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3. Chapingo, MEX. CENTRAL LIBRARY Autonomous University of Chapingo

Chapingo had not returned in over two decades, but the truth did not find major changes, it continues to finance the rural landscape, painted with some new buildings. I was impressed they could not remember the Central Library, which some in the campus called "The Beehive" by the structure that covers the walls of glass.
In February 1963, President López Mateos announced Chapingo Plan, designed to train professionals to boost the country's agricultural development. The aim was to integrate education, research and extension, for results to arrive promptly to the farmers. The National School of Agriculture had settled in what was the Hacienda de Chapingo, a place that until 1923 was owned by General Manuel Gonzalez and their children. General Gonzalez was president of Mexico and very close to General Porfirio Díaz.
The February 22, 1967, as part of Plan Chapingo, opened the library of which we speak, in a building that still it holds as the first built expressly for this occasion in Mexico to house a library. This construction consists of a quadrant of 50 meters per side, which gives us 2.500 m2 for each of its three floors, so it has a total area of \u200b\u200b7.500 m2, with capacity of 250 thousand volumes, with 845 seats available simultaneous reading. Access by the main floor, and calls to other levels "ground floor" and "story."
A service guidebook of 2004, stand out as relevant developments in the library commented that in 1970 there were several jobs to support compilation the national agricultural literature, in addition to type library was considered to Latin America, by nature of its collection and its organization. In 1984 he began to automate their processes and in 1992 acquired the Dynix automated system, which changed in 1997 for the current Horizon.
Her collections are: General, in consultation, theses, periodicals, the map library, pamphlets, vertical file (we call "reprinted," but has reprints and loose papers), slides, compact discs ( mainly INEGI), and library and special collections, among which University funds Chapingo, Graduate College, FAO, INEGI, Mexican Agricultural Congress, Library of writings of Dr. Jerzy Rzedowsky, experimental station, the historical background of books and the archive, although the latter is administered by the Director of Central Library, but only occupies a space within the enclosure.
The Central Library is home to around 107 000 titles to 155 thousand volumes of books and theses. In addition, there are about 17 thousand titles of pamphlets. The periodicals are acquired by purchase (about 200 current titles) and by exchange or donation. It also has databases and periodicals line to be acquired by subscription.
The library has 15 computers to query the OPAC and 15 in a room called "Universiade", which is designed to query databases, online journals, and also to check e-mail. As the staff told us, they only work 11 computers to query the OPAC and nine Universia room. Open shelf
has the following collections: General, consultation, Map Library and INEGI. Everything else is closed stack. Use the Dewey Decimal Classification to organize their collections and their size has been divided into the general collection floors of the main floor and upstairs in the following way: On the first floor are the numbers 000-595, and the main floor are the numbers 600-972.
The Central Library has a digital library network, which has hosted two thousand theses published since 2004, as well as journals specific to the University in digital format, with a small form to the articles.
has a Monday to Friday 8:00 to 22:00. Their services start at 8:30 am and end at 21:30 hours. Its 35 employees make the process and provide loan services (domestic, home, special, ILL and reserve) consultation (defined as advice literature), photocopying, binding, loan facilities (multipurpose room, reading areas, cubicles and individual modules), and the room Universia.
When asked two staff members on the main problem of the library got different answers: one said we are two main problems: The growth within a confined space can not be enlarged, which are seeking to meet with the digitization and the acquisition of digital documents, the other problem is budget, and has been in some years not to buy anything. Another interviewee told us that the main problem of the library is the library-user relationship, which manifests itself in an open confrontation, damage to the acquis and the facilities and told us in situations that relate to a very damaged. One manifestation of this problem is found in the floor, next to the library counter argument, which is a unique poster called "The Phantom of the library." Near the entrance had other posters that refer to the mutilation of the acquis.
Before proceeding I must clarify that potential users of this library will have about seven thousand students from the University of attending between one and two thousand users daily use library services.
Now see the text of the poster "The Phantom of the Library":
"They say a ghost has been installed at the Central Library. They say that sweeps away all water goes unannounced. The same destroys, mutilates, books away, which gives for defacing strange hieroglyphs in the cubicles and study rooms. They say they already sounded the alarm, but as the ghost is a wily brand, the results have not been entirely happy ... Do you have some clue to grab? We appreciate any information. "
my informant, when asked about the causes of this situation, said that because the University provides all facilities to students, and so they behave arrogant with librarians, causing a natural response. However, later indicated that induction is given to the library to new students, though no longer carried out at 100%. He also mentioned that University policy, you can not charge anything to the students, and that sanctions can only be temporary. In contrast, we observed a message from the entry referred to cancel the service and another next to the turnstiles O indicating that the packages are left in the cloakroom, where he leads a complicated procedure of registration cards for stop and remove the objects, and which only accepts backpacks or briefcase size no larger than 40x20x30 cm. We also caught my attention the almost total lack of signage to find the libraries or to locate the bathrooms.
I would add that on campus, over the years, other libraries have been created in the departments, divisions and research centers, totaling 17, with collections ranging from one with 420 titles and 520 volumes on open shelves Library (UCAM) to the Division of Economic and Administrative Sciences degrees and 23.240 to 11.179 volumes on open shelves. These libraries are outside the Central Library are automated SIABUC system with Version 8, provides loans and consulting services, eight of them have web page own since 2005 and several have a page with a search engine for locating in the catalogs. The site of this search engine is http://www.bibliotecas.chapingo.mx.
Both the Central Library and other libraries are part of the Mexican Network of Agricultural Libraries (REMBA) and integrated within the System Information and Documentation System of the Americas.
For those interested in making a trip to the past and know the first building for a library in our country, the Central Library Autonomous University of Chapingo is located at km. 38.5 of the Mexico-Texcoco, Mexico state. The email address of your web site, with access to digital library http://www.ceres.chapingo.mx. Their phone numbers are (595) 952-1500, ext. 7111, 5741 and 5440.

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