rslib
Library
René
Steffensen
Director of Library and Campus Services
Room:
SOL/A2.04
Tel:
+4538153700
E-mail:
rs.lib@cbs.dk

Responsibilities
- 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
- Management Meeting, Chair (CBS Campus Services)
- Management Meeting, Chair (CBS Library)
- Joint Consultative Committee, Chair, (CBS Library)
- Joint Consultative Committee, Chair, (CBS Campus Services)
- General Joint Consultative Committee of the CBS, member (CBS)
- Safety Committee and Organisation, Chair (CBS)
- IT Portfolio Management, member (CBS)
- CS Portfolio Management, member (CBS)
- The Campus Committee, Chair (CBS)
- The Central Security Committee, member (CBS)
External:
- Member, Denmarks' Research Libraries, Directors' Board, 2005-
- Member, VL Group 108, 2014-
- Member, VL Group 108, Steering Commitee, 2017-
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
- Chief Editor, REVY, 2010-2013
- Denmarks' Research Libraries, Directors' Board
- Members Presidency 2011-2014 (President 2012-2013)
- Member, European Business Schools' Librarians Group, 2005-2018
- Member, VL Døgnet 2017 Steering Commitee, 2016-2017
- Officially appointed external examiner, The Danish School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002-2022
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. (1993)
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 1993
- Studies at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia July - November 1992