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…