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Address
- Rúa do Franco, s/n, 15782Santiago de Compostela
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- 881 811 080
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- NORMAL OPENING HOURS: Monday to Friday, from 8.30 am to 9.30 pm.
The University Library of Santiago de Compostela is one of the most important university libraries in Spain due to the wealth of its bibliographic collections. Its history reflects the history of the University of Compostela and, to a large extent, the history of Galicia and Spain.
Collections
The collection of books, journals, maps and other bibliographic material allows us to see, for example, the cultural wealth of the religious orders, as can be observed in the valuable bibliographic contributions received due to the expulsion of the Jesuits in the 18th century and the disentailment in the 19th century. It is also possible to appreciate the influence of the intellectual movement during the Enlightenment (this library’s period of consolidation and splendour) and to get to know the readings that formed the thinking of illustrious Galicians such as Manuel Ventura Figueroa, archbishop Lago González, Jacobo de Parga y Puga or the sculptor Felipe de Castro. In its collections you can trace Italy’s influence on the Renaissance culture in Spain, discover one of the most interesting unique bibliographic collections, the America Library, or trace the cultural history of Galicia. The General Library currently houses more than 300,000 volumes and 4,700 periodicals.
Historical collection
The Library has 862 manuscripts, 141 incunabula, 27,725 printed works from the 16th to 18th centuries and 29,727 printed works published between 1801 and 1900.
A large part of the manuscripts in the library come from the Colegio de la Compañía de Jesús in Santiago. The two oldest bibles come from the Colegio de Monterrey, both on vellum, one of them with illuminated capital letters (although few have survived) and dating from the end of the 13th century, and the other, from the 14th century, without illuminations. The number of manuscripts from the old library of the Monastery of San Martín Pinario is equally high. The most precious jewel in the collection, the Diurnal or Book of Hours of Ferdinand I, comes precisely from that monastery. The manuscript, dated 1055, is remarkable due to its extraordinary execution.
Among the incunabula in the library we find the Fasciculus temporum by Werner Rolewinc (Venice, 1479), a very beautiful and rare copy, Dante's Divine Comedy (Florence, 1481) in an edition that has been particularly looked after, the Doctrinal de los caballeros by Afonso García de Santamaría, printed by Fadrique Alemán in Burgos in 1487 and, noted for its peculiarity and uniqueness, Materies Gramaticae by Fernando Nepos, bound with the Gramatica latina by Juan de Pastrana and printed in Salamanca around 1485.
The library has a good number of rare or unique editions from the 16th to the 18th century, covering a wide variety of subjects and in which the value of the authors and the preciosity of the editions are of particular mention. The 19th century, prodigal in scientific advances, led to the presence in the collection of works by Buffon, Cuvier, Humboldt and the Galicians José Rodríguez and Antonio Casares Rodríguez, among others.
Other collections
The General Library has collections that are particularly relevant due to their uniqueness and wealth: the America Library and the Galicia Section.
One of the sections of the collection that is particularly well looked after is the Galicia collection, which includes works on Galician subjects in any language, written in Galician regardless of their place of publication, and all the works by Galician authors and/or published in Galicia, paying special attention to the retrospective collection. Certainly valuable for researchers, especially with regard to the history of Galicia, is the collection deposited in the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country).
The America Library was founded thanks to the efforts of Gumersindo Busto, a Galician emigrant in America, who in the early 20th century managed to collect a large number of books, pamphlets and various objects from different origins. The richness of the collection, especially in 19th century collections and in works relating to early American independence, makes it one of the distinguishing features of the University Library. The collections are multidisciplinary and encyclopaedic in nature.
A large number of reference sources and bibliographic information, an extensive press collection, with a significant number of Galician headlines, and works of a multidisciplinary nature can also be consulted in the General Library.
BUSC (University of Santiago de Compostela Library) Management
M. Isabel Casal Reyes. mabela.casal [at] usc.gal (mabela[dot]casal[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel: 881 811 087
BUSC Sub-Management
María Cana Villar. maria.cana [at] usc.gal (maria[dot]cana[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel.: 881 811 157
Ana González da Costa. ana.gonzalez [at] usc.gal (ana[dot]gonzalez[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel: 881 811 156
Acquisitions Section
M. Carmen Fandiño Suárez. mariadelcarmen.fandino [at] usc.gal (mariadelcarmen[dot]fandino[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel: 881 811 137
Technical Processing Section
M. Nieves Rodríguez Díez. mnieves.rodriguez [at] usc.gal (mnieves[dot]rodriguez[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel: 881 811 088
Services Section
Mara Gutierrez Andrés. biblioteca.xeral.servizos [at] usc.gal (biblioteca[dot]xeral[dot]servizos[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel: 881 811 085
Reading and Lending Rooms
biblioteca.xeral.servizos [at] usc.gal (biblioteca[dot]xeral[dot]servizos[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel.: 881 811 090
Information Service
biblioteca.universitaria.informacion [at] usc.gal (biblioteca[dot]universitaria[dot]informacion[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel.: 881 811 080
Reception Service
biblioteca.xeral.conserxeria [at] usc.gal (biblioteca[dot]xeral[dot]conserxeria[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel.: 881 840 093
Consultation of the Heritage Collection
biblioteca.xeral.salainvestigadores [at] usc.gal (biblioteca[dot]xeral[dot]salainvestigadores[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel.: 881 811 109
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fotprest [at] usc.gal (fotprest[at]usc[dot]gal)
Tel.: 881 811 082
Minerva Institutional Repository
minerva [at] usc.gal (minerva[at]usc[dot]gal)
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Alfonso Parada Vilas
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- ana.gonzalez [at] usc.gal
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