Comunicació de Lluís Anglada, director de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC, presentada al Liber Executive Board, celebrat a Barcelona els dies 15 i 16 d'octubre de 2015.

1. Spanish and Catalan
University Libraries
some facts and trends
Liber Executive Board,
Barcelona 15-16.10.2015
L. Anglada
CSUC (CBUC)

2. Spanish and Catalan University Libraries
Universities
Buildings and new spaces
Collections
OA and research
Cooperation

3. Spanish Universities
• 80 universities in 236 campus
• Spanish public universities tend to be disperse. An average of 4-5 campus
per university is normal and big ones have more than 15.
• 25 are private (private universities are in expansion)
• Students
• (global) 1.500.000
• (average) 19.000 students / univ.
• Nearly 30% of people between 18-24 are attending universities.
 http://www.mecd.gob.es/prensa-mecd/actualidad/2014/02/20140213-
datos-univer.html
 Spanish universities have in common that all of them teach and do research.
 Professors are evaluated, but not universities.
 Research is basically developed in:
• University departments
• CSIC institutes and some Spanish big research centers
• Autonomous research institutes (more common in Catalonia)

4. Spanish Universities: positions in The Times HE ranking
 nº 146 Autonomous University of Barcelona
 nº 164 Pompeu Fabra University
 nº 174 University of Barcelona
 301-350 Autonomous University of Madrid
 301-350 University of Navarra
 401-500 Complutense University of Madrid
 401-500 Polytechnic University of Catalonia
 401-500 University of Rovira i Virgili
 401-500 University of Valencia
 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-
rankings/2016/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25

5. Our weaknesses
• English
• Vocational /
professional
studies

6. Catalonia, some data
• 7.5M inhabitants
• ~32.000 km2
• 12 universities (4 private)
• Students: 224.438
• Prof. & researchers: 15.375
• Research groups: 816
• 44 research centers

7. Spanish and Catalan University Libraries
Universities
Buildings and new spaces
• CRAI concept
• New buildings
Collections
OA and research
Cooperation

8. The Spanish university libraries
• 1974-82: from dictatorship to democracy
• 1983: new law for universities (LRU)
• 1985-95: university libraries reorganization
• All the university libraries = The Library of the University
• Technical services, organization chart
• Library automation & services modernization
• 1990-05:
• New universities
• New library buildings
• 2000-15:
• Rebiun (U. Library Association) new strategic plan (CRAI)
• Regional consortia
Pasado, presente
y futuro de las
bibliotecas
universitarias
españolas / Lluís
Anglada i de
Ferrer y
Maragarita
Taladriz
Mas(Arbor, 1997,
1997, núm. 617-
618)
http://arbor.revist
stas.csic.es/index.
x.php/arbor/articl

9. From libraries to CRAI
• CRAI = Resource centers for learning and research
• Influenced by the UK's movement (Follet report, and convergence of
services)
• IT and libraries did not converged
• New libraries are built under this conception
• Libraries centered on users
• Ana Reyes Pacios , (2015),"From the library to the
Information Commons", New Library World, Vol. 116
Iss 7/8 pp. 345 – 357.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/NLW-11-2014-0136
• Library buildings
• New (almost)
• Modern
• Big (6-8.000 m2)
• Campus libraries

11. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Rector G. Ferraté
Library

12. Pompeu Fabra University
- Ciutadella campus
- Poblenou campus
- Mar campus

13. University of Girona. Barri vell library

14. Girona University. Montilibi library

15. Lleida University, Biblioteca de Cappont

16. Spanish and Catalan University Libraries
Universities
Buildings and new spaces
Collections
• Some general characteristics
• Licensing
OA and research
Cooperation

17. Collections
Spanish libraries are rich in heritage collections
Traditionally, professors have done the selection of new
acquisitions.
• Libraries have a passive role building collections.
We don't have the figures of the reference or the subject
librarian.
• Recently, some libraries introduced the figure of the liaison librarian,
a link between university departments (research) and libraries.
• The students advisor function is not rooted in the library
 University teaching methods are mostly based on exams (and
not in essays).
• The ratio between borrowed documents and student is lower than in other
university systems.
Licensing has been done at regional level.
• In the last years, consortia act together to negotiate licenses with big publishers.

18. Negotiations for framework and national licenses
 When the economic downturn has been higher, we’ve reached two
important deals With Wiley and Springer
• national frameworks better than national licenses
• conditions are the same for all, but each regional consortia pays separately
• 2012 Wiley, price reduction
• 2013 Springer, they accepted some cancellations and we establish a cross
access at Spanish level
 Licensing for specialized publishers are done separately al consortium
level
 We participated in SCOAP3 (2014)
 Elsevier (2013-15)
• CRUE-Rebiun wanted to establish a national license and get additional money
from the Government
• First attempt in 2013 failed.
– The Government involvement was very low and they didn’t give additional money
• We are trying again this year
• Negotiations began last July

19. Spanish and Catalan University Libraries
Universities
Buildings and new spaces
Collections
OA and research
• OA and IR
• OA mandates
• Research portal
Cooperation

20.  Repositories
• Around 60
• Almost all universities have their own IR
– Recently the IR-CRIS relation has increased
• Dspace (61%) is clearly the predominant technology platform, far ahead of the
others.
 There are two main service providers (harvesters/aggregators).
• Hispana, Created by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2006.
– Not only academic information (press, archives, etc.).
– http://hispana.mcu.es/es/inicio/inicio.cmd
• Recolecta, created together by REBIUN and FECYT in 2008.
– Spanish scientific publications.
– http://www.recolecta.net
 Spanish Science and Technology law
• Art. 35. “Open-Access Publication”) mandate the creation and development of
repositories and open-access dissemination of publicly-funded research
outcomes.

21. Catalan research portal
Universitats
UB | UAB | UPC | UPF
UdG | UdL | URV | UOC
UVic-UCC | URL | UIC
Departaments i Instituts
Departaments vigents
Instituts universitaris de recerca propis i vigents
Grups de recerca
Grups de recerca SGR
Grups de recerca propis i vigents
Publicacions i tesis
Articles
Llibres
Tesis
Projectes de recerca
Competitius
PRC
Investigadors
PDI i PSR actius amb ORCID i
1 activitat

22. Research portal
Researchers included (based in ORCID id’s)

23. Spanish and Catalan University Libraries
Universities
Buildings and new spaces
Collections
OA and research
Cooperation
• Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas
(REBIUN), a CRUE section
• Regional consortia and buying clubs
• CSUC

24. Rebiun
• Strategic lines
• 1. Improve the organization, communication and leadership
• 2. Support teaching, learning and research and management.
• 3. Promote the development and use of the Digital Library 2.0, Internet
and social networks
• 4. Build and offer REBIUN products and services
• Services
• Collective catalog
• Bibliographic Heritage
• ILL
• Institutional repositories
• Organization
• General conference
• Executive board (Vice provost and library directors, fifty-fifty)
• Working groups

25. Regional consortia and buying clubs
Regional consortia
• BUGalicia, Galicia
• Bucle, Castilla – La Mancha
• Mdroño, Madrid
• CBUA, Andalucia
• CSUC (CBUC), Catalonia
Buying clubs
• G-9, small autonomous communities
• Canarias/Levante
CSIC
Activities
• Licensing (with different levels)
• Consortia use to have other cooperative programs
– Union catalogues, ILL programs ...

26. CBUC (CSUC)
• CBUC
• 1996-2013: Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia
• 2014-...: a division of Consortium of Academic Services of Catalonia
• Members: 10 Catalan universities + 7 associated members (including the
national library of Catalonia) + 60 collaborative institutions
• Consolidated programs
• Union catalogue, Consortial borrowing, Collaborative print repository
• Digital library (licensing): e- journals, DDBB and e- books
• Repositories: doctoral thesis (TDX), Image repository (MDC), Catalan journals
(RACO), articles & papers (Recercat), learning materials (MDX)
• Shared ILS (Millennium) and library software (SFX, MetaLib...)
• New projects
• Research Portal (research outputs of all the Catalan Universities)
• Tender for a shared system (radical cooperation)
• Research support: OA, Mendeley, ORCID, RDM

27. 27/21
Saving space
Using old infantry barracks
Gardeny, Lleida

28. Compact shelving: books by size in trays
Source: Caval CARM

29. 29/21

30. RACO, MDC, TDX
• MDC (Digital Memory of
Catalunya)
• http://mdc.cbuc.cat
• 30 institutions
• 3.054.286 documents
• 107 collections
Published images
• RACO (Catalan Journals in
Open Access)
• http://www.raco.cat
• 77 institutions
• 427 journals
• 167.266 articles
• 88% articles are full-text
• Nearly 8 milion queries
• TDX (doctoral Theses)
• http://www.tdx.cat/
• 20.963 doctoral theses
• 18 univdersities
• DART-Europe members

31. Radical cooperation
25 years working together around ILS
• Catalan university libraries unofficially decided to use the same ILS
(VTLS): 1990-94
• CCUC creation: 1991-95 and 1995-96
• The shared decision to change to a new generation ILS: 2002
• Shared tender (Millennium, SFX & MetaLib): 2005
• Centralized installation of different databases in the same computer,
managed centrally (2007)
We established a 3 years (2012-2014) objectives:
• A unique system, cataloguing once, able to search all the library
resources, flexible to grow, interoperable with other Systems and easy
to build new services upon.
• In order to have that system, we need:
– A unique DDBB
– A single search box for all the library resources
– A more flexible computer architecture

32. e- comercials
resources
1994
Repositoris 1999Catalogs 1980
CCUC (1996)
PUC (2011)
MetaLib (2006)
PUI (2011)
Recercat = Narcis (2012) ?
repositoris coop. (2007)
?