Contact
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Address
- Rúa dos Feáns, s/n. Campus Vida, 15782Santiago de Compostela
- Phones
- 881 815 210
- Schedule
- REGULAR HOURS: Monday to Friday: from 8:30 AM to 9:30 PM. Weekends and holidays: from 10:00 AM to 7:30 PM. SUMMER HOURS: August 1st to 30th: Monday to Friday, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM; Weekends and holidays: Closed.
The Concepción Arenal Library, inaugurated in 2003, serves the degree courses for the Faculties of Law, Political and Social Sciences and Labour Relations, although it welcomes students and research staff from all the degree courses taught at the University, making it an authentic campus library.
Located in its own building, opposite the Faculty of Law, it has six floors divided into three different areas: Study area (floors -1, -2 and -3), access (floor 0) and research area (floors 1 and 2).
Collections
Resources
The Library's collections, almost all of which have open access, are made up of more than 190,000 volumes of textbooks and almost 5,000 journal titles (4,782 closed and some 200 in progress). The main areas of knowledge represented in its resources reflect the research and teaching carried out in the Faculties of Law, Political and Social Sciences and Labour Relations:
- Law.
- Criminology.
- Political Science and Administration.
- Sociology.
- Political economics.
- Labour relations and human resources.
Historical Collection
This collection has closed access on the first floor and can be consulted on request, and is excluded from home loan. The bibliographic collection is made up of more than 10,000 books, from 1560 to 1969, from the collections of the different areas of the Faculty of Law and part of the legacy of its professor and dean Paulino Pedret Casado (1899-1969), with a very complete, extensive library (with about 4,200 identified copies), and very rare documents on Galicia, distributed by different libraries of the USC.
In the 20th century there were also two other important additions: the library from the internationalist Camilo Barcia Trelles (1888-1977), comprising some 2,810 titles of textbooks, mainly on international legal subjects, published between 1861 and 1977, and that from the Professor of Penitentiary Law, Agustín Fernández Albor (1929-1987), comprising 1,209 titles of textbooks published between 1843 and 1987.
This century, the collection from donations has continued to grow, with the donation to the library by the family of the Professor of Civil Law, José Manuel Lete del Río (1938-2007), which consists of 1,182 titles published between 1846 and 2007, and from the family and personal library of the UCM Professor of International Relations, Eduardo Vilariño Pintos, with an initial donation of 324 titles, the first of which was published in 1591 and, since his retirement, his professional library until 2016, totalling 2,435 copies.
In 2013, the family of the professor Carolina Rovira bequeathed to the USC, the library created by the late professor throughout her teaching and research activity at this University. Her professional library was accepted not only due to the intrinsic value of its collections, but also due to its value as a collection for the studies of Philosophy of Law.
In 2016, the University accepted the legacy of the Professor of International Public Law, Manuel Pérez González, retired from the Complutense University of Madrid, but closely linked to the University of Compostela, where he was professor and dean of the Faculty of Law, where he left a deep imprint. His professional library is already incorporated in its entirety, with a total of 1,493 copies. It is particularly valuable in subjects such as international humanitarian law.
During 2018, the family of Juan Luis Pintos (1939-2018), professor at the Faculty of Political Science, donated his professional library, with 1,484 volumes, mainly related to sociology, now fully processed and available to the university community. Recently, this collection in the field of sociology was increased with more than 1,500 volumes thanks to the family donation of the former professor of this university, José Castillo Castillo (1931-2019), a legacy that is in the process of being added to the collections.
IDIUS Collection
The Concepción Arenal Library houses the library of the former Industrial Law Institute of the USC, a library specialising in industrial property, intellectual property and competition law, with more than 9,300 volumes and numerous periodicals.
Initially, the IDIUS Library was located in the Department of Commercial Law, the Institute’s headquarters, and, at present, its bibliographic collections are integrated in the Concepción Arenal Library, and can be consulted in the researchers' room on the first floor.
This is a collection with a high degree of updating and the Institute has had the financial collaboration of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office to acquire part of its bibliographic collections.
CEDE Collection
In 2009, the entire collection of the European Documentation Centre, now called the Centre for European Studies and Documentation (CEDE), was incorporated into the Concepción Arenal Library. Its collections are located in the researchers' room on the first floor with open access, but are not available for loan.
The bibliographic collection consists of more than 5,000 books and brochures published mainly by the Publications Office of the European Union, more than 100 journal titles, as well as .COM documents up to 2009, Commission opinions up to 2003 and European Parliament session documents up to 1999.
Direction
José Rodríguez Dopazo
- Email: jose.rodriguez.dopazo [at] usc.es (jose[dot]rodriguez[dot]dopazo[at]usc[dot]es)
- Tel.: +34 881 815 211
Administration
Manuel Fernández Rodríguez
- Email: manuel.fernandez.rodriguez [at] usc.es (manuel[dot]fernandez[dot]rodriguez[at]usc[dot]es)
- Tel.: +34 881 815 212
Services Office
Information, interlibrary lending, user training
- Tel.: +34 881 815 214
María Carmen Cierto Castaño (Mornings)
- Email: mariacarmen.cierto [at] usc.es (mariacarmen[dot]cierto[at]usc[dot]es)
Lucía Durán Espasandín (Afternoons)
- Email: lucia.duran.espasandin [at] usc.es (lucia[dot]duran[dot]espasandin[at]usc[dot]es)
Collection Management Office
- Tel.: +34 881 815 215
Technical processing (mornings)
Montserrat Ortega González
- Email: montse.ortega [at] usc.es (montse[dot]ortega[at]usc[dot]es)
Periodicals (afternoons)
Ana Calvo Carballeira
- Email: ana.calvo.carballeira [at] usc.es (ana[dot]calvo[dot]carballeira[at]usc[dot]es)
Lending, information, reading room
- Email: biblioteca.concepcionarenal.servizos [at] usc.es (biblioteca[dot]concepcionarenal[dot]servizos[at]usc[dot]es)
- Tel.: +34 881 815 210
Mornings
Xesús Eduardo García Bermúdez
Raquel Pérez Santos
Xosefina Guitián Lema
Victoria Eugenia Paz Cuevas (Mondays and Tuesdays)
Afternoons
Isabel Corral Pérez
Paula Luis González
Lucas Sánchez Taboada
Weekends and Public Holidays
Miguel González Río
Xosé Antón Ruibal Rodríguez
Reception service
- Email: conserxeria.concepcionarenal [at] usc.gal (conserxeria[dot]concepcionarenal[at]usc[dot]gal)
- Tel.: +34 881 815 210
Mornings
Julio Avelino Nistal Roca
- Email: julioavelino.nistal [at] usc.es (julioavelino[dot]nistal[at]usc[dot]es)
Afternoons
Felisa Fernández Alves
- Email: felisa.fernandez [at] usc.es (felisa[dot]fernandez[at]usc[dot]es)
Aurelia Fernández Magadán
- Job title
- Concierge
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- aurelia.fernandez [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Afternoon shift
Guillermo Acosta González
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 982 815 210
- guillermo.acosta [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Afternoon schedule
José Rodríguez Dopazo
- Job title
- Management
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Phones
- 881 815 211
- jose.rodriguez.dopazo [at] usc.gal
Julio Avelino Nistal Roca
- Job title
- Concierge
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- julioavelino.nistal [at] usc.es
- Schedule
- Morning shift
Lucía Durán Espasandín
- Job title
- Technical staff
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Phones
- 881 815 214
- lucia.duran.espasandin [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Afternoon shift
Maite Sanmartín Cardama
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 881 812 210
- maite.sanmartin.cardama [at] usc.es
- Schedule
- Morning shift
Manuel Fernández Rodríguez
- Job title
- Administration
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Phones
- 881 815 212
- manuel.fernandez.rodriguez [at] usc.gal
María Carmen Cierto Castaño
- Job title
- Technical staff
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Phones
- 881 815 214
- mariacarmen.cierto [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Morning shift
Miguel González Río
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- biblioteca.concepcionarenal.servizos [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Weekend and festive shifts
Montserrat Ortega González
- Job title
- Technical staff
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Phones
- 881 815 215
- montse.ortega [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Morning shift
Paula Luis González
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- biblioteca.concepcionarenal.servizos [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Afternoon shift
Raquel Pérez Santos
- Job title
- Technical staff
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Phones
- 881 815 215
- biblioteca.concepcionarenal.servizos [at] usc.gal
Sara M. Cid Álvarez
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- saram.cid [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Afternoon shift
Xesús Eduardo García Bermúdez
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- biblioteca.concepcionarenal.servizos [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Morning shift
Xosé Antón Ruibal Rodríguez
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- biblioteca.concepcionarenal.servizos [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Weekend and festive shifts
Xosefina Guitián Lema
- Job title
- Auxiliary staff
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Phones
- 881 815 210
- biblioteca.concepcionarenal.servizos [at] usc.gal
- Schedule
- Morning shift