Frank de Jong

Programme Manager Sustainable Access

  • E-mail: fdj@iisg.nl
  • Department: Collection Development

Born in 1964. Studied Library and Information Sciences at the Frederik Muller Akademie in Amsterdam and Economic Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Worked as personal librarian of Arnold Heertje, on a collection of antiquarian books in the field of economic sciences.

Joined the IISH in 1993 and worked until 2000 for the "Library Department". From 2000-2010 head of "Public Services and Preservation", and from 2004-2010 also head of the "Image and Sound" department. Since 2004 responsible for acquisitions for the Netherlands, and from 2011 till 2021 Western and Central Europe and North-America were added. 

From 2022 fulltime responsible for digital and analog acquisitions (archival materials, image and sound, books, periodicals and documentation) on social and economic history in the Netherlands.

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