Gloria Pérez-Salmerón

Glòria Pérez-Salmerón (5 April 1958, Barcelona) was Director of the National Library of Spain (BNE). She is President of the Spanish Federation of Societies of Archivist, Librarians, Documentalists and Museology (FESABID) and 2017-2019 President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Born in Barcelona in 1958, she graduated in Documentation at Escola Universitaria Jordi Rubió i Balaguer in Barcelona and has a postgraduate diploma in Librarianship from the Barcelona University Faculty of Librarianship and Information Sciences. As well as a postgraduate degree in “Library Management” at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and “Government and Public Management in the Information Society: Electronic Government”, at the Pompeu Fabra University and the Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya.

Glòria Pérez-Salmerón was the first director, between 1992 and 2001, of the Casacuberta Central Urban Library of Badalona, coordinator of the libraries in the north of the Barcelonés municipality and delegate at the UNET (UNESCO Model Library Network).

Between 2001 and 2005 she was appointed Technical Director of the Network of Municipal Libraries of the Diputació de Barcelona. In 2005 she became Head of Library Cooperation Service of the Department of Culture and Media at the Generalitat de Catalunya, from which she coordinated the Library System of Catalonia.

In 2008, she was elected President of the Spanish Federation of Societies of Archivist, Librarians, Documentalists and Museology (FESABID), a position she held until September 2010, whilst she was Head of the Office of Assistance in Electronic Administration at the Diputació de Barcelona in which she managed, amongst other duties, the municipal register of 268 municipalities of the province of Barcelona, “the adaptation to the LOPD (Data Protection Act), the technological development of the OACs (Citizen’s Attention Offices) and the design and maintenance of the municipal websites if the province of Barcelona.

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