Las iniciativas tecnológicas de la Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria y el apoyo a la investigación en España: primer balance y perspectivas

Abstract

The Subdirectorate for Library Coordination of the Ministry of Culture develops activities with a direct impact on the research work. This unit plays an important role on cataloguing, preserving and disseminating information about bibliographic heritage, as it is responsible of creating and supporting the Spanish Bibliographic Heritage Union Catalogue. The Subdirectorate is also working on the digitalization of large collections as the Virtual Library of Historic Press and it has also implemented an application that provides access to digitized documents by using metadata harvesting techniques. It also publishes statistics with a wide range of essential data useful to investigate about libraries from social, economical, anthropological and librariahship points of view. Besides, it promotes and disseminates standards for information exchange and it coordinates library cooperation projects. All these ini t iatives have had results such as a virtual reference service, catalogues and, over all, a better access to information resources