BEC

Biblioteca di area EConomica

Sara Franzoso and Linda Spinazzè

with the kind collaboration of
Ines Andreetta and Giovanna Bergamini

STW 2018
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Inside BEC

  • History 
  • Numbers
  • Services
  • Collections
  • Collection Management
  • Moves & discard
  • Projects

Campus location: San Giobbe

New bridge (may 2017)
between railway station and Campus,
is entitled to Valeria Solesin

Industrial architecture conversion

Molino Stucky

 

 

1898-1955: wheat farm (mill)

 

2007: Hilton luxury hotel

16th century industrial hangar

 

today: reception Biennale exhibition

Industrial architecture conversion

San Basilio area and the redevelopment of the venetian waterfront

Industrial architecture conversion

Picture by: https://www.port.venice.it/en/the-redevelopment-of-the-venetian-waterfront.html

Industrial architecture conversion

San Giobbe is the conversion of an industrial site

 San Giobbe

 Proofs of its recent past

 From slaughterhouse...

into university Campus

 From ruins and mill ...

...into library

XIV century: first urban development

San Giobbe in a Jacopo De Barbari view, 1500

« Un paesaggio
di lavoro,

di popolo

e assistenza »

E. Concina, 1989

extension work (eng. Forcellini )

    1832-1843

construction of the first  city slaughterhouse

    1866-1880

 Le Corbusier scale-model for transforming San Giobbe in hospital area

An hollow plan by Le Corbusier

  • slaughterhouse structures came out to be obsolete

  • urban planning regulations: use San Giobbe area for hospital
  • Le Corbusier was committed to the plan
  • Le Corbusier project remained on the paper  
    (but a cornerstore for the architecture culture)

     

Abandonment and Decay

The "Remiere"

1977: simbolically occupation

2002: definitive move on Sant'Alvise

A new Faculty of Economics: the project

A long long story...


Phase A (1995-2005)

Phase C (2001-2004)

 

CAMPUS

A new Faculty of Economics: the project

 


 

Phase B (2001-2004)

 

LIBRARY

Numbers

Ground floor

BEC total surface: 3500 mq

Numbers

First floor

BEC total surface: 3500 mq

Numbers

BEC total surface: 3500 mq

Second floor

Numbers

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

Numbers

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

250.000 books

Books collection

current collection:  CDD

old collections: various old codes

 

Numbers

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

250.000 books

3300 periodicals

Periodicals collection:

300 current journals
arranged on ground floor in CDD

 

 

3000 old journals
in ground floor most used, others in Mestre
 

Numbers

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

250.000 books

3300 periodicals

11 employees ...

 

Services

Reference

Interlibrary Loan

Document Delivery

Learning support

Collection management

Collection development 

Cataloguing

 

National Civil Voluntary Service

Student collaborators

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

250.000 books

3300 periodicals

11 employees

3500 ca. hours opening

Numbers

Monday to Friday

8.30 - 22.00

Saturday

9.00 - 18.00

Numbers

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

250.000 books

3300 periodicals

11 employees

3500 ca. hours opening

240 seats

 

12 carrels

Multifunctional room

Free seat

Numbers

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

250.000 books

3300 periodicals

11 employees

3500 ca. hours opening

240 seats

18 Pc (5 OPAC) + 

 

4 multifunctional printers

Numbers

surface: 3500 mq

8 Km of open shelves

250.000 books

3300 periodicals

11 employees

3500 ca. hours opening

240 seats - 18 Pc (5 OPAC)

18 Pc (5 OPAC) +multifunctional printers

12400 loans

Services

Reference

information research support service
individual or classes

Bloomberg

Numeric database

Track and analyze: price data, financials, trade data, news

Real-time

Certification >>>

Bloomberg

reservation required
​one hour daily per user

Services

Reference

ILL

 

Active 265

Passive 27

Services

Special ILL agreement with Treviso

Active 33

Reference

ILL

 

Services

Reference

ILL

DD

Passive 390

Active 532

Current collection

 

Ground floor:

reference books (green tag)

text books (yellow tag)

current periodicals

 

Current collection

First floor:

 

Law reference books: codes, primary and secondary materials

 

DDC books on:
Economics, Finance, Law, Mathematics and Statistics

Second floor:

DDC books on:
Management and Economic History

 

Old Law books with original shelfmark

 

 

Current collection

Books subjects

Journals subjects

Old collections

Ground floor: atlases

 

First floor in closet: ancient books

 

Second floor: old law books collection, still often used by our scholars

 

Stores: economics, management and mathematics old books and old periodicals collections

Old collections

donations

G. Luzzatto
A. De Pietri Tonelli

Old collections

atlases

ancient maps

Old collections

Access

on request 5 times per day

Old collections

Store in Mestre: statistics, old periodicals

Collection Management

Overview on collection workflow:

tenders for books and journals acquisition

 

users' suggestions approved by Library board

 

cooperation with Digital library

 

Collection Management

Software for every day tasks: Sebina Next, Titulus, Mepa, Biblioguest

Genesis of BEC

2004: Economics, Management, Statistics, Centre for statistics documentation, European documentation centre

 

2010: Mathematics and Tourism

 

2015: Law

Genesis of BEC

Why making 3 moves in about 10 years?

Lack of spaces

Genesis of BEC

Why making 3 moves in about 10 years?

Distance

between old libraries

for  collecting books

Law Library - Ca' Bottacin

Management Library - Ca' Bembo

Mathematics Library - Ca' Dolfin

Economics Library and CEDOSTA
 - San Giobbe

Statistics  Library - Palazzo Parisi

Tourism Library -Oriago

Genesis of BEC

Why making 3 moves in about 10 years?

Need of new comfortable places​

Old reading rooms in 
Ca' Bottacin 
(former Law library)

Genesis of BEC

Economics

59441 vols.

2004

Management

38953 vols.

Statistics

13227 vols.

Centre for statistics

documentation

21096 vols.

European

documentation

centre

3105 vols.

Genesis of BEC

Siamo stati un cantiere. Oggi siamo una biblioteca.
We have been a building site. Today we are a library.                                                                    
Daniela Grandin, 2007

setting up material

Genesis of BEC

Preconditions:

Preconditions:

Genesis of BEC

measures and project

Step 1.

adoption of DDC for current collections

Genesis of BEC

Step 2.

 

check of double subscriptions

 

old titles and years pre-1995 stored

Genesis of BEC

but in 2015 ...

... all years of current journals on open shelves.

Genesis of BEC

Reasons:

 

use of law journals old years

 

cut of print journals since 2009

Genesis of BEC

Step 3.

when the going gets tough, the tough get going!

Genesis of BEC

desk in Campus

 

for loan and

consultation service

Tricks...

Genesis of BEC

high water and wrek risk

... and dangers

 

application of tattle tags and barcodes

 

tag editing and printing

Genesis of BEC

2010: Mathematics and Tourism

Library

Genesis of BEC

2015: Law Library

Discard Policies

BEC is the result of the fusion of 32 collections

all specialized in branches of the same subjects

Italian Code on National Heritage, d.lgs 42/04

Art. 21, c. 1, lett.d

1. Sono subordinati ad autorizzazione del Ministero:

d) lo scarto dei documenti degli archivi pubblici e degli archivi privati per i quali sia intervenuta la dichiarazione ai sensi dell'articolo 13, nonché lo scarto di materiale bibliografico delle biblioteche pubbliche, con l'eccezione prevista all'articolo 10, comma 2, lettera c), e delle biblioteche private per le quali sia intervenuta la dichiarazione ai sensi dell'articolo 13 (2).

Discard Policies

1. Selection of double copies;

2. collection of administrative data (still on paper, for years before 2011; lot of inventory books available only in another location);

3. check of almost 3 libraries in Italy were you can find same book or year of serial;

4. creation of lists with all this information;

5. approval by Library’s Board;

6. approval by SBA Board;

7. approval by Authority of National Heritage;

8. refresh of collections.

Discard Policies

Discard Policies

2016/2017: discard of 4200 inventories

2018: arrangement of about 300 inventories 

2018 projects

  1. Laptop loan
  2. Automatic loan project
  3. User education (Moodle platform implementation)
  4. Software cooperation (Sebina + Ugov)
  5. Open times extension
  6. University repository implementation

 

MAIN SOURCES

Il macello di San Giobbe: un'industria - un territorio, a cura di G. Caniato - R. Dalla Venezia, Marsilio, Venezia 2006

Dal commercio all'Economia: il luogo, l'architettura e le collezioni della biblioteca di San giobbe, BEC, Venezia 2007
OTHER QUOTED REFERENCES

D. Grandin 2007, "Studiare a San Giobbe. La biblioteca di Economia", in Dal commercio all'economia, pp. 17-23

E. Concina 1989, Venezia nell'età moderna, Struttura e funzioni, Marsilio, Venezia.
Sara Franzoso - sarafra@unive.it -  T +39 041 234 8774
Linda Spinazzé - linda.spinazze@unive.it - T +39 041 234 8778

Biblioteca di Area economica
Università Ca' Foscari
San Giobbe - Cannaregio 810
30121 - Venezia
www.unive.it/bec
@BEC_UNIVE

 

 

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