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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:
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Library Services
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
• 1971, foundation of the Technical University of Barcelona
• 1983, name change: Technical University of Catalonia
UPC History
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
Sant Cugat del Vallès
ETSAV
Canet de Mar
EUETTPC
Mataró
EUPMT
Barcelona
ETSAB
ETSEIB
EUPB
FME
ETSETB
ETSCCPB
FIB
FNB
EUETIB
EUETAB
EAE-Winterthur
ESPRL
Vilanova i la Geltrú
EUPVG
IgualadaEUETII
Terrassa
ETSEIT
EUETIT
EUOT
EFFPC
EMFPC
EUNCET
Manresa
EUPM
SCHOOLS
ASSOCIATE SCHOOLS Castelldefels
EPSC
UPC campuses
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
Period of reference
University 196,275,016€ 2002-03
Library 1,753,992€ 2002-03
Budget
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
University Library (2002)
Libraries 13Visitors 2,805,354Loans 257,486Volumes 420,987Journals 8,867Databases 135Training of users 4,613Reading points 2,406Persons 165
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
Paideia 2000-2005
Paideia: A strategic programme of the UPC Libraries 2000-2005
Learning Research Network Humanism Organisation
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
A new model for the university library
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
e-learning
e-materials
hybrid
digitalvirtual
A new model for the university library
http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/circ/adsetts.html
http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/
http://www.iu-bremen.de/irc/
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
A new model for the university library
The Learning and Research Resource Centre
CRAICentre de Recursos per a l’Aprenentatge i la
Investigació
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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 Learning and Research Resource Centre
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
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
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.
UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre
Roser Gómez [email protected]
Marta López [email protected]
UPC Library Services http://bibliotecnica.upc.es
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