Fabiola Vergara is the new institutional head of the National Library of Peru

The librarian Fabiola Vergara assumes this Friday, November 19, her new functions as institutional head of the National Library of Peru (BNP), after being appointed through Supreme Resolution No. 016-2021-MC, signed by the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo Terrones and the Minister of Culture, Gisela Ortiz Perea.

Vergara will succeed Luis Fernando Meza Farfán, secretary general of the Ministry of Culture, who, in addition to his duties, had been serving as institutional head of the BNP.

The new head of BNP had been serving as Director of Access and Promotion of Information at the same institution. As part of his duties, “he was in charge of directing, planning, managing and coordinating the library services at the different headquarters of the institution,” the Ministry of Culture details in a press release.

In addition, Vergara directed access to digital content on the library’s platforms, cultural management activities, academic programming, research, and the editions of monographic and periodical publications.

Professional experience

Fabiola Vergara has a degree in Library Science from the UNMSM, with a specialization in Information Sciences. He holds a master’s degree in Administration (MBA) from the Universidad del Pacífico and has more than 15 years of experience in libraries and documentation centers, both in public and private institutions.

As a student, she was a fellow of the Erasmus Mundos Action Program for a professional stay in the Doctorate in Training in Knowledge Society at the University of Salamanca, in Spain. Vergara is the third librarian and the fourth woman designated to assume the institutional leadership of BNP in its entire history.

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