István Moldován

Between 1983 and 1986, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Industrial Economics, where he mainly dealt with fixed asset management.

Since 1986, he has been a staff member and specialist advisor at the Central Library of the Marx Károly University of Economics (MKKE). Initially, he dealt with subject monitoring, and then from 1989 he participated in the library's transition to computerization, mainly in the computerization of subject monitoring.

Between 1991 and 1993, he obtained a degree in information technology from the Faculty of Humanities at ELTE. In 1994, he participated in a study tour of Western Europe as part of a group of four; they studied the mechanization activities of foreign libraries. In 1994, he participated, among other things, in the development of the first website of the Central Library of the Budapest University of Economics (BKE).

In 1994, he and his colleague from Miskolc, László Drótos, created the first Hungarian electronic library called the Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK). In 1996, he participated with Károly Kokas in the Internet educational game called Netvadász, which was initiated by the National Information Infrastructure Development Program (NIIF). Since 1996, he has been teaching Internet knowledge and Internet usage at the Department of Library Science of the ELTE Teacher Training College. Later, he taught library and IT courses at the Budapest Media Department of the József Attila University (JATE), at the accredited courses of the Informatics in the National Public Service Foundation (INKA) on e-books and personal information management; occasionally at the Library Institute's cross-border courses, and since 2014 at the assistant librarian course of the BME-OMIKK library. He has been teaching at the Kodolányi János College.

Since 1999, he has been an employee of the National Széchényi Library (OSZK), where he is the head of the newly established Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK) – continuing the operation of the previously established MEK library. In 1999, he participated in the organization of a national, distributed library information service called MIT-HOL, which was later taken over by the Information Department of the OSZK and organized into a national library consortium called LibInfo. In 2003, he and his colleagues renewed the MEK service, with the support of the OSZK.

In 2004, he and his colleagues developed and launched the digital collection called the Electronic Periodical Database and Archive (EPA). From 2007, with the support of the MEK Association (to be mentioned later), they developed and launched the digital collection called the Digital Picture Archive (DKA). He participated in the launch of the OSZK project called the Hungarological Basic Library.

He has participated and is participating in numerous domestic and European Union projects, e.g. MinervaPlus, Linked Heritage, Civic Epistemologies. He has been a regular member of the organizing committee of the annual Networkshop IT conference for more than 25 years; he also regularly gives lectures at the conference. He regularly gives lectures in libraries and at library events.

He is a founding member and executive president of the MEK Association, established in 1999. He is an active member of the Public Collection and Public Culture Workers' Union (KKDSZ) operating in the Hungarian Cultural Center; since 2018 he has been its union secretary.

Awards: Kalmár Award (NJSZT, shared, 2000); Lifetime Achievement Award (Hungarian Content Industry Association, shared, 2008); Library Memorial Medal Award (Minister of Culture, 2008); Hungarnet Award (Hungarian Association, 2013).