roser gómez marta lópez anna rovira

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre

Roser Gómez

Marta López

Anna Rovira

A New Type of Library for the New

European Space for Education:


Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Library Services


• 1971, foundation of the Technical University of Barcelona

• 1983, name change: Technical University of Catalonia

UPC History


Sant Cugat del VallèsETSAV

Canet de MarEUETTPC

MataróEUPMT

BarcelonaETSAB

ETSEIB

EUPB

FME

ETSETB

ETSCCPB

FIB

FNB

EUETIB

EUETAB

EAE-Winterthur

ESPRL

Vilanova i la GeltrúEUPVG

IgualadaEUETII

TerrassaETSEIT

EUETIT

EUOT

EFFPC

EMFPC

EUNCET

ManresaEUPM

SCHOOLS

ASSOCIATE SCHOOLS CastelldefelsEPSC

UPC campuses


School of Architecture of Barcelona

School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona

Technical College of Barcelona

Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics

Barcelona – Campuses

School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona

School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona

Barcelona School of Informatics


Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona

Technical School of Castelldefels

Technical College of Manresa

School of Architecture of the Vallès

Others campuses

School of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa

Technical College of Terrassa

College of Optics of Terrassa

Technical College of Vilanova i la Geltrú


Period of reference

Students 30.186 2002-03

Academic staff 2.422 2002-03

Administrative and service staff

1.210 2002-03

Departments 43 2002-03

Main indicators


Period of reference

University 196,275,016€ 2002-03

Library 1,753,992€ 2002-03

Budget


University Library (2002)

Libraries 13Visitors 2,805,354Loans 257,486Volumes 420,987Journals 8,867Databases 135Training of users 4,613Reading points 2,406Persons 165


Paideia 2000-2005

Paideia: A strategic programme of the UPC Libraries 2000-2005

Learning Research Network Humanism Organisation


Library and learning Current projects

Training of new users Improvement in the ICT areas of the libraries Users' charter and survey of satisfaction Increase in purchases of collections

Paideia 2000-2005


Library and research Current projects

Training of new users in specialized databases Improvement of services to departments Increase in e-collections (databases and e-journals) Thematic librarians Offer of services to companies Agreements with professional associations

Paideia 2000-2005


Library and networkCurrent projects

• Library technology: The Digital Library of UPC • Digitisation of local documents: e-books, PhD thesis, examinations, architectural plans, old collections, videos. .

• Renewal of hardware and migration of the catalogue to

Unix• Convergence with Computer Services (UPC-net)• The Digital Library of Catalonia (UPC). CBUC

Paideia 2000-2005


Paideia 2000-2005


Changes in the European university arena

Bologna Declaration 1999-2010 :

A turning point in the development of European higher education.

A common policy to increase international competitiveness of European Higher Education.

Homogenization of education systems. Changes in methodology

A search for a common European answer to common European problems


Spain situation


A new model for the university library, whether hybrid, virtual or digital, that will respond to present and future teaching and research requirements.

To incorporate library resources into a much broader service, expanded to include computer, educational, multimedia, publication and foreign language services.

Library services become a key strategic element in the access to and management of information.

A new model for the university library


A new type of university library, endowed with two main goals:

• The reinforcement of the role of on-site libraries as cultural centres and resource centres for learning and research, in which a great variety of collections, physical spaces for specific functions, and multimedia tools for consulting and editing teaching materials are available.

• The promotion of new technologies and digital libraries, which are fast becoming universities’ main source of information.



e-learning

e-materials

hybrid

digitalvirtual


http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/circ/adsetts.html

http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/

http://www.iu-bremen.de/irc/

http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/circ/adsetts.html

http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/

http://www.iu-bremen.de/irc/



The Learning and Research Resource Centre

CRAICentre de Recursos per a l’Aprenentatge i la

Investigació


Working together for a quality library service :• To adapt to new requirements and teaching methods

• To adapt to new scientific and technical information sphere

• Consolidation of library consortia

CRAI

Spanish Network of University Libraries


1rst. Strategic line for 2003-2006:

A new model for university libraries, which are conceived of as being an active and essential part of learning and research resource centres such as the CRAI.

CRAI


Rebiun’s strategic objectives are:

•To define a new model for libraries, in accordance with the new legal framework for university teaching.

•To develop new organisational models to allow traditional libraries to participate in centres such as the CRAI.

•To plan new areas and facilities for the CRAI.

CRAI


UPC’s CRAI


Examples that demonstrate how UPC’s University Library has begun to implement this new library model:

• Tailor-Made Bibliotècnica

• The lecturer’s mailbox: the digital library by subjects

• The Electronic Teaching Resources Areas

• The Self-Learning Areas and the Virtual Language Laboratory

UPC’s CRAI


Tailor-Made Bibliotècnica

It is a project that aims to tailor the content of Bibliotècnica to the particular interests of university members.

It is a UPC digital library platform that allows user groups and individual users to personalise its content.

It was designed to facilitate personalised access to services and to the information held in document collections.


Tailor-Made Bibliotècnica


The lecturer’s mailbox

To design an archive of teaching materials accessible by subjects.To classify the documents available at Bibliotècnica based on the subjects taught at the University. Restricted-access intranet to all the members of the University.


The lecturer’s mailbox


The Electronic Teaching Resources Areas

Part of a new project backed by: • Learning Resources Support Centre• the University Library • Intel Corporation

To facilitate access to tools used to improve processes of teaching innovation and the implementation of new teaching methodologies for semi-distance and distance teaching.


The Electronic Teaching Resources Areas

Users can create materials in HTML format, digitalise documents in different formats and publish them on the University’s intranets.

To promote and implement new guidelines for digital information management and to classify new materials in order to make them accessible from the Bibliotècnica web site.


The self-learning areas

The UPC Libraries’ strategic plan, Escher (1995-99), introduced what is one of the most current concepts in university planning onto the scene: the transformation of the teaching process into a process of self-learning.

It’s aim was to create self-learning areas where to “learn to learn”, and self-training areas offering multimedia materials.


The self-learning areas


The Virtual Language Laboratory

It’s designed to complement the currently offered self-learning language programmes: English in particular, but also Catalan, Spanish, French and German.


Conclusions

Libraries will be key tools in the development of new academic approaches in Europe.

CRAI: the resource centre for university research.

New library services and resources must be designed to improve the level of university research.


Roser Gómez [email protected] López [email protected]

UPC Library Services http://bibliotecnica.upc.es

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