Ph. D. in Higher Education, State University of New York at Buffalo. Master
in Library Science and Information Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Full Researcher at the Institute of Research on Library Science and Information(IIBI). His research areas are information organization. cataloging standards, bibliographic coding formats, open access and institutional repositories. Professor in the UNAM Graduate and Undergraduate programs in Library Science and Information Studies. He has been member of the IFLA Cataloging Section Committee. At the present time is representative for Latin America and the Caribbean at RDA Board. He has been Assistant Director for Technical Services at the UNAM General Direction for Libraries and Coordinator of the Scholarly Information System, Humanindex, at the UNAM Humanities Research Coordination. He developed the IIBI Institutional Repository and advised the creation of other UNAM repositories. He is member of the Technical Committee of the UNAM Institutional Repository. He has numerous publications in Mexican and international editorials and journals related to his research areas. He has been speaker in local and international conferences and academic events. At the present time is Deputy Director of the National Library of Mexico.