Gerald Grunberg

Gerald Grunberg is a librarian and French administrator, born in 1948.

Initially professor of philosophy, Gerald Grunberg becomes Conservateur libraries. It is interested initially in the problems concerning the public reading, that it is as director of Public library or within central administrations.

He directs initially the public library of Argenteuil: the experiments that it leads to it to the end of years 1970 will be largely included in the other libraries of France. Become director of the library of Montreuil, it takes part in the creation of the Salon of the book of youth before being named adviser technical for the book and the reading with the Regional management of the cultural Affairs of Île-de-France in 1982. It joined the ministry for the Culture in 1985 as chief of the office of the public libraries and the development of the reading within the Direction of the book and the reading. Extremely of these experiments, G. Grunberg directed a technical work on the public libraries.

It takes then a big part in the construction project of Très Grande Bibliothèque (become the François-Mitterrand site of the National library of France) like assistant of the scientific delegate and director of the department of biblio-economics: it is thus in 1994 the first director of the Department of audio-visual of the BnF. This experiment is made profitable during the construction of another large library, that of Alexandria: Gerald Grunberg is then detached like adviser technical on the project.

On its return in France, it is named director of BPI, station which it occupies of 2001 with 2006.

He is today regional director of the cultural affairs of Basse-Normandie.

Work

Gerald Grunberg (to dir.); collab. Direction of the book and the reading, Libraries in the city: guide technical and regulatory , Moniteur, Paris, 1996.

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