Kurt De Belder
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.