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
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Why making 3 moves in about 10 years?
Lack of spaces
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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)
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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:
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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
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but in 2015 ...
... all years of current journals on open shelves.
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Reasons:
use of law journals old years
cut of print journals since 2009
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Step 3.
when the going gets tough, the tough get going!
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desk in Campus
for loan and
consultation service
Tricks...
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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
- Laptop loan
- Automatic loan project
- User education (Moodle platform implementation)
- Software cooperation (Sebina + Ugov)
- Open times extension
- 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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