Sabina Aneva

Executive Director of NALIS Foundation


Sabina Aneva is a philologist and an expert in library science and database management. She graduated with a Master's degree in Bulgarian philology and history at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (1982). Specialized at St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library of the Republic of Bulgaria.(1984-1985) and in the International Center for Information Management Systems and Services (ICIMSS) in Torun, Poland (1999-2002). She works in the field of library and information technologies and digital libraries and prepares expert analyses of existing library systems worldwide. Mrs. Aneva was a deputy director of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences between 1995 and 2012 (then also a national contact point for the ATHENA Project) and a deputy executive director at the NALIS Foundation between 2009 and 2015. Since 2015 Mrs. Aneva is the Executive Director of the NALIS Foundation. She is a member of the Bulgarian Library and Information Association (BLIA) and ICIMSS. She managed the NALIS Foundation's participation in European projects EuropeanaPhotography, Art Nouveau, REvivEU and CitizenHeritage. Since February 2024 she is a member of the International Advisory Board of Central European Library and Information Science Review, and since November 2024 - a member of the Supervisory Board of Cluster Sofia Knowledge City.


Here follow some of her most recent papers:

  • Aneva, S. “Svoden katalog NABIS - sigurno sredstvo za bŭrzo namirane na nadezhna informatsia (po primera na namerenata informatsia za Ĭoakim Gruev). In Ĭoakim Gruev – prosvetiteliat I obshtestvenikŭt: Dokladi ot nauchna konferentsia “Koprivshtitsa I koprivshtentsi v novobŭlgarskoto prosvetno dvizhenie”, posvetena na 190 godini ot rozhdenieto na Ĭoakim Gruev, Koprivshtitsa, 12 – 13 septemvri 2018g. – Koprivshtitsa: Direktsia na muzeite – Koprivshtitsa, 2018, 164-170.
  • Aneva, S. "Softuerŭt s otvoren cod - edno reshenie na problemite v bŭlgarskite biblioteki (vŭz osnova na opita na Fondatsia NABIS)" [The Open Software as an Opportunity for the Bulgarian Libraries (Based on the NALIS Foundation’s Experience)]. In Bibliotekite - natsionalna identichnost i mnogoobrazie: Dokladi ot XXVII Natsionalna konferentsia na BBIA, Sofia, 8 - 9 iuni 2017g. - Sofia: Bŭlg. bibliotechno-inform. asots., 2017, 95-97.
  • Aneva, S., Lessenska, A. “Cataloguing the Slavonic Manuscript Collection of the Plovdiv Public Library – MARC21 Template”, Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, vol. 5, 349-356, 2015.
  • Aneva, S., Lessenska, A. “Cataloguing the Slavonic Manuscript Collection of the Plovdiv Public Library – Problems and MARC 21 Solutions”, Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, vol. 3, 198-204, 2013.
  • Aneva, S. (co-author with Ekaterina Pantcheva). “Biznes-model’ digital’noǐ biblioteki (na primere Tsentral’noǐ biblioteki Bolgarskoǐ akademii nauk)” [A Digital Library Business Model: on the Example of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences]. In Knizhnaia kul’tura: Opyt proshlogo i problem sovremennosti: K 280-letiiu akademicheskogo knigoizdatel’stva v Rossii. Materialy mezhdunar. nauch. konf. Moskva, 18–19 dekabria 2008 g. Moscow: Nauka, 2008, 269–273.
  • Aneva, S. “The Application of MARC21 at the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: A Tool for Accessibility and Preservation of the Medieval Cultural Heritage.” In Globalization, Digitalization, Access and Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Papers from the International Conference (Sofia, Bulgaria, 8–10 November 2006). Ed. by Herbert K. Achleitner and Alexander Dimchev. Sofia, Bulgaria : St. Kliment Ochridski, University of Sofia, 2007, 349–354.
  • Aneva, S. “Model’ bibliograficheskogo opisaniia staropechatnykh i redkikh knig v Central’noǐ biblioteke Bolgarskoi akademii nauk” [A Model for the Bibliographical Description of Old Printed and Rare Books Kept at the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences]. In Federovskie chteniia 2007. Compiled by A. Samarin, ed.-in-chief V.Vasiliev. Moscow: Nauka, 2007, 363–370.
  • Aneva, S. “Application of MARC21 – Concise Format for Bibliographical Data in the Bulgarian Libraries: The Case of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.” Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2007, Vol. 8, no. 2/3. New York : The Haworth Information Press, 2007, 137–150. doi: 10.1300/J167v08n02_12.