Fine Arts CRAI Library: quick guide. Academic year 2022-23
Author: Fine Arts CRAI Library
Keywords: User training, CRAI, Library, Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, information resources, services, guides

Spaces and Facilities

Address

The library has,
222 individual workplaces
54 points of electrical connections
15 computers for doing searches
Computer room with 19 computers and multimedia screen
4 group workrooms
3 laptops for loans
Photo playback table
Light table
Three lockers to keep
electrical scooters

Keep silence
Turn off the mobiles or keep them in silence
Don’t reserve individual workplaces
Responsible use of the equipments
and facilities

Basic rules

Map

Baldiri Reixac, 2, 1st floor— 08028 Barcelona

7, 54 and 74

Av. de Xile

L5 and L9 (Collblanc) and L3 (Zona Universitària)

Contact and opening hours

Website and social networks

In the Fine Arts CRAI Library web you’ll find all the information about the current events, collections, facilities, equipment, services and so on.
Through our social networks, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Flickr we inform daily about the current events about the Library and you can use these networks to keep in contact with us.

@craibellesarts

934 034 595

craibellesarts@ub.edu

Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

© CRAI, academic year 2023-24

Fine Arts CRAI Library

Introduction

The Fine Arts CRAI Library gets a specialized collection of 37.000 monographs and 525 journal titles, on paper and electronic form to support teaching and research of the Fine Arts, Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Design degrees of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
The Fine Arts CRAI Library collection combines books about techniques, manuals and recommended bibliography with the artists monographs: painters, sculptors, photographers, which are classified by alphabetic order of the name of the artist.
An important collection of comics is part of our bibliographic collection too.

Distribution of the collection

More information in: https://crai.ub.edu/en/about-crai/libraries/fine-arts

Special collections

Compilation of documents from personal collections of important artists, their works of art which are the result of their professional activity.
The Fine Arts CRAI Library also has these special collections:
Josep Artigas - Graphic designer collection
Ricard Giralt Miracle collection
Artists monographs collection
The characteristic of the artist's book is being a standardized communication instrument, while betting on contemporary manufacturing techniques and transforming the ordinary book into the support of an artistic project.
In the CRAI library catalog you will find these books searching by subject "Llibres d’artistes".

Digital collections

The digital collections of the Fine Arts CRAI Library can be consulted through the digital repositories of the UB.
Some of these collections are:
Josep Artigas–Graphic designer
Ricard Giralt Miracle digital collection
Fine arts and graphic arts
The repositories are available in open access.

Access to information resources online

To consult the information resources which are contracted by the CRAI, it’s necessary to identify yourself with the UB identifier and activate the Intermediate Service for access to Electronic Resources (SIRE).
For those resources which are open access, these identifiers are not required.

Quality and continued improvements are our
commitment

Cercabib

Is the University of Barcelona CRAI’s discovery tool, which allows you to search through the entire CRAI collection: paper and electronic copies of books, journals, magazine articles, doctoral theses and audio-visual materials.
The Cercabib, through the CCUC, allows the access to the collections of Catalan university libraries and other research and academic centers in Catalonia.
The CRAI offers a wide range of services for the entire university community, some of these services are:

Services

Loans
Bibliographic information
Support for teaching staff and researchers
Support on writing academic papers
User training
Support on copyright, intellectual property and open access

For any questions, the library staff
is at your disposal