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University of BarcelonaLearning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI)

April 15, 2008 Dutch Association of Librarians and Information Professionals

Welcome

Benvinguts Welcome to our University Verwelkom naar onze universiteit

UB in figures…

Students 106,918 Undergraduate students 50,563 Postgraduate students 5,534 Other students 50,821

Faculty Staff 4,586 (3.802 full-time) Administrative and Services Staff

2,125 Alumni (Antics UB) 3,505

UB in figures

Budget (in thousand €) 365,338 Study Programs (officially

accredited, and endorsed by the UB) 71

Centres (faculties and university schools) 20 on 6 campuses

Departments 105

CRAI in figures

Potential Users 117,134 Individuals entering the library

5,435,579 Loans 652,892 Staff 248

Librarians 145 Library Support Staff 103 Student Library assistants 110

Budget (in thousand €) 17,000

CRAI UB

Based on:

Our university structure A User-Centered Approach Integration of Teaching Support and

Assistance Coordination and convergence with

other services Assurance on quality service

CRAI UB

Structure:

Centralised management 19 Libraries 5 Centralised Technical units 1 library policy and procedures

CRAI Centralised Units

Technical processes (Cataloging) Administration Collection management Users services Projects

CRAI UB

Advantages for learning

Advantages for teaching

Advantages for research

What these changes have meant for users?


Improving facilities

Computers rooms Working rooms Special Opening hours Wi-fi internet access Self Learning Language Centres



Working rooms


Wi-fi internet access


Improving General Services

Loans Laptop Loans Interlibrary loans (Document Delivery) Ask a librarian Training courses etc



More information resources:

Reading Lists Electronic journals

Authenticated remote access for electronic resources

Access CBUC libraries agreement




Support Teaching Structure:

Support Teaching Unit Support Teaching Point

Support Teaching Services:

Teaching Information Resources Teaching Services


Teaching Information Resources:

RIDOC collection External Teaching Resources OMADO collection Teaching News


Teaching Services:

Educational platforms and tools; Elaborating educational material

(webpages, multimedia) Legal advice: open access, CC licenses Support to teaching and innovation





More research and teaching resources (UB i CBUC) Journals 21,017 Databases 252 Books 1,566,429

Better tools for searching and managing information Cross-searching (Metalib) Link resolver (SFX) Bibliographic citation management (Refworks)

Metalib


Institutional repository for academic and administrative documents

Others digital repositories in cooperation with CBUC: Electronic journals RACO Theses TDX Recercat: research documents, pre-prints, post-

prints, working papers Digital Memory of Catalonia: images (images,

maps, etc.)






More visibility of the scientific and academic output: institutional repositories

Support and assistance on: Publishing digital documents: open

access, copyright issues Communia project



Improved access to special collections and ancient and rare books

Digitalisation projects Biblioteca Virtual M. de Cervantes

for ancient and rare books Special collections : concerts

programmes; publicitary posters; drawings from life



Biblioteca Virtual M. de Cervantes“Crònica del rei en Jaume [Manuscrit]”

We are now working in …

VTLS to Millenium

GEPA: collaborative equipment to house low-use materials.

Near future

More integration with other UB information systems: E-learning platform (Campus Virtual UB) GRAD: educational task management GREC: research assessment and

management

We are now working on

First steps in web 2.0 Library blogs (4 libraries) Del.icio.us social tagging in subject

guides Our special and digital collections in

the Wikipedia

We are working now…







Thank you for your attention!

Any questions?

Business

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