About CRAI UPAEP

The network: CRAI

Library Resources Center or LRC

The UPAEP Libraries belong to a collegiate body called CRAI, Library Resources Center, which is part of the General Direction of Academic Support UPAEP.

Libraries are considered in our university environment as spaces for reflection and expression; they are dedicated to building this environment on a daily basis through the support provided to the substantive functions of teaching, research and extension.

Libraries, as an important link in the chain of human communication, become a great cohesive force, at a time when social cohesion is of vital importance. While the media are declarative, libraries provide an environment of permanent reflection, where a variety of issues are analyzed and raised, hoping to find answers and alternative solutions to the problems of man, society and the implications of globalization and scientific, technological and cultural development.

Libraries are perceived as a living and dynamic place where the university community gathers, brings together its culture, organizes its memory and finds meaning for the development it expects in the future. Libraries are a fundamental environment for the development of academic activity.

In this sense, the ultimate purpose of the library network is the recovery, collection, analysis, organization, classification and dissemination of information. But not all or any information, but that which supports the professional and human formation of students; that which helps to identify the needs and social problems; that which allows differentiating the alternatives and methods of solution; that which keeps the knowledge of reality current; that which records the development of science and culture; primarily, that which is consigned in the current university curriculum.

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Mission and Objectives

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Mission

The mission of the UPAEP libraries is to offer information search services and a user training program, through which students will be able to recognize their need for information, search for it and obtain it on their own in order to transform it into knowledge.

Objectives

Users:

To accustom the university community to the use of the library for continuing education, informational and recreational purposes.
To ensure the access of the university community to a wide range of information sources, resources and services, giving priority to personalized attention and follow-up.
To promote the development of users so that they acquire and exercise the basic skills to obtain and use the necessary information in an autonomous, creative and responsible manner.

Human Resources:

Promote the administrative career, institutional identity and professional and personal satisfaction of the librarian.
Improve personnel management processes in terms of administrative management, recruiting, selecting, hiring, developing and retaining the best human talent.
To enable an internal communication system in which the staff can actively participate.

Assets:

Achieve the development of collections from having or obtaining 100% of the requirements demanded by the current curriculum of the various programs, levels and educational modalities.
Provide continuous support to academic projects; to the linkage with society and business; to institutional development and inter-institutional cooperation; to the promotion of the New Upaep through the development of collections that support the creation of currents of thought.
Obtain diverse documentary collections through national and international donations.
Organize and maintain current collections so that they are in a good state of conservation and can be used by users.

Services:

To provide efficient and quality library services through highly qualified and motivated human resources.

Infrastructure:

Optimize the Library's infrastructure in terms of safe, comfortable and functional spaces.
Maintain the facilities, equipment, furniture and various accessories in optimal conditions of presentation, functionality and use.

Cooperation and collaboration networks:

Promote the beginning of the integration of a UPAEP Library System.
Promote the development of the Library through programs, agreements and cooperation networks with other institutions.
To promote the external projection of the Library.

Financial resources:

To update the Central Library's financing system, providing it with the resources necessary for its operation on a permanent basis.
Promote the cost-effectiveness of some services to external users.
To generate a maximum use of resources that is reflected in the optimization of use, internal savings, recycling of materials and minimum waste generation.

Technological resources:

Consider modern computer, information and communication technologies as key factors for the development and projection of the library.
To have an automated catalog - central and differentiated at the same time - of materials, facilitating individual and interlibrary consultations and transactions, through an Automated System of Professional Library Management (UNISOFT®) that also allows interaction with the academic and administrative systems of the institution and its consultation through the Internet.