{"id":1728,"date":"2019-02-19T23:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2019-02-25T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:06:15","slug":"meet-the-candidates-sander-van-kempen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2019\/02\/19\/meet-the-candidates-sander-van-kempen\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates: Sander van Kempen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Sander.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1729\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Sander-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Sander-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Sander.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Sander van Kempen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Senior adviser<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Royal Dutch Library<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Netherlands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been active since 2011 within public libraries and since 2015 at the Royal Dutch Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). I have a background in ICT and digitization but more recently have broadened my expertise to include digital inclusion, digital innovation and supporting local libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Currently my main focus is the connection between the local library and our national digital library infrastructure, which includes a digital library catalogue, ID system,\u00a0Datawarehouse, etc. I love to work with all kinds of public libraries and feel that we all have something to contribute to achieve the mission set out in the Public Library Manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>A part of my drive to work in the public library domain is that I feel that reading is an essential part of the upbringing of my two small boys. I also strongly believe in the mission of the public library as\u00a0being central to freedom and equity of access to knowledge and information for all people. I would like to contribute to a stronger relationship between public and scientific libraries.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about voting for members of the Public Libraries Standing Committee take the time to read our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2019\/02\/19\/voting-is-now-open\/\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sander van Kempen Senior adviser Royal Dutch Library The Netherlands I have been active since 2011 within public libraries and since 2015 at the Royal Dutch Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). I have a background in ICT and digitization but more recently have broadened my expertise to include digital inclusion, digital innovation and supporting local libraries. Currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9765,22895],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-elections","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}