Raymond Bérard

Raymond Bérard is Director of ABES (Montpellier, France). ABES (the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) is responsible for the union catalogue for French academic libraries. ABES is also involved in e-theses and develops new services to meet the expectations and information research practices of its users.

Former positions

• Director of the French Academic Repository Library, Marne-La-Vallée (2004-2005)
• Dean of Studies at the French National Library School (ENSSIB) (2001-2004)
• Director of Clermont-Ferrand Public and University Library (1993-2001)
• Public libraries: Le Havre, Rouen, Amiens - Librarian of the French Institute, Teheran, Iran (1975-1977) and London, UK (1981-1986)
  

Professional Activities

• Member of CERL Board of directors (Consortium of European Research Libraries)
• Fulbright Scholar grantee (1980, 1998)
• Member of the SPARC Europe Board of Directors (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) (2000-2008)
• Chair of IFLA Management and Marketing Section (2009)
• President of Information Section of the French Standards Authority (AFNOR)

Fin du mandat: 30 June 2014

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