BIBLIOTECAS BIBLIOTECAS UNIVERSITARIAS AL SERVICIO DE LOS USUARIOS: NUEVAS ESTRATEGIAS ORGANIZATIVAS

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HUMANE SEMINAR Comparative study on library
allocation funds the spanish case Margarita
Taladriz Mas Rafael Zorrilla Torras Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid Royal Veterinary
and Agricultural University. Copenhagen, 21st
22nd April, 2006
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AGENDA

• 1. Spanish universities libraries system
• 2. Some general data (December 2004)
• 3. Comparative data 2000-2004
• 4. Some indicators
• 5. UC3M budget
• 6. Financing
• 7. Conclusions

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SPANISH UNIVERSITIES LIBRARIES
SYSTEM

• MAIN MILESTONES
• 1983 LRU. University Legislation that gave tools
  to move forward Financing model, Departments
  organization, competencies, studies structure...
• 1999 Bolonia Declaration and European Higher
  Education Area Changes in studies structure,
  changes in the learning process, students
  mobility...

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SPANISH UNIVERSITIES LIBRARIES
SYSTEM

• REBIUN. Spanish University Libraries Network.
  Sectorial Committee from the Rectorss Board
• CONSORTIA
• Cataluña (CBUC) 10 UniversitiesCataluña
• Library
• Madrid (Madroño) 7 Universities
• Andalucía (CBUA) 10 Universities
• Galicia (BUGALICIA) 3 Universities
• Castilla y León (BUCLE) 4 Universities

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REBIUN Strategic Plan 2003-2006

• BECAUSE OF ...Libraries Consortia consolidation
  as a tool that allows continous improvement of
  quality of libraries services through cooperative
  acquisitions and shared services
• BECAUSE OF...the scientific information prices
  increase and the difficulty to cover information
  needs, mainly in some knowledge areas where all
  the bibliography is controlled by important
  editing companies, that behave in a monopolistic
  way.

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REBIUN Strategic Plan 2003-2006

• BECAUSE OF ...Competency among universities to
  get resources, users and prestige that push them
  to enhance quality services through innovation
  and change in teaching, learning and research
  systems
• BECAUSE OF...the new technologies impact in
  teaching, learning and research and accordingly
  in libraries
• BECAUSE OF ...changes in information world due to
  the enormous increase in volume and costs and
  also concentration of editing companies becoming
  more powerful in the market

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REBIUN Strategic Plan 2003-2006

• 5 DIRECTIVES
• DIRECTIVE 1 To develop a new university library
  model as an active learning and research
  resources centre
• DIRECTIVE 2 To promote the new technologies and
  communications developpement and support its
  implementation and maintenance
• DIRECTIVE 3 To offer a set of digital
  multidisciplinar information
• DIRECTIVE 4 To increase librarians
  proffessional level
• DIRECTIVE 5 To define a new REBIUN
  organizational model

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REBIUN. Some data ( December 2004)

• 72 Public and private universities
• 765 service points
• 1.815.608 users
• 5.706 people working
• 85.475.444 visits/year 2004
• 34.252.466 monographs
• 744.544 journal titles
• 476.871 titles in electronic format
• 104.788.531 M. Euros invested in bibliographic
  resources
• 136.683.994 M. Euros invested in personnel
  expenses...

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REBIUN. Some data
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REBIUN. SOME DATA
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REBIUN. SOME DATA
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REBIUN. SOME DATA
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SOME REBIUN INDICATORS

• CURRENT PRINTED JOURNALS/RESEARCHER
• REBIUN media. 1,5 TITLES
• 28 universities over ( 6,1 TITLES)
• 39 universities below (- 0.1 TITLES)
• UC3M 1,1 TITLES
• DB SEARCHES/RESEARCHER
• REBIUN media. 109 SEARCHES
• 15 universities over ( 1.575 SEARCHES)
• 39 universities below (- 2 SEARCHES)
• UC3M 94 SEARCHES
• FULL TEXT ARTICLES DOWNLOADED/RESEARCHER
• REBIUN media. 64 ARTICLES
• 10 universities over ( 848 ARTICLES)
• 39 universities below (- 4 ARTICLES)
• UC3M 89 ARTICLES

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SOME REBIUN INDICATORS

• GENERAL ACQUISITIONS EXPENSES/USER
• REBIUN media. 73
• 21 universities over ( 811 )
• 45 universities below (- 8 )
• UC3M 68
• JOURNAL ACQUISITIONS EXPENSES/ RESEARCHER
• REBIUN media. 330
• 30 universities over ( 1.075 )
• 35 universities below (- 7 )
• UC3M 276
• ELECTRONIC RESOURCES EXPENSES/ TOTAL RESOURCES
  EXPENSES
• REBIUN media. 25
• 30 universities over ( 100)
• 35 universities below (- 0)
• UC3M 22

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REBIUN. Libraries behaviour

• INCREASING
• Budget
• Human resources
• Distance services
• Digital collection
• Visits to the library
• New in-house services working groups, seminar
  rooms, language laboratories, computing rooms...

• DECREASING
• Potential users/year
• Traditional In-House services Lending, reading
  rooms use, physical stacks browsing...
• Interlibrary loan

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Universidad Carlos III BUDGET

• University statute stablishes 8 of current
  expenses allocated for bibliographic
  acquisitions
• Centralized initial allocation for
• General Journals (print and digital)
  DB
• Library board makes the distribution between
  library and Departments for monographs or
  specific resources accordingly to
• Departments
• General allocation index 50
• PHD Professors 25
• Dissertations defended 20
• Book average price 5
• Libraries
• students number 30
• loans/students 30
• Book average price 20
• Courses number 20

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UC3M BUDGET. University/Library
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UC3M BUDGET. Bibliographic Resources
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UC3M BUDGET. Library financing
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES FINANCING

• PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
• Central Administration. 3 universities
• Regional communities. 47 universities
• Special Aids
• Infrastructure Programs
• Quality Certification
• PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES. 22 universities
• Special Aids
• Infrastructure Programs
• Quality Certification

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Special finnancing

• QUALITY ACCREDITATION Ministry of Education and
  Science and ANECA (National Agency for Quality
  Evaluation)
• 2003 7 Universities 873.000,00
• 2004 6 Universities 877.695,00
• 2005 5 Universities 890.000,00
• INFRASTRUCTURES
• Special actions for buying retrospective
• bibliography

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Extra Financial Actions

• I. FECYT Program ( Spanish Foundation for
  Science and Tecnology)
• 6 M euros/year (2004-2006) to buy
• The WEB of KNOWLEDGE
• II. FECYT Program
• 80 M euros to cofinance acquisition of
  digital resources Regional Communities, Ministry
  of Education, Ministry of Health, Universities.

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Consortia Financing

• University CCAA
• 2002 86 14
• Cataluña 2003 92 8
• 2004 97
  3 ___________________________________
  
• 2002 17
  83
• Galicia 2003 52
  48
• 2004 20
  80
• _____________________________________
• 2002 66
  34
• Madrid 2003 75
  25
• 2004 75
  25
• _____________________________________
• Andalucia 2004 0
  100
• _____________________________________
• Castilla-León 2004 100 0

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CONCLUSSIONS

• Libraries are expensive. No studies about return
  on investment
• Libraries are beginning to be worried about costs
  and that will improve management
• FECYT, REBIUN and Consortia negotiate prices and
  services on its own, and that facilitates more
  equal access to resources
• OAIs and open access journals are spreading along
  institutions. Some libraries are helping in
  digital edition
• Consortia and REBIUN OAIs are starting to move
  forward, with financial aid from Institutions
• At this point, researchers publish in subject
  OAIs mainly REPEC, NEREUS...
• Spanish University libraries are moving to a new
  model CRAI
• In spanish libraries, budgets have gone up,
  users have gone down but they are using library
  services much more intensively, mainly visits and
  digital collection.
• Access to digital information is possible due to
  central and regional financing.