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Presentation

Presentation

The library of the Barcelona Bar Association is an institution "of and for the lawyers". It specialises in Law and Social Sciences and is considered one of the most important law libraries in Europe. From the very beginning, its task is to offer the members of the Bar all necessary resources to support and facilitate the legal practice.

Nowadays it holds over 300.000 volumes, nearly 1,300 regular publications and 50 databases concerning legislation, case-law, authorities, and forms.

The works to computerize the library began in the year 1989; this allows you to search the collection after 1978 by using the online catalogue: nearly 30,000 monographs, all regular publications and nearly 30,000 extracts.

In the last years we have been working to offer free access to the most recent collections, which are constantly being updated. Therefore you will have free access to:

  • the Reading Room, where you can find the monographs published in the last 6 years classified according to subject areas
  • the Newspaper Library, where you can browse the last years of the most frequently requested journals classified in alphabetical order, and the newspapers
  • the Database Rooom, which has 20 computers, with access to all electronic resources and to internet.

Furthermore you have wifi facilities in the whole Library.
To be mentioned is our old collection, currently being computerized and digitalized to facilitate reference and preservation. Up to now over 3,500 books have been classified and roughly 800 digitalized.

This great variety of services makes it a very dynamic Library; as a result it has over 40,000 users a year, and approximately 50,000 catalogue searches, nearly 15,000 loans and a total of 1,500 searches of the old collection.

The main objective is to offer the members of the Bar the best service, adapting to the new information technologies taking into account the renowned historial tradition of the Library. As a result of all this, in July 2000 it was awarded the certificate ISO 9001:2000. It was the first law library in the whole of Spain to obtain such certificate, as it did again in July 2007.

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