Belgian Association for Documentation explained
| Belgian Association for Documentation |
| Abbreviation: | ABD-BVD |
| Formation: | 1947 |
| Type: | Professional body |
| Headquarters: | Royal Library of Belgium |
| Location: | Brussels |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Guy Delsaut |
| Leader Title2: | Secretary-General |
| Leader Name2: | Michèle Orban |
| Affiliations: | EBLIDA |
| Website: | https://www.abd-bvd.be |
The Belgian Association for Documentation (abbreviated ABD-BVD.[1]) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in Belgium.
Created in 1947, the ABD-BVD's aims and activities converge to help those professionals in this permanent step towards the reinforcement of both their competence and the quality of their work.
It focuses its activities on:[2]
- promoting information science related professions
- new techniques and methods in information management
- creating competence networks and allowing experience exchange
- training its members
- defending its members' interests at a European level[3]
The Belgian Association for Documentation organizes an annual conference, the so-called "Inforum", to present important and actual topics in the field of information and documentation.[4] Since 1947, it also publishes the quarterly review Cahiers de la Documentation/Bladen voor Documentatie,[5] with articles in French, Dutch and English.The association includes today more than 500 professionals from the private and public sectors[6]
Further reading
- Schweizer, Marko, World Guide to Library, Archive, and Information Science Associations: Second, completely revised and expanded Edition (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter ed., 2011), p. 101-102.
- Vanderpijpen, Willy, Belgium, in ALA World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. 2nd ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 1986), pp. 103–105.
Notes and References
- Sawoniak, Henryk; Witt, Maria New International Dictionary of Acronyms in Library and Information Science and Related Fields (English and Multilingual Edition), Berlin: K.G. Saur ed., 1994.
- Web site: Belgian Association for Documentation (ABD-BVD).. research.be - The Belgian portal for Research and Innovation. en. 2018-04-28. 2006-10-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20061009193735/http://www.research.be/ListURL/detail.asp?id=584&KeyID=530&up=518. dead.
- Brown, Ian; Implementing the European Union Copyright Directive - Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), 2003, p. 31.
- Web site: ABD-BVD - event "Inforum".. eurolibnet.eu - EUROLIB The European Community and Associated Institutions Library Co-operation Group. en. 2018-04-28.
- Book: Cahiers de la Documentation (ABD-BVD).. worldcat.org - WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center. 436529115. en. 2018-04-28.
- Schweizer, Marko; World Guide to Library, Archive, and Information Science Associations: Second, completely revised and expanded Edition (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter ed., 2011), p. 101.
