Kurt De Belder

Leiden University, NL

K.F.K.De.Belder@library.leidenuniv.nl


Kurt De Belder has been working at the University Librarian of Leiden University in the Netherlands since February 2005. Before that, he was a member of the management team of the University Library at the University of Amsterdam for almost eight years in charge of the digital library, digital information services, e-publishing, IT, innovation and projects. Among others, he set up the Digital Production Centre which supports e-publishing, supporting the creation and publication of journals, text corpora, image databases, dictionaries, critical editions, research environments, multi-media publications and repositories. Quite often, this was in collaboration with Amsterdam University Press. Prior to that, he worked for almost 12 years in the US in a variety of library positions at New York University, University of California Berkeley and Stanford University.

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