The Belgian Association for Documentation (abbreviated ABD-BVD.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.) 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: 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 levelBrown, Ian; Implementing the European Union Copyright Directive - Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), 2003, p. 31.
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. Since 1947, it also publishes the quarterly review Cahiers de la Documentation/Bladen voor Documentatie, with articles in French, Dutch and English. The association includes today more than 500 professionals from the private and public sectorsSchweizer, Marko; World Guide to Library, Archive, and Information Science Associations: Second, completely revised and expanded Edition (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter ed., 2011), p. 101.
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.
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