Geography and History Library Guide

Biblioteca de Geografía e HistoriaUniversidad Complutense de Madrid

Geography and History Library Guide

• How to Find a Book

• Journals

• Collections

• Library Spaces and Reading Seats

• Electronic Resources

• Laptop Loan Services and Printing

• Interlibrary Loan

• My Library Account

• Renew and Request

• Entitlements and Loan Periods

• Loans

• How Do I Contact the Library

• How to Get to Our Library

• Suggest an Item for the Collection
• Questions About Our Resources and Services
• Complaints or Suggestions

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Using the Library

• Face-to-Face Training
• Information Skills Online Courses
• Guided Tours

Library Training

• Opening Hours

General Information

Spaces and Collections

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The Library is open from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 21:00 p.m. For holiday periods (Christmas, Easter, July and August) we announce our opening hours on our website Exceptional opening hours: María Zambrano Library is open every weekend and during examination periods its opening hours are extended.

Geography and History Library Guide

OPENING HOURS

Public Transportation

Address C/ del Profesor Aranguren, 5 - Ciudad Universitaria 28040 Madrid

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City Buses (EMT). Lines: F (Cuatro Caminos - Ciudad Universitaria) G (Moncloa - Ciudad Universitaria) 83 (Moncloa - Barrio del Pilar) 133 (Callao - Mirasierra) 162 (Moncloa - El Barrial) Intercity Buses (CRTM) Lines 601, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 656A, 657, 658, N901, N902 y N906. Metro Line 6 Circular (Stop: Ciudad Universitaria)

HOW TO GET TO OUR LIBRARY

Social Networks

E-mail

• Information: buc_ghi@buc.ucm.es
• Loans: bucprghi@buc.ucm.es
• Interlibrary Loan: bucpighi2@buc.ucm.es
• Acquisitions: bucaqghi@buc.ucm.es

• Library Director: 91 394 6072
• Library Technical Services: 91 394 6083
• Acquisitions: 91 394 6064
• General Information and Loans: 91 394 6074 / 6080
• Interlibrary Loan: 91 394 6069
• Bibliographic Services: 91 394 6069
• Map Library: 91 394 6033
• Sound and Moving Image Library: 91 394 5761
• Deposit 1: 91 394 6063
• Deposit 2: 91 394 6084

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Telephone

HOW DO I CONTACT THE LIBRARY

Wifi Access throughout the Library and tables with built-in power outlets.

• Reading Rooms: 719
• Journals Area and individual carrels of Depot 1: 197
• Group Study Area: 100
• Training rooms (Map Room and Multipurpose Room): 55

The Library offers a broad range of spaces to support learning, study and research. Over 1.000 study spaces across the Library building, including areas for quiet study, group study and researcher spaces:

Geography and History Library Guide

LIBRARY SPACES

Our Library is home to over 400.000 books, journals and other items:

• Books: 382.916 (over 43.000 books on open shelves)
• Journal titles: 3451
• Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials (CD and DVD): 4277
• Maps: 10.434

How do I find a book? All books in our library are assigned a call number, found on the book spine. The call number represents the subject of the book and acts like the book’s address on the library shelves. For example: H 946 FON. The first letter indicates the collection (H = History Area); the numbers indicate the subject (946 = History of Spain) and the last three letters indicate the author (FON = Fontana). In order to find the specific area where the call number item is located you can check this quick resume:

• Reading Rooms: H, R, G, A, R, LIT
• Depots (It is necessary to request them through the advance request of the catalogue): D, DD, DA, PRE, GH, GH-A, GH-B, P, PF, PP, TEA

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COLLECTIONS

Our library has more than 3450 print journal titles (call number: PP), excluded from home loan. The numbers of the last two years of the most popular journals are at the Periodicals Room (Third Floor) and the previous ones are in the depots. We also provide access to the full text of over 36.000 journals. Most of the journals can be consulted by log in yourself with your UCM email and password. Just to consult some of them you will need to connect to a VPN. Electronic Journals How to set up a VPN

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JOURNALS

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If you wish to borrow from the Library you will need your University Card or the Library Card. Books from the Reading Rooms can be issued using our self-service machines. Items requested by the Cisne catalogue from our depots must be collected from the library carts and brought to the Helpdesk to be borrowed. Your loans and their return dates are shown in your Library Account. As a general rule the following items are excluded from loan:

• Reference items
• Journals
• Rare material, specially items published before 1958
• Theses

ENTITLEMENTS AND LOAN PERIODS

LOANS

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ENTITLEMENTS AND LOAN PERIODS

Geography and History Library Guide

You may renew your items online through your Library Account. Also, items can be renewed with your Library card using the self-service machines or at the Library Helpdesk. All items from the general collection may be renewed up to 10 times if:

• the item has not been requested by another user
• the loan period has not expired
• you are not sanctioned

If an item is on loan to another user, you can request the item through our library catalogue. You cannot place a reserve on items availables at other UCM libraries. You can have up to 10 requests on your record at one time, including requests waiting to be collected. Once the item is returned to the library, we will send you and e-mail letting you know the item is ready to collect at the Library Helpdesk. You will have three days to collect your item. Uncollected requests move on to the next person in the queue or are reshelved. You can cancel your request from your Library Account before we send you the confirmation email.

RENEW AND REQUEST

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The simplest way to access your library account is through your UCM user panel. Likewise, you can go to the Library homepage and select the icon named “My Library Account”. You can log into your Library Account using your University email and password, the same one you use to access your email or Virtual Campus. Once you have logged in, you can:

• View items you are currently borrowing and their return dates
• Renew items
• Manage your reserved items and check your queue position
• Save up to 100 searches
• Create personal lists of records

MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

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This service allows you to request materials that are not held in the University libraries. We can obtain a wide variety of documents from any external library and also provide access to our holdings to other institutions’ libraries. The service is available to the following Complutense University members: Teaching staff; Researcher Administrative and Service staff; Students (10 volumes on loan per month). You can register by filling this form Materials that you may borrow include:

• Books —including special and non-book materials— available for loan.
• Photocopies of book chapters or journal articles. Preferentially, journal articles and book chapters will be sent to you via email in PDF format.

There are two ways to submit a request:

• Whenever possible, filling the Interlibrary Loan form
• Sending your request via email

Before submitting your request, please check the Library Catalogue to see if another UCM library has available copies in its collection. Once the item is available, we will send you an email letting you know the item is ready to collect at the Interlibrary Loan Office (ground floor). The item should be returned to the same place.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Geography and History Library Guide

Complutense Library provides access to the full text of over 400.000 books and 36.000 journal titles, available via the Cisne Catalogue. Most of the them can be consulted by log in yourself with your user and password. Just to consult some of them you will need to connect to a Virtual Private Network (click to learn how to set up a VPN ).

• Electronic books
• Electronic journals
• Databases

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Geography and History Library Guide

In addition to the 26 computers distributed throughout the building, 19 laptops are available for loan in our library. You can borrow a laptop from the Helpdesk with your University Card or Library Card. All laptops come with a carry case, power cable and an adaptor. You can also loan a computer mouse. The loan period is from 9:00 a.m. to 20:30 p.m. and if you want, you can use the laptop outside the library. The laptop must be returned to the Helpdesk half an hour earlier the library closes. The laptop is for personal use only. You must not borrow it to someone else. No personal software or programs may be loaded on to the laptops. Please do not leave the laptop unattended. Near the Helpdesk you have 4 computers with scanners at your disposal. If you need to print a document, you should go to the faculty reprography service (Monday to Friday, from 09:00 a.m.-15:00 p.m. and 16:00 p.m.-18:00 p.m.).

LAPTOP LOAN SERVICE AND PRINTING

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We offer a wide variety of courses designed to help you to develop your skills in information discovery, such as face-to-face training or information skills online courses. Our offer combines introductory courses for new users with specialized workshops like:

• Catalogues, databases and e-journals use
• Advanced use of bibliographic management software and information resources about Art, Geography, History and Music
• Information and guidelines to help prepare for research projects (TFG/TFM)
• Research evaluation

These are available to all students, staff and other members of the University. Our courses are free, but please register to secure your place. The library hosts guided tours and introductory sessions throughout the year (advance booking is necessary). For more information about our activities, please check our website

LIBRARY TRAINING

Geography and History Library Guide

We want to constantly improve as a library, so we highly appreciate the input from users. Please, let us know what you think about our collection, facilities and services. You can contact us through different channels depending of your interest:

• Suggest an item for the collection by filling the Suggestion for purchase form
• If you have questions about our resources or services, please fill the enquiry form
• Use the feedback form if you have complaints or suggestions about our library

For further information please contact us by chat (Monday to Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 13:00 p.m.), social media or using our Library Staff Directory.

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