Library

General information

The School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage considers it one of its priorities to facilitate access to existing documentation related to the subjects taught in the institution, especially considering that due to its specificity, this documentation is often difficult to access.

Throughout the decades of teaching in our school, we have been able to build up an interesting bibliographic collection consisting of publications related to the world of cultural heritage, both in the field of conservation and restoration as well as in its historical, artistic, technical-scientific, legal, etc. aspects. The exchange of publications with institutions related to cultural heritage, many of them foreign, has greatly enriched the holdings of our library with specialized and uncommon titles.

How to become a user:
The users of the ESCRBC library are the students and teachers of the school. Access to library services is granted with the school ID card. External individuals can consult the library’s collection upon presenting personal identification (ID card, passport). The library is open from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM as a study hall.

Library email:biblioteca@escrbc.com

Collection and Hours:

Our library’s collection is constantly growing through the acquisition of new volumes and the exchange of publications with other institutions via the Revista Pátina, published by ESCRBC. The collection includes over five thousand monographs and more than one hundred and fifty periodicals. The collection is available to users in the reading room on the following schedule:

• Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: 9:00 AM to 2:45 PM
• Wednesday: 2:00 PM to 5:45 PM

The borrowing hours are:

• Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
• Wednesday (afternoon only): 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

The library has its own classification system suited to the specificity of its collection.

Documents can be located in two catalogs:

• OPAC-RBEASM: This catalog is accessible online and belongs to the Network of Libraries of Higher Art Schools of Madrid (RBEASM). Access the catalog.
• ABIES 2.0: This catalog cannot be consulted online, so the library staff will perform the search in the library.

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Services

• Room Consultation The ESCRBC library has a reading and study room available to users during the center’s opening hours. It has 20 reading positions. Its collections are closed, which means they can only be consulted during the library staff’s working hours.
• Interlibrary Loan We have an interlibrary loan service in collaboration with the Library of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE). This service allows users of our library to borrow books as well as copies of articles and/or parts of books, provided they are not available in our collection. To make a request, you must contact the library staff either in person or by email (biblioteca@escrbc.com). The library will notify the user by email upon receiving the requested material. The interlibrary loan period for books is fifteen days, and their consultation will be done in the school library itself.
• Computers and Wi-Fi Access The library has six computers with internet access and two scanners for exclusive academic use. In addition, library users with a laptop or tablet can access the internet for free via wireless connection.
• Reference and Bibliographic Guidance The library provides service and guidance to users in their information needs both in person and by email biblioteca@escrbc.com. For this purpose, it uses both internal information sources and those external sources accessible via the internet.
• Training Throughout the academic year, the library offers training courses to users (students and teachers).
• Suggestions for Acquisition of Bibliographic Material If you miss any title of special interest to library users, you can propose its acquisition by sending the wishlist to the email biblioteca@escrbc.com

Newsletter of Novelties and Journal Summaries

• Newsletter of New Arrivals
• Last Newsletter of New Arrivals
• You can also check the latest acquisitions in the OPAC RBEASM.
• Table of Contents
• Links to the table of contents of available journals.

RBEASM (Network of Libraries of Higher Artistic Education Centers in the Community of Madrid)

The Network of Libraries of Higher Artistic Education Centers in Madrid was established in 2013 with the initial goal of implementing a unified catalog for all participating centers and sharing bibliographic resources. Since February 2014, the catalog has been accessible online, managed in collaboration with the Subdirectorate General of Books of the Community of Madrid. On September 1, 2018, the Agreement on the Network’s Loan Service came into effect, allowing all network users to benefit from home loans from any of the participating libraries.

RBEASM is under the authority of the Directorate General of Universities and Higher Artistic Education of the Ministry of Education and Research of the Community of Madrid, and it includes the libraries of the six public centers that offer Higher Artistic Education:

• Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales
• Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid
• Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático
• Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila
• Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid
• Escuela Superior de Diseño

AFEDA (Asociación para el Fomento de la Encuadernación de Arte)

The bibliographic holdings of the Association for the Promotion of Artistic Bookbinding (AFEDA) are deposited in the Library of the Superior School of Conservation and Restoration. Prior identification is required for access to the reading room, with the school ID for library users and ID or passport for external individuals.

Catalog of monographs:

“Encuadernación de Arte” is the only Spanish-language journal specialized in bookbinding, restoration, collecting, and book arts. It can also be consulted in the reading room.
Summaries

Resources of Interest

Selection of resources available on the Internet related to the subjects specialized by the library: conservation and restoration of cultural heritage.

• Bibliographic searches
• Access to documents
• Repositories
• Institutions of interest