chinese information, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure produced at Beijing prestigious Tsinghua University to its offering.

East View is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with offices in Russia, Ukraine and The Netherlands. With over 120 employees East View has developed a reliable and extensive acquisition network capable of satisfying the most sophisticated (as well as simple) information needs.