The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) has 12 campus libraries serving over 28,000 students across various technical fields. In 2009, the UPC libraries had over 2.7 million visitors, 298,000 loans, and 331,000 books in their collections. The libraries work cooperatively through consortiums to provide resources and services. Current strategic plans aim to develop the libraries into learning and research centers and adapt services to support the Bologna Declaration.

1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Libraries: an overview
http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu
July 2010

2. Contents
UPC
Libraries locations
Main indicators
Strategic programs
Staff organisation
Library services
Current projects:
Institutional repository
Information literacy
Questions / comments

3. UPC libraries
MANRESA SANT CUGAT
TERRASSA CANET DE MAR
MATARÓ
BARCELONA
IGUALADA
CASTELLDEFELS
VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ

4. UPC areas
Aeronautics
Agriculture
Architecture and Building Construction
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science, Telecommunications
Industrial Engineering
Mathematics and Statistics
Multimedia
Nautical Studies

5. UPC main indicators
Period of reference
Graduate and undergraduates students 28,887 2009
Master’s degree students 1,858 2009
Doctoral students (60% from foreign institutions) 2,912 2009
Faculty and research staff 2,752 2009
Administrative and service staff 1,629 2009
345,126,192 € budget 2009
- Catalan government funding : 55%
- UPC- generated income: 45%

6. UPC campus libraries
School of Telecommunications
Engineering of Barcelona ,
School of Civil Engineering of
Barcelona,
Barcelona School of Computer
Science Castelldefels School
of Technology
School of Industrial
Engineering of Terrassa,
College of Industrial
Engineering of Terrassa,
College of Optics and School of Engineering
Optometry of Terrassa of Manresa

7. UPC libraries
Faculty of Mathematics
School of Industrial Engineering of and Statistics
Barcelona
School of Architecture of College of Industrial
Barcelona Engineering of Barcelona
School of Architecture of the School of Engineering of
Vallès Vilanova i la Geltrú
School of Building Faculty of Nautical
Construction of Barcelona Studies of Barcelona

8. Libraries main indicators - 2009
Libraries 12
Visitors 2.746.883
Loans 298,321
Books 331,718
E-journals 12,880
Databases 338
e-books 10,157
Users trained 4.321
Reading points 3.197
Staff 98 librarians, 55 other
Budget 6.104.612 €

9. Our Strengths
12 libraries… but one 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)

10. 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)

11. Organisational chart

12. 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

13. Communication
Periodical meetings
Periodical meetings

14. Communication
Periodical meetings

15. Current challenges
A new model for the University library focused on the
collaboration with other University services: Learning
and Research Resource Centre
Bologna Declaration: Adapting libraries to the New
European Higher Education Area

16. Libraries strategic planning
Leibniz 1991-1993
Escher 1995 1999
Paideia 2000-2005
Aprèn 2007-2010
English version
<http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/sites/bibliotecnica.upc.edu/files/arxius_sit
e/file/qualitat/Apren2010_eng.pdf>

17. Strategic Plan 2007-2010
Resources
1. Buildings and facilities (a new model for the University library:
UPC Learning and Research Resource Centre)
2. IT
3. Collections
4. Digital Library as a portal
Services
5. Services
6. Information literacy
7. Scholarly communication and institutional repositories
8. Access to culture
People
9. Staff development
10. Management, quality and assessment

18. Learning: services for students
Basic collection
Information and reference service
Library catalogues
Loan service
Information literacy
Self-learning areas
Other facilities (copying, work group rooms…)

19. 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

20. 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...

21. Thanks for your attention
questions, comments…
Marina Casadevall
marina.casadevall@upc.edu
Marta Roca
marta.roca@upc.edu