universitat politècnica de catalunya libraries: an overview
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Libraries: an overview
http://bibliotecnica.upc.eduJuly 2010
UPC
Libraries locations
Main indicators
Strategic programs
Contents
Strategic programs
Staff organisation
Library services
Current projects:
Institutional repository
Information literacy
Questions / comments
UPC libraries
MANRESA
TERRASSA
MATARÓ
CANET DE MAR
SANT CUGAT
IGUALADA
VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ
CASTELLDEFELS
BARCELONA
MATARÓ
� Aeronautics� Agriculture� Architecture and Building Construction� Chemical Engineering� Civil Engineering
UPC areas
� Civil Engineering� Computer Science, Telecommunications� Industrial Engineering� Mathematics and Statistics� Multimedia � Nautical Studies
Period of reference
Graduate and undergraduates students 28,887 2009
Master’s degree students 1,858 2009
Doctoral students (60% from foreign institutions) 2,912 2009
UPC main indicators
Faculty and research staff 2,752 2009
Administrative and service staff 1,629 2009
345,126,192 € budget
- Catalan government funding : 55%
- UPC- generated income: 45%
2009
School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona ,
School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona,
Barcelona School of Computer Science Castelldefels School
of Technology
UPC campus libraries
School of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa,
College of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa,
College of Optics and Optometry of Terrassa
School of Engineering of Manresa
of Technology
School of Architecture of Barcelona
School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona
UPC libraries
College of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona
Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics
Barcelona
School of Architecture of the Vallès
School of Building Construction of Barcelona
Engineering of Barcelona
School of Engineering of Vilanova i la Geltrú
Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona
Libraries 12
Visitors 2.746.883
Loans 298,321
Books 331,718
Libraries main indicators - 2009
Books 331,718
E-journals 12,880
Databases 338
e-books 10,157
Users trained 4.321
Reading points 3.197
Staff 98 librarians, 55 other
Budget 6.104.612 €
� 12 libraries… but one single entity
� Long tradition of user orientation
� Service Quality: Intranet, library charter of services, performance indicators, surveys, annual reports, evaluation, etc.
Our Strengths
• Library evaluation/certification processes:
- 1998: I Plan Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad de las Universidades – Ministerio / Consejo de Universidades
- 2001: AQU (Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Universitario de Catalunya)
- 2003: ANECA (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación)
- 2006-2007: AQU (Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Universitario de Catalunya)
� CBUC (Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia):• The Collective Catalogue of the Universities of Catalonia (CCUC)• The Interlibrary Loan Program• Access to Collections• The Digital Library of Catalonia (BDC)• TDX: e-dissertations database
Cooperation
• TDX: e-dissertations database• Cooperative open repositories
� REBIUN (Spanish Academic Libraries Network)
� IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries)
� LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)
� EUROPEAN PROJECT-COMMUNIA 2007-2010 (The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain)
Organisational chart
Libraries staff:
� Librarian� Library Assistant� Students
Staff structure and organisation
� Students
Librarian profiles:
� Head of the Library� Basic services librarian� Research services librarian – Subject librarian� IT services librarian
Periodical meetings
Communication
Periodical meetings
Periodical meetings
Communication
Periodical meetings
� A new model for the University library focused on the collaboration with other University services: Learning
Current challenges
collaboration with other University services: Learning and Research Resource Centre
� Bologna Declaration: Adapting libraries to the New European Higher Education Area
� Leibniz 1991-1993
� Escher 1995 1999
� Paideia 2000-2005
Libraries strategic planning
� Paideia 2000-2005
� Aprèn 2007-2010
English version <http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/sites/bibliotecnica.upc.edu/files/arxius_site/file/qualitat/Apren2010_eng.pdf>
� Resources1. Buildings and facilities (a new model for the University library:
UPC Learning and Research Resource Centre)2. IT3. Collections4. Digital Library as a portal
Strategic Plan 2007 -2010
4. Digital Library as a portal
� Services5. Services6. Information literacy7. Scholarly communication and institutional repositories8. Access to culture
� People9. Staff development10. Management, quality and assessment
� Basic collection
� Information and reference service
� Library catalogues
Learning: services for students
� Library catalogues
� Loan service
� Information literacy
� Self-learning areas
� Other facilities (copying, work group rooms…)
� Information and reference service
� Document delivery service
� Research collection (e-collections)
Research: services for faculty and researchers
� Research collection (e-collections)
� Subject librarians
� Information literacy
� Services to companies and agreements with professional
associations
� Bibliotècnica: The UPC Digital Library
� IT support (self learning centres, Teaching resources
areas..)
IT services
areas..)
� Participation in University e-learning projects
� Institutional Repositories
� Digitisation of local documents: e-books, dissertations,
exams, architectural plans, old collections, videos...
Thanks for your attention
questions, comments…
Marina Casadevallmarina.casadevall@upc.edu
Marta Roca marta.roca@upc.edu
questions, comments…
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