Belgian Association for Documentation

The Belgian Association for Documentation (abbreviated ABD-BVD.^[1]) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in Belgium.

Belgian Association for Documentation

Abbreviation	ABD-BVD
Formation	1947
Type	Professional body
Headquarters	Royal Library of Belgium
Location	Brussels
President	Guy Delsaut
Secretary-General	Michèle Orban
Affiliations	EBLIDA
Website	https://www.abd-bvd.be

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

• 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.