Benjamin Bober Email & Phone Number

Montpellier

• Worked closely with academic librarians to fully understand and satisfy their needs regarding e-resources management
• Initiated strong collaborations with partners (INIST-CNRS, Couperin, KB+, GoKB) to find the best ways to move forward together.
• Worked with ABES project managers, heads of departments (services, IT) and director to define the institution’s strategic plan (especially the evolution of the French union catalogue).
• Responsible for costing, estimating and planning the project.
• Manages a small team of developers and contributors
• Advocates best practices in metadata quality to French publishers (Onix, Dublin core, MARC, KBART,...).

• General management of the ISTEX project (December 2010 – Present):- Participated in the project planning, definition of scope and objectives- Assists ABES director during meetings with partners (CNRS, the French.
• Communication process (August 2011-Present):- Project manager for a website promoting the national licences project (http://licencesnationales.fr).- Defined with IT team and PR team functional and technical.