Ms. Virginia Betancourt This is Me

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   Published on: 3/1/2006   Last Visited: 3/10/2007

   Virginia Betancourt is the National Librarian of Venezuela, a position she assumed in 1977. Born in Costa Rica, Ms. Betancourt was founder and president of Banco del Libro (1960), Fundalecture (1985), and UNUMA (1980)?all in Caracas. In 1989, she became Executive Secretary of ABINIA, the Association of Iberoamerican National Libraries. She has helped to make the National Paper Conservation Center, located in the National Library of Venezuela, the focal point of the IFLA/PAC Program for Latin America and the Caribbean and, through ABINIA, an important contributor to the well-being of other Ibero-American national libraries. Ms. Betancourt, who holds a master?s degree in sociology from the University of Chicago, has written on the significance of ABINIA for libraries in Latin America, on libraries as agents of change, and on the role of the national library in the development of a modern public library system in Venezuela, and she has been honored by UNESCO with its International Book Award.
   
   Robert Bovenschulte?s career spans scholarly, professional, trade, college, and school segments of the publishing industry. He is currently Director of the Publication Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), which publishes journals, magazines, books, and electronic products. Before he joined the ACS in 1997, he was Vice President for Publishing at the Massachusetts Medical Society, which owns The New England Journal of Medicine. He is chairman of the Board of Directors for the Copyright Clearance Center and serves on the Executive Council of the Association of American Publishers? Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division and the Executive Board of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers.