Erland Kolding Nielsen
| Erland Kolding-Nielsen | |
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Eræand Kolding-Nielsen in April 2016
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| Chief Executive of the Royal Danish Library | |
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In office 1986–2017 |
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| Preceded by | ? |
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13 January 1947 Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 23 January 2017 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Spouse(s) | nger Sørensen |
| Children | Two |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
Erland Kolding Nielsen (13 January 1947 – 23 January 2017) was Director General and CEO of The Danish Royal Library (now part of the National Library of Denmark, the Copenhagen University Library, the National Museum for Books and Printing, the National Museum of Photography, the Danish Museum of Cartoons).
Erland Kolding-Nielsen was born in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen on 13 Januart 1947. He obtained a MA in history in 1973, writing a thesis for the Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen. He then served as lecturer in history and library science at the Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, 1971-1980, Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences 1980-1986, Head of the Education of Research Librarians and Documentalists 1984-1986; part-time Associate Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Copenhagen, 1973-1983. Professor Adjunct, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen 2013-2017.
Erland Kolding Nielsen was appointed Director General af The Royal Library in March 1986. He has been leading the national library's physical and digital development within administration, organisation and collection development, and by digitalisation of the library's collections. The first online catalogue REX was introduced in 1987 with electronic circulation from 1990. All aspects of internal and external library management and services were fully digitalised from 2007, constituting the full digital library. All physical catalogues, including numerous handwritten, were retro-converted by 2015, the catalogues of the five main collections by 2010, into REX, now comprising more than 9 million records. Together with the State and University Library of Aarhus Kolding Nielsen managed for the first time in 70 years to get a new Legal Deposit Law through the Ministry of Culture, which was passed by the Parliament in 1997, and fundamentally revised again in 2004, including all digital formats. Established in 2009 as a new part of the National Bibliography a full registration of retro-digitalised collections of all kinds in Denmark (2016, c. 330). The collections, now mounting to 35 million items (2015), were greatly enlarged in his time, the collections of photographs more than doubled to 20 million, big music and other private and institutional archives, the Netarchive.dk was established 2005, now comprising more than 25 billion documents and 2.4 million Danish websites.
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