Belgian Association for Documentation

The Belgian Association for Documentation (abbreviated ABD-BVD. ) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in Belgium.

Created in 1947, the ABD-BVD's aims and activities converge to help those professionals in this permanent step towards the reinforcement of both their competence and the quality of their work.

It focuses its activities on:
 * promoting information science related professions
 * new techniques and methods in information management
 * creating competence networks and allowing experience exchange
 * training its members
 * defending its members' interests at a European level

The Belgian Association for Documentation organizes an annual conference, the so-called "Inforum", to present important and actual topics in the field of information and documentation. Since 1947, it also publishes the quarterly review Cahiers de la Documentation/Bladen voor Documentatie, with articles in French, Dutch and English. The association includes today more than 500 professionals from the private and public sectors