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Institution:
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
Library and information Services
Barcelona
Address:
UPC Library
and Information Services - Head Office
Jordi Girona 31
08034 Barcelona
Tel: +34 93 401 61 38
Fax: +34 93 401 56 65
Contact persons:
Antoni Giró Roca (UPC Rector)
Didac Martinez Trujillo (Head of the UPC Library and information Services)
Jordi Girona 31
08034 Barcelona
Tel.: +34 93 401 61 38
Fax: +34 93 401 56 65
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APRČN
2007-2010
4th UPC libraries strategic plan
"The libraries support the realization of the new European Knowledge Space"
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Library and information Services
Barcelona, January 2007
The 4th UPC libraries strategic plan mainly aims at accelerating and
encouraging their shift into active resource centres and high-quality services
in order to meet university needs for learning, lifelong learning and research.
The main APRČN 2010 mission is to integrate UPC libraries -
environments rich of information, technology and people - into university
teaching, learning and research activities in order to achieve UPC challenges
and goals within the European Knowledge Space: Education and Research.
"Aprčn
is the fundamental goal of the university's educational model, which is
student-centred: the student has to learn knowledge and skills necessary for his/her
professional and private life.
[...]
Aprčn is to search for data,
to manage information, to discover and generate knowledge in the new global
information environment." (p. 3)
Main
contents
1.
The UPC Library and Information Services and the strategic planning
2.
The challenges 2010: the new European Knowledge Space
Higher
education challenges
"In
the next years the universities have to meet the following changes:
· The
increase of demand for higher education
· The
internationalization of education and research
· The
multiplication of knowledge production spheres
· The
knowledge reorganization, which results in a greater diversification and
specialisation increase
· The
appearance of new expectations for universities, which will become reflection
centres on knowledge and a debate forum between scientists and citizens.
[...]
... two big milestones which the European Union planned for 2010...: the Higher
Education European Space (EEES) and the European Space for Research (EER)”. (p.
7)
The UPC toward its own library model
"The UPC defines its libraries as ' Centres of scientific, technical
and humanistic information, which support their users in learning, research and
educational processes...'. UPC Statute, Art. 37.
The Network of University Libraries (REBIUN), integrated with the Conference
of the Spanish University Rectors (CRUE), defines an university library in
the following way: ' A centre of resources for learning, teaching, research and
all the activities relating to university functioning and governance on the
whole. The Library's mission is to improve the access and the
dissemination of information resources and to collaborate in the processes of
knowledge creation, in order to contribute to achieving the university's
objectives.'"
[...]
In the Spanish arena," the concept is connected to the LRRC
- Learning & Research Resource Centre, CRAI in Spanish".
(p. 8-9)
The new professional roles of library staff
"The changes during the last years and the future challenges of
university libraries make essential training plans and programs for
professionals in order to tackle new tasks and projects.
It will be necessary to enhance the professional development of library and
information workers, by developing specific profiles to provide added
value to services. "
Among them, there is "User education on information skills and ICT
tools".
(p. 9)
3.
Methodology of the strategic plan
4.
Mission
Mission
"The
libraries, as environments rich of information, technology and people, must be
integrated into teaching, learning and research activities of the UPC in order
to contribute to meeting the new challenges of the European Knowledge
Space.
Vision
To become active centres of
resources and high-quality services, in order to satisfy the needs for learning,
lifelong learning and research of the university community.
[...]
Values
Quality - Accessibility - Sustainability - Cooperation - Loyalty - Technology
- Visibility - Multilinguism - Solidarity - Communication - Free access -
Multiculturality - Professionalism" (p. 11)
5.
Strategic
issues
- OF resources
1/ Facilities
2/ Technology
3/ Collections
4/ Bibliotecnica
- OF SERVICES
5/ Library services
6/Information skills
"We will promote the learning of transversal competencies of
students and teachers focussing on information skills"
Environment
"... The UPC
libraries participate and actively collaborate in the learning process of
our University community through specialised training on information skills
necessary for locating, retrieving, evaluating, using and communicating
scientific and technical information. In this way the decision-making,
critical and creative thinking capacities are improved and, above all,
an effective communication is favoured. These competencies are essential for
our graduates...
The UPC libraries prepare the educational program for information literacy
of their users offering different training sessions for all types of users
and academic levels. These training activities have to be progressively
integrated into the curricula of the different technical degrees and it will
be also necessary to enhance this training offer guaranting the academic
recognition of credits.
In order to accomplish this task, librarians have to set up a new
educational profile and prepare training programs tailored for each of nine
EEES UPC degrees.
Goal of the issue
To implement training activities to develop information skills
related to transversal competencies necessary for university students and
teachers to effectively manage scientific and technical information.
Action lines and specific objectives
1. Information skills for degree and post-degree students
To develop the IL training program with teachers' recognition and
within the degree and postdegree curriculum.
2. Information skills for academic staff: university teachers and
researchers (PDI) and administration and services staff (PAS)
To plan, organise and deliver IL training courses for PDI and PAS
in collaboration with the Institute of Education Science (ICE), the
Education and Welcome Centre (OFA -Oficina de Formació i Acollida) and
other UPC units.
3. Virtualisation, distance learning, learning programs and other
educational materials
To prepare, update and disseminate educational materials (learning
programs, guides to use, etc.) in order to develop and extend training
activities to all libraries and develop self-learning
of users.
4. Specialisation for trainer-librarians
To promote the recognition of the Trainer-Librarian as a professional at
the UPC and to develop his/her knowledge, competencies, skills
and aptitudes necessary to carry out training activities.
5. Cooperation and leadership
To promote, plan and coordinate actions and alliances together with
other university libraries, consortia and networks in order to obtain that
information literacy will be a key transversal competency within the
university's curricula and within the EEES framework.
Some indicators
- Number of users who
participated in training activities
- How does training contribute to good academic results
- Percentage of students who students successfully complete training courses
with credit recognition
- Level of technological and pedagogical innovation in training for
trainer-librarians
- Number of training hours (p. 18)
7/ UPC knowledge
8/ Access to culture
- OF PEOPLE
9/ Professionals
" We will develop the professional competencies necessary for
managing library resources and services in the best way possible"
Environment
"... This new flexible and open culture is the success key to
understand the transformations in the information and documentation sector,
in users' needs and in libraries and their services. Therefore it
is necessary to define and implement new emerging professional roles based
on new knowledge, expertise and competencies.
[...]
... new roles appear:
- Manager of collections and library services
- Manager of digital contents
- Manager of scientific and technical information
- Information skills manager and
trainer" (p. 21)
10/ Organisation and management
" We will continue to improve the organisation and management of
libraries, in order to adapt them according to users' needs and support the
university's changes and challenges"
Environment
[...]
The libraries have to prepare themselves for being present in the new pedagogical
models, in the training delivered through the web, in user education and in
the exploitation of university digital resources." (p. 22)
6.
Planning and execution
7.
Acknowledgements
8.
Preliminary works
9.
References
10.
A synopsis
Keywords: academic
library policy - university policy - academic library strategic plan - university library and
information services - information literacy - user
education - information needs - users' needs - information skills -
academic libraries'
educational role - librarians'
educational role
- trainer-librarians - IL integration into academic curricula - academic
libraries - learning and research resource centres - higher education - European higher education -
European Knowledge Space - information resources - digital information resources
- scientific and technical information -
training for university students - training for university staff - credit
earning IL courses for university students - information skills
of university students - information skills of university staff - transversal
competencies - learning environment - global information environment - learning process -
distance learning - lifelong learning - self
learning - independent learning - student-centred approach - library management
- information management - information skills management
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