Ágnes Hajdu Barát received a prestigious assignment

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. In addition to supporting the interests and needs of associations, libraries and users, an outstanding area of its operation is the development of international library norms and guidelines, the formulation of principles, and the publication of statistics and other sources of information on the situation of libraries. The recently established Europe Regional Division Committee of IFLA elected Ágnes Hajdu Barát as the first member of the Committee from Hungary, for the period of 2021-2023.

Ágnes Hajdu Barát is a professor at the Institute of Library and Information Science of Eötvös Loránd University and the President of the Association of Hungarian Librarians. Her main areas of expertise are classification systems, languages of information retrieval, identity research, library databases, and information theory.

Source: ELTE BTK