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Library

Presentation

Internal Organization

  • 1st Floor - Directorate, Secretariat, Study room (49 seats) and bar.
  • 2nd Floor - Reading Room (200 seats).
  • 3rd Floor - Room Lecturers and Researchers (8 places), Gab. Cartography (16 seats), Gab. Audio-visual (10 seats) and Gab. Technician.


Collections

Monographs (general), reserved monographs, reports bachelor, masters dissertations, pedagogical aptitude, PhD theses, classes of aggregation, journals (print and electronic edition), audio-visual materials and maps.

Support reader

  • Local reading
  • home loan
  • Bibliographic via INTERNET
  • INTRANET access to journals in full text
  • Print the results of the consultations
  • Photocopies in place: self-service
  • Inter-library loan
  • Provision of documents, via email or mail
  • Acquisition of documents abroad on request
  • New acquisitions - suggestions
  • Service support and guidance literature
  • Personalized assistance in specialized research
  • User training (on request)
  • news

  • The BISA in numbers (2013)

    Useful space: 2,600 m2
    Staff: 8
    Readers - total: 4,808
    ISA teachers: 248
    ISA students: 2,983
    Masters and PhD students: 707
    External: 870
    CERES Base documents: 106,400
    Monographs: 64,428 titles
    Periodicals - Base REVISTAS
    total: 3,330 titles
    current: 112 titles
    Cartographic documents - Base MAPAS: 2,460
    Documents in digital form: 450
    Documents Repository UTL: 1,770

    Document system

    System AGRIS / FAO
    Format: BABINAT
    Documentary language: AGROVOC
    Rating categories AGRIS.

    » SOME HISTORY:

    Foundation year – 1853
    The main building, where the library occupied a large area in the first floor was inaugurated in 1917.By the year 2000, the library moved to a new building, specially designed to accommodate the large holdings gathered so far.

    » BUILDING _ FLOORS:

    The new building has three floors:

    0 – Ground floor - Coffee shop - Study room (40 places / 20 computers) - Head Librarian’s office - Secretary Office - Storehouses (ancient books and periodicals)
    1 – First floor - Information area - Research area - Reading room (200 places) - Rest area
    2 – Second floor – Technical staff office - Map room - Teacher’s research room - Reunion room - Panoramic terrace

    » COLLECTIONS:

    *Monographs (edited after 1970) – Free access consultation. Available for loan. Organized by subject, according to AGRIS Classification Scheme

    * Monographs (edited before 1970) – available on demand for consultation or loan

    * Restricted monographs – Books published before 1900. Available for consultation at the library

    * Dissertations and Thesis

    * Periodicals – available for consultation only at the library

    * Cartographic material

    * Reference works

    * Other materials (CD, DVD)