National library gets new director

Better late than never, especially for the National Library the directorship of which had been left empty since 2005. Now, in light of its imminent relocation to the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Foundation, the post has been finally filled.

On Friday, through an announcement in the Government Gazette, the name of the new director of the National Library became known, and he is none other than Filippos Tsimboglou, director, since 1999, of the library of the University of Cyprus.

Filippos Tsimboglou, 57, is the man called upon to lead the National Library graduated from the School of Economics of the Athens Economics University (formerly ASOEE) and has a PhD in Library Science - IT of the Library Science and Archival Department of the Ionian University. His dissertation was entitled “Scientific library cooperation in a digital environment. A systemic approach to Greek reality.”

As head of three departments at the National Documentation Center (1983-1999) he was responsible for more than thirty developmental national and European projects, such as the design and oversight of the project to digitize the Dissertation Archive and the creation of a National Scientific and Technological Libraries Network, the only inter-borrowing network for scientific articles in Greece.