Miguel Benito

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Born 1943 in Tarancueña, Soria, Spain.
University studies at Barcelona, Stockholm and Uppsala. Fil.kand. 1970.
Has been living in Stockholm 1965-1974 and in Borås 1974-2011.
Worked at the Royal Library 1966-1974.
Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Studies 1974-2008.

Founder of the Immigrant institute 1973. Director 1981-2012. One of the founders of SVIFF, Sveriges Invandrarförfattares Förbund (Swedish association for immigrant authors). Board secretary 1974-1995 and 2003-2011. President 1996-2002.
President of Immigranternas Riksförbund (Federation of Immigrant Organisations) 1980-2011.
Chief editor of the magazines Invandrarrapport 1973-2001, and Invandraren 1978-1999.
Responsible for the Swedish translation of the Universal Decimal Classification, UDC.

Member of the UDC Advisory Board, UDC Consotium in the Hague.

Projects:

Bibliotekstermer på engelska och svenska, med vissa förklaringar på svenska, Library terms in Swedish and English
Has participated with 810 terms in Rikstermbanken, see sourcen
Responsible of the translation into Swedish of the UDC Summary, and contributor to the translation into Finnish.
Author of books on librarianship, as Kunskapsorganisation (Knowledge organisation, in Swedish) and Bibliotekstermer (library terms in six languages).
Has translated Selma Lagerlöf into Spanish.

Last updated Decembre 2021