STAFF

Library Manager                                                       Technicians :                                                  

Esperanza Iglesias Fernández                                              Victoria Garrido Martínez

                                                                                  Mª Felipa Arroyo Villa (until/Nov/2018)

STRATEGIC GOALS

• New technologies
• Visibility and Dissemination: The Blog & Social Networks
• Access to knowledge
• Document Supply
• The Historic Documents Collection of the Institute of Physical Chemitry “Rocasolano” and the Julio Palacios Chair (CSIC)

New technologies

 In recent years, this conceptvalue has been the mainstay of technical work to ensure that the library is competitive, proactive and even co-creative. By knowing the researcher’s perception of the library in relation to the alternatives offered by its competitors (eg. Google), the has developed links with scientists, to help researchers achieve their goals. Because of this, the  has an edge on its competitors.

Visibility and Dissemination: The Blog & Social Networks

The Blog is the key tool for  dissemination and visibility. The Blog posts news from all areas of science and innovation. Always with the same purpose: trying to democratize "Science" and bring it to the public in a fun and an entertaining way. The interest of our blog's followers remains

In 2016-2017, on the blog  396 news items were posted. During this biennium, we achieved 172,883 visits to reach a total of 1,737,590 visits. The activity of our followers on the social networks Twitter and Facebook is constant and stable, as is the case with the Blog.

The  Blog is not only considered a scientific dissemination source in America (United States.Mexico, Colombia,  and Argentina, Peru, Chile) and Germany, but we have also detected that it begins to attract followers from other European countries (Russia, Ucrania) and Japon

Access to knowledge: iLumina

iLumina is a smart tool to accelerate the search for scientific information, providing a competitive advantage to  over Google, while saving the user time and mouse clicks. All specialized databases in the fields of Chemistry, Physics and Biomedicine, to which users of the  have access, are brought together. Through a single search box, with one-click access to PDF or HTML, the user can access full-text content directly through the detailed record or from the result list preview pane. The "A to Z" resource manager, can be utilized through the iLumina system, where it is now incorporated. So that “iLumina” was a single entry point to access to scientific information.

During 2017-2018,observing the results of the statistics, we find that many searches have been made with few queries, in addition, the returned results were analyzed carefully by consulting the abstracts and then the most relevant and applicable search results were downloaded.

In 2017, the online holds managed through iLumina were 73,853 journals & books, compared to 30,654 resources in 2016. The  current subscriptions are available online.iLumina is available from the CSIC's site to the whole Institution, and ubiquitously through the VPN to  users. Technology for mobile devices is offered.

Document supply: Interlibrarian loan (ILL)

The wealth of the  holdings satisfies the needs of its direct users, which is verified by the small number of documents requested to other centers and the significant number documents supplied to external centers such as universities, laboratories, and other CSIC centers. In 2017-2018, as expected from modern science, 97.5% of document transactions were journal articles and only 2.5% were book loans. Otherwise. Remarkably, the  supplied 7% of all the shared journal articles within the whole CSIC Library Network.

In the last 2 years, the average  ratio of the supplied documents to requested documents is eight. That is to say, the  supplied 8.16 times more documents than we requested from other centers. In contrast, on the whole, the CSIC Library Network is slightly beneficiary as it shares 1.2 documents for every document that it requests.

 Over the last years, the flow of internal transactions among CSIC libraries has dropped, due to the advance of new technologies and a putative decrease of the CSIC's scientific activity and the closing of libraries at some CSIC centers 

During 2017-2018, the total  number of  document transactions was 3.260 (both supplied and requested). Of these, 2,904 documents were delivered (-32.3% lower than 2015-2016). Regarding our request, 356 documents (-10,9% lower); 19,1 % documents requested from other libiraries were supplied by Subito. Of these 2,904 documents supplied, 2,826 came fron journals articles and 78 were book loans.

 The number of book loaned to users was 25 in 2017, and 20 in 2016.

The Historic Documents Collection:

• Historic Documentation of the Institute of Physical Chemistry “Rocasolano”

This Institute was created in 1946 and, at that time, the  took responsibility for preserving the unique scientific documental legacy that was formerly assembled and curated by the Instituto Nacional de Física y Química, a research facility implemented in 1932 by the Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios (JAE). Although this legacy mainly consisted in a collection of Physics and Chemistry books and journals, there was also a large number of written documents, memories, photographs and even films which are of great historical interest. To better preserve and popularize this part of the  funds the Library opened a new section at the web page of the Institute, named Colección de Documentación Histórica del IQFR, in which the digitized version of these written and graphic documents of historic interest would be made easily available to the interested reader.

• Historic Documentation of the Julio Palacios Chair (CSIC)

In 2015 the CSIC funded the Julio Palacios Chair, from an initiative of Dr. J.M. Oliva of this Institute, with the specific purpose of contributing to the general knowledge of the life and works of the Spanish scientist Prof. Julio Palacios Martínez (1891-1970). A large fraction of the research activity of Prof. Palacios on different fields of Physics and Mathematics was carried out at the Instituto Nacional de Física y Química (JAE). The  actively collaborated with this project in different ways from its inception. On one side the  carried out an extensive compilation of scientific and historic documents relevant to the aims of the Chair. This search was performed in close connection with Prof. Palacios family, which provided a large number of very interesting manuscripts, press articles, photographs, etc. In addition, the  designed a section on “Documentación” within the web page associated to Prof. Palacios Chair, www.jpalacios.iqfr.csic.es that contains the digitized results of the compilation mentioned above. Later on, the Library also included within that web page an additional section, named “Galeria”, specifically dedicated to graphic documents. More than 350 items were analyzed and digitized for both sections, that included journal papers, books, biographies, letters, press notes, etc.

Standard management

The  has continued the work of technical process, collections control, organization of the holding and signaling, maintaining the reading room service, etc.

  The Organization of Courses and Events

• Special Activity: The  have been involved in the exhibitions "El Cosmo" organized by La Biblioteca Nacional