Marjorie M. K. Hlava

Marjorie M.K. Hlava is an American information scientist and the founder, former president, and chair of Access Innovations, Inc. She has served as president of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

Career Hlava began her career working at NASA, where she stayed for 5 years, before going on to create her own company, Access Innovations, Inc.

A significant focus of Marjorie's career has been standards. She served on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) board for 7 years and was a contributor to CRediT, NISO's taxonomy of contributor roles. In 2024, she led the revision of ISO 25964, an international standard for thesauri and interoperability between vocabularies.

Awards Hlava has received numerous professional honors, including the Watson Davis Award from ASIS&T in 1996, the ASIS&T Award of Merit in 2014, and the John Cotton Dana Award from the Special Libraries Association in 2015.