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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Libraries: an overview
http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu
17 April 2008
Contents
UPC Libraries locations Main indicators Strategic programs Staff organisation Library services Current projects:
• Institutional repository• Information literacy
Questions / comments
MANRESA
TERRASSA
IGUALADA
VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ CASTELLDEFELS
BARCELONA
MATARÓ
CANET DE MAR
SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS
UPC
UPC areas
Aeronautics Agriculture Architecture and Building Construction Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Science, Telecommunications Industrial Engineering Mathematics and Statistics Multimedia Nautical Studies
UPC main indicators
Period of reference
Graduate and undergraduates students 30.834 2006-07
Master’s degree students 2.923 2006-07
Doctoral students (60% from foreign institutions) 2.792 2006-07
Faculty and Research staff 2.565 2006-07
Administrative and service staff 1.294 2006-07
309.143.278 € budget
- Catalan government funding : 51’18%
- UPC- generated income: 48’82%
2007
UPC libraries
School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona ,
School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona,
Barcelona School of Computer Science
School of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa,
College of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa
College of Optics and Optometry of Terrassa
UPC campus libraries
School of Engineering of Manresa
Castelldefels School of Technology
School of Architecture of Barcelona
School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona
UPC libraries
School of Architecture of the VallèsSchool of Building Construction
of Barcelona
College of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona
School of Engineering of Vilanova i la Geltrú
UPC libraries
Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona
Libraries main indicators - 2007
Libraries 12
Visitors 2.887.237
Loans 276.201
Items 535.545
Books 283.385
E-journals 7.960
Databases 235
e-books 7.533
Users trained 4.501
Reading points 3.125
Staff 94 librarians, 53 other
Budget 2.104.612 € (2008)
12 libraries… but single entity
Long tradition of user orientation
Service Quality: Intranet, library charter of services, performance indicators, surveys, annual reports, evaluation, etc.
• 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)
Our Strengths
Cooperation
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• 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
Staff structure and organisation
Libraries staff: Librarian Library Assistant Students
Librarian profiles: Head of the Library Basic services librarian Research services librarian – Subject librarian IT services librarian
Communication
Periodical meetings:
• Heads of library + heads of General Services Units
• Services for students librarians + head of the unit (General Services)
• Services for faculty and researchers librarians + head of the unit (General Services)
• IT librarians + head of IT Unit (General Services)
Current challenges
A new model for the University library: Learning and Research Resource Centre
Bologna Declaration: Adapting libraries to the New European Higher
Education Area
Libraries strategic planning
• Leibniz 1991-1993
• Escher 1995 1999
• Paideia 2000-2005
• Aprèn 2007-2010
Strategic Plan 2007-2010
Resources1. Buildings and facilities (a new model for the University library:
UPC Learning and Research Resource Centre)2. IT3. Collections4. Digital Library
Services5. Services6. Information literacy7. Scholarly communication and institutional repositories8. Access to culture
People9. Staff development10. Management, quality and assessment
Learning: services for the students
Basic collection Information and reference service Library catalogues Loan service Users training Self-learning areas Other facilities (copying, work group rooms…)
Research: services for faculty and researchers
Information and reference service Document delivery service Research collection (e-collections) Subject librarians Information literacy Services to companies and agreements with professional
associations
IT services
Bibliotècnica: The UPC Digital Library IT support (self learning centres, Teaching resources areas..) Participation in University e-learning projects Institutional Repositories Digitisation of local documents: e-books, dissertations, exams,
architectural plans, old collections, videos...
To offer a tool for publishing academic works in electronic format
To organize and preserve UPC’s intellectual heritage
To greatly increase UPC’s visibility in the world
UPCommons: objectives
Strategy: repositories
Separate repositories: E-prints: https://upcommons.upc.edu/e-prints/ University journals and congresses: https://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/ Students’ work: https://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/ Learning materials: http://e-md.upc.edu/home/ Videos: http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/video/ Theses: http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/
Why did we decide to create different repositories?• To facilitate organization (one librarian is responsible for each repository) • To be able to fit different document data into metadata • To fully integrate with other university platforms (such as Virtual Campus, based
on Moodle and the Electronic Information Services for Academic Activity)
However• The cost of supporting repositories is higher• Content is dispersed
https://upcommons.upc.edu/
Global access to UPC knowledge Metasearch in all UPC repositories Electronic documents and information about support services (how to
digitize a thesis, how to submit documents, etc.)
Strategy: access to all repositories
Strategy: human resources
One computer technician for designing repositories and improving software.
One librarian responsible for content control and management of each repository.
In every UPC campus, there are librarians who: control and extend metadata feed-back between users and general services
Strategy: repository support services
SEPI: Intellectual Property Service • Author rights • Copyright policies (including e-journals and Creative Commons)
Factories: teaching resource facilities • Convert traditional formats into digital formats (print journals, theses,
etc.)• Video digitization
Subject librarian:• Liaison with university departments for diffusion of the project and
training
UPCOpenCourseWare (5.852 documents)http://e-md.upc.edu/home/
Inspired by MIT’s Open Course Ware Provides access to UPC’s course materials for educators and
students Not all its content is open access Not (yet) with a DSpace repository
Learning repositories: course materials
Students’ work (2.051 documents)https://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/
Students’ work (final degree projects, minor theses, recognition of foreign diplomas/theses, etc.) presented by university students at UPC.
Learning repositories: students’ work
UPC Digital Library (226 videos)http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/video/
Institutional activities or learning activities Migration to a DSpace application
Learning repositories: videos
E-prints UPC (1199 pre-prints or post-prints)https://upcommons.upc.edu/e-prints/
The E-prints repository collects documents generated by academics in their research activities. Communities: schools, departments, laboratories or research groups. Workflow: Selfarchive (authors) Peer review (optional) Protect and extend metadatas (subject librarians)
Research repositories: E-prints
UPC Journals and Congresses (3.419 articles)https://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/
This repository compiles the full texts of e-journal articles and proceedings published by any scholar or research department of the university.
Workflow: Archive (journal support personnel or auxilliar librarians) Control and extend metadatas (subject librarians) Electronic submission using DSpace
Research repositories: Journals and Congresses
OAI-MHP
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PCommons
Course materials
Students’ work
....
E-prints
Journals and congresses
OAI-MHP
Campus digital
SO
AP
Scientific Output
Information System
OA
I-M
HP
RECERCAT
RACO
TDX
OAISter
...OAI-MHP
Conclusions
Good acceptance, Good strategy, Collections are growing but… there’s still a lot of work to do
Conclusions
Information Literacy program: Informa’t
The new European space of university education introduces the possibility of reframing the information skills that university students will have to acquire to become good professionals.
This new educative frame appears like an excellent opportunity to librarians to improve the collaboration with the educational staff.
Information literacy aims: to acquire (all students) the abilities to manage and to communicate the necessary information for the academic and professional success.
2 ways: • collaboration with some subjects • specific subject in IL
Marta López
Anna Rovira
Thanks for your attention
questions, comments…