IIn the mid-1990’s, the Complutense Library applied the growing body of new technologies to launch, in partnership with the Foundation for the Health Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline Laboratories, a pioneering project: the digitization of a biomedicine valuable collection. The project resulted in the Dioscórides Digital Library. Nevertheless, by 2006, results were rather limited and the digitization rate was very slow. Currently, Dioscórides Digital Library offers free access to 3,000 books from the 14th to the 18th centuries and approximately 50,000 engravings.

In September 2006 the Complutense University of Madrid and Google signed a partnership agreement intended to large-scale digitization of our collections in the public domain.

In a Public Private Partnership with Google the Austrian National Library will be digitizing its entire historical book holdings from the early 16th to the late 19th century. Within the next 6 years 600.000 public domain books of the library’s world famous historical book collection will gradually be made available online free of charge and without restrictions.

The announcement of the project "Austrian Books Online" in June 2010 triggered a broad public discussion regarding private co-financing of large-scale digitisation. A report recently published by the EC’s "Comité des Sages" emphasises the importance of public private partnerships in reaching the aim of bringing a critical mass of Europe’s cultural heritage online and mentions the Austrian National Library’s project.

In this partnership, Google is financing digitisation, full-text creation and book transportation while the Austrian National Library is bearing the costs for metadata creation, internal logistics, storage of the library’s digital copies and online accessibility. The library will receive a copy of each digitised book. Users will be able to access the digitised books via Google Book Search and via the library’s Digital Library. They will also be able to find the books in a normal Google search as well as in Europe’s cultural heritage portal Europeana.

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the mobile services developed by the Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library (BRGF) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain.

For several years the BRGF has implemented a considerable amount of technological features that have distinguished the library because of its technological vocation, but only those regarding mobile services are listed here.

We consider that the paper could be useful for libraries investigating new technological innovations to communicate and deliver their services to users in a moment when mobile services are an emerging topic in librarianship and information science literature.

By detailing the successive steps that have defined the as yet unfinished process to construct our mobile services portfolio we intend to present a detailed picture of the mobile services and features offered by the library in the university from a case study perspective.

This paper examines the developing partnership between the University of Leicester Library and the Research Support Office (RSO). It discusses the drivers and barriers to partnership, and the outcomes including the creation of a new role of Bibliometrician. We have discovered that joint work on promotion of open access, integrated research management systems and bibliometrics enhances research support and strengthens the Library and its visibility to researchers.

Tutorial de suport a un exercici corresponent a la impartició de continguts sobre habilitats informacionals integrats en les assignatures de grau de l'EPSEVG. En aquest vídeo es planteja un exemple de cerca realitzada mitjançant el cercador especialitzat SCIRUS.

Píndola informativa que explica en què consisteix el procès d'avaluació de la informació.

El vídeo inclou l'explicació sobre: per què cal avaluar la informació, com fer una bona recerca, criteris a tenir en compte, l'aplicació de l'avaluació en un lloc web i un exercici per tal de practicar els conceptes explicats.

Vídeo-tutorial que explica la normativa i el funcionament del nou servei d'autoenregistrament de vídeos docents de la Biblioteca del Campus del Baix Llobregat.

Vídeo enregistrat en el marc de la Setmana de l'Accés obert del 18 al 24 d'octubre de 2010.

Vídeo enregistrat en el marc de la Setmana de l'Accés obert del 18 al 24 d'octubre de 2010