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Belgian Association for Documentation

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Belgian Association for Documentation
AbbreviationABD-BVD
Formation1947
TypeProfessional body
HeadquartersRoyal Library of Belgium
Location
  • Brussels
President
Guy Delsaut
Secretary-General
Michèle Orban
AffiliationsEBLIDA
Websitehttps://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

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Belgian Association for Documentation (ABD-BVD)". research.be - The Belgian portal for Research and Innovation. Archived from the original on 2006-10-09. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  3. ^ Brown, Ian; Implementing the European Union Copyright Directive - Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), 2003, p. 31.
  4. ^ "ABD-BVD - event "Inforum"". eurolibnet.eu - EUROLIB The European Community and Associated Institutions Library Co-operation Group. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  5. ^ Cahiers de la Documentation (ABD-BVD). OCLC 436529115. Retrieved 2018-04-28 – via worldcat.org - WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center. ISSN 0007-9804
  6. ^ 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.
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