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

250.000 books

Books collection

current collection:  CDD

old collections: various old codes

Numbers

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

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

Services

Reference

information research support service

individual or classes

Bloomberg

Numeric database

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

Real-time

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

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