Adam Sofronijević

In 2020 he received the national Marija Ilić Agapova Award for the best Belgrade-based librarian and for noted contributions to the field. As of 2012 and a special acknowledgement from the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia for contributing to digitization through scientific papers in 2018.

In addition to his work in the field of digitization, Sofronijević published a number of scientific works and has organized a number of scientific and professional lectures and conferences, such as the one in Le Mans Université in France in 2015. He has been a guest lecturer in 10 countries around Europe.

As of 2013 Sofronijević has been a member of the Board of Directors of DART (Europe E-thesis Portal). He is one of the initiators of the Republic of Serbia joining the European digital infrastructure DARIAH and its permanent associate. As of 2020, he has been a member of the Executive Board of the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER, Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), the largest association of a kind in Europe.

As of 2008 Sofronijević has been the Head of Development and System Administration, Digitization and Cultural Activities Department at the University Library “Svetozar Marković”, the first of a kind in Serbia and the region. He has organized and participated in many developments and improvement projects of library and information activities, especially in the field of digitization and virtualization of library services.

He finished primary and secondary school in his hometown. After that, he enrolled in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies where he graduated in 2003. He studied at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences where he graduated, while he earned his MA and MSc degrees at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of Organizational Sciences of the University of Belgrade, respectively. He earned his doctoral degree in library and information science at the Faculty of Philology in July 2015 by defending a thesis entitled “A New Paradigm of Library Collaboration”.

Adam Sofronijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Адам Софронијевић; Belgrade, July 15, 1973) is a Serbian library information specialist and university professor. He received several national awards for his work, worked as an organizer of a number of scientific and professional lectures and projects of national importance in the field of digitization in culture.

Sofronijević was born in Belgrade on July 15th in 1973. He is maternally linked to Nikola Spasić, a noted Serbian businessman and patron.