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 Igualada EUETII 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 Academic staff Administrative and service staff Departments Main indicators

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre Period of reference University 196,275,016€ Library 1,753,992€ Budget

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre University Library (2002) Libraries 13 Visitors 2,805,354 Loans 257,486 Volumes 420,987 Journals 8,867 Databases 135 Training of users 4,613 Reading points 2,406 Persons 165

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre Paideia Paideia: A strategic programme of the UPC Libraries  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

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

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre Library and network Current 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

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre Paideia

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre Changes in the European university arena Bologna Declaration : 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

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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 digital virtual A new model for the university library

UPC’s Learning and Research Resource Centre A new model for the university library The Learning and Research Resource Centre CRAI Centre 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 : 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 UPC’s 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 Tailor-Made Bibliotècnica

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 lecturer’s mailbox

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 ( ), 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 self-learning areas

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.

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