René Steffensen

Director of Library and Campus Services
Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

Telephone: +45 3815 3700
Fax: +45 3815 3663
E-mail: rs.lib@cbs.dk

Primary work tasks

Director of CBS Library
Director of CBS Campus Services
Financial management
Responsible for strategy and development
Supervision of project and quality activities
External negotiations and representation

Honorary offices

CBS Campus Services Management Meeting, Chair
CBS Library Management Meeting, Chair
Joint Consultative Committee of the CBS Library, Chair
General Joint Consultative Committee of the CBS, member (CBS)
IT Portfolio Management, member
Safety Committee, Chair

External:

Officially appointed external examiner, The Danish School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, 2002-
Member, Denmarks' Research Libraries, Directors' Board, 2005-
Member, European Business Schools' Librarians Group, 2005-
Chief Editor, REVY, January 2010-
Member, Study Environment Network, 2011-
Member, Campus Frederiksberg, 2012-

Closed:

Member of steering committee, 'The Users' Library', 2006-2008
Member, Rotary Frederiksberg, 2006-2009
Member, Advisory Board, Royal School of Library of Information Science, 2007-2008
Member, Denmark's Electronic Research Libraries' programme 'Meet the users', 2008
Member, Conference of Managers of Danish Special Libraries, 2000-2003
Chair, Steering Committee, 'Denmark's Electronic Research Library' subject gateway for art, Arkade, 2001-2003
Executive member, treasurer, Danish Research Library Association, 2001-2007
Member, Academic Advisory Committee of the Danish Bibliographic Centre A/S, 2002-2003
Board member, Nordic Federation of Research Libraries Associations, 2004-2006
Chair, Steering Committee for the business economics subject gateway Bizigate, 2004-2010
Member, Library Network of Copenhagen, 2005-2006
Board member, Biblioteksvagten.dk (National Virtual Reference Forum), 2005-2007
Chair, working party, Danish Union of Librarians / Danish Research Library Association, 'Focus on Research Libraries', 2005-2007
IT Committee, member (CBS Committee)
Editor: Blog: 'Focus on Research Libraries', 2006-2009

Other activities

Strategic Project, Executive MBA, Copenhagen Business School:
Achieving a Dominant Position for QCX in Minerals. (2009)

Master of Arts Thesis (in history):
Terrorism and the media. (1998)

Thesis, Librarian:
Research methods in library science studies. (1997)

CV

Occupation:

Director of CBS Library and Campus Services, May 2011 -
Library Director, Copenhagen Business School, November 2005 -april 2011
Vice Library Director, Copenhagen Business School, January 2004 - October 2005
Head Librarian, The School of Architecture, January 2000 - December 2003
Librarian, Administrative Officer, Head of Department, Copenhagen Business School, October 1993 - December 1999

Education:

Executive MBA, Copenhagen Business School, October 2009
MA (History), University of Copenhagen, November 1998
BA (History), University of Copenhagen, June 1995
Trainee at The British Library of Political and Economic Science, London, April - June 1995
Librarian, Royal School of Library and Information Science, June 1995
Studies at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia July - November 1992