The Philology and Communication CRAI Library provides comprehensive materials for the teaching and research activities at the Faculty of Philology and Communication: Communication and the Culture Industry, English Studies, Arab and Hebrew Studies, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Catalan, Spanish, French Language and Cultures, Classics, Linguistics, Modern Language and Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures.
The CRAI Collection Management Unit designs and implements policies on the selection, acquisition, conservation and preservation of information resources, ensuring that the information requirements of all uses are covered.
Functions
The CRAI Teaching Unit manages and provides information resources and useful services for teaching to the UB community, in line with CRAI and UB-wide guidelines.
Functions
The importance of the Rare Book and Manuscript CRAI Library derives from the size and quality of the collection it houses. Following the passing of ecclesiastical confiscation laws in 1835-1836, Barcelona's library collections from convents, which possessed numerous important manuscripts, incunabula and prints dating from 1501 to 1820, were brought together at the University to create a major public library.
The Digitization Center of the University of Barcelona (CEDI) is a service whose mission is to digitize and process documents generated by the University of Barcelona, on a large scale.
Its main function is to digitize the heritage fund of the Center for Resources for Learning and Research (CRAI) and the funds or objects of the other services of the University of Barcelona, always following two lines of action, the creation of digital copies for long-term dissemination and preservation.
The Fine Arts CRAI Library provides comprehensive materials for teaching and research activities at the Faculty for the courses: Fine Arts, Conservation and Restoration, and Design.
The Biology CRAI Library provides comprehensive materials for teaching and research activities at the Faculty for the courses: Biology, Environmental Sciences, Biotechnology, Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry. It was created in 1982 with the stock of the former Seminary of Biology.
The Library also houses the Ramon Margalef López archive. Margalef was the first professor of ecology in Spain, and the archive includes his scientific works and personal documents. Of particular note for teaching are his herbarium and a collection of animal and plant histology slides.
The Bellvitge Campus CRAI Library provides comprehensive materials for teaching and research activities at the Campus's schools and faculties for the following courses: Nursing, Medicine, Dentistry, Podiatry and Biomedical Sciences, and specialization in Mental Health Nursing.
The Clínic Campus CRAI Library provides comprehensive materials for teaching and research activities at the Faculty for the courses: Medicine, Basic Biomedical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Nursing.
It also has an early collection (1821-1945) of books, pamphlets, journals, photographs and other documents of great interest to the history of medicine.
The Mundet Campus CRAI Library provides comprehensive materials for teaching and research activities for courses on the Campus -Teacher Training in Early Childhood Education, Teacher Training in Primary Education, Education, Social Education, Social Work and Psychology- and for masters of Education and Psychology.