Campus d'Excel·lència Internacional
Courses and research on Engineering and Architecture
- 23 Schools
- 42 Departments
- UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
- Common services in UPC libraries
- Architecture and Building Construction
- Mathematics and Statistics
Brno - April 2012
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UPC LIBRARIES
MAIN INDICATORS (2009)
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UPC LIBRARIES GENERAL SERVICES
STRATEGIC PLANS
- Leibniz 1991-1993
- Escher 1995-1999
- Paideia 2000-2005
- Aprèn 2007-2010
- Digital! 2012-2014
English versions:
pdf: [http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/sites/bibliotecnica.upc.edu/files/arxius_site/file/qualitat/digital_eng.pdf]
issuu: [http://issuu.com/bupc/docs/digital_eng?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage]
- To promote the digital publication of materials by the UPC’s teaching and research processes at the UPC
- To promote the digital publication of materials by the UPC’s teaching and research staff.
- To improve library services and increase the portfolio of digital content available via Bibliotècnica and UPCommons.
- To integrate digital services and contents to into the UPC’s information systems (in particular the ATENEA virtual campus and DRAC research and academic activity database).
- To increase the UPC’s presence en social networks (Library 2.0)
- To improve installations so that all users have access to comfortable and technologically ennanced learning spaces
- Direction
- General Services, Publications, Libraries and Archive
- Learning Resources Unit
- Research Resources Unit
- Digital Resources Unit
- Projects and Communication Unit
- UPC Archive
- Libraries
- Librarians
- Library assistants
- Students
- IT Technicians
STAFF STRUCTURE IN LIBRARIES
OUR STRENGTHS
- Head of the Library
- Heads of Digital, Research and Learning Resources Units
- Basic librarians
- Subject librarians
- 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.
http://hdl.handle.net/2099.2/2476
BRGF (Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library)
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DATA
The handheld library.
Developments at the Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library, UPC
(LIBER Annual Conference 2011)
Civil Engineering School (ETSECCPB)
- CBUC (Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia):
- 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)
- Inaugurated: December 1996
- Surface: 6,343 m2 distributed in 4 floors
+ basement-1 (study and meeting rooms)
+ basement-2 (warehouse)
- 70 public access workstations
- 14 reading rooms
- 24 laptops
- 24 computers
- 1 classroom (8 computers)
- 742,585 visitors (year 2011)
- Potential users: 9,375
- Students 7,146
- Teaching and research staff + Service and Administrative Staff 2,229
- Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9h – 21h (Nights and weekends during exams)
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona (ETSETB)
Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB)
LIBRARY STAFF
- 1 TI Technician
- 1 Administrative
- 12 Librarians
- 8 Library Assistants
- 5 Students
http://hdl.handle.net/2099.2/2483
COMMON SERVICES IN UPC LIBRARIES
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BCUM (Manresa University Campus Library)
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LEARNING SERVICES
DATA
DIGITAL SERVICES
- Basic collection
- Information and reference service
- Library catalogues
- Loan service
- Information literacy
- Self-learning areas
- Other facilities (copying, work group rooms…)
- Bibliotècnica: The UPC Digital Library
- Remot access
- La Factoria (multimedia learning resources services)
- IT support (self-learning areas…)
- Participation in University e-learning projects
- Institutional Repositories
- Digitisation of local documents: theses, e-books, dissertations, exams, videos...
- Internet 2.0
- Inaugurated: April 22th 2005
- Surface: 1,200 m2 distributed in 2 floors
- 293 public access workstations
- 3 reading rooms
- 14 laptops
- 26 computers
- 1 classroom (capacity 24 places; equipment: 24th computers and 1 digital board)
- 143,714 visitors (2011)
- Potential users:
- Students: 3,743
- Teaching and research staff+Service and Administrative Staff 444
- Opening hours: Monday on Friday 9h – 21h
RESEARCH SERVICES
- Information and specialized reference service
- Document delivery service
- Research collection (e-collections)
- Bibliometric studies
- Subject librarians
- Information literacy
- Research departments liasion librarian
- Services to companies and agreements with professional associations
LIBRARY STAFF
- 6 Librarians
- 2 Library Assistants
- 4 Students
COMMON SERVICES IN UPC LIBRARIES
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INFORMATION LITERACY
ON-LINE SERVICES
Thanks for your attention
questions, comments…
- Activities
- Graduate and under-graduate sessions
- Participation in 93% of courses
- It exists a coordinator for information literacy competence in 66% of Schools working togheter with librarians
- Masters
- 24% of participation
- Doctorate
- 68 information literacy specific activities
- Costum-designed sessions
- Resources
- Multimedia materials
- Virtual or semi-virtual sessions
- "InForma't“: on-line training materials for information literacy
- Staff
- Specific training for librarians dedicated to information literacy
- Mobile library catalog (also “My account” mobile)
- CanalBIB (LED screens with news, information and activities about libraries, UPC and others)
- YouTube, Twitter and Facebook accounts
- Podcast ; Blog ; Issuu ; Prezzi...
- UPCommons (repository to UPC's materials for educators, students and self-learners)
Marta García - BRGF
marta.garcia-sanchez@upc.edu
Montserrat Méndez - BCUM
montserrat.mendez@upc.edu