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Equipments


The UAB Library Service offers to their users:
 
Library equipment

The UAB Libraries add among its 13 sites about 35,500 m2, with 57 linear Km. of shelving and 4,661 reading seats and group work.

Computer equipment

The UAB Library Service provides to their users 458 PCs and 56 laptops to loan as computer equipment in the reading rooms. PCs permanently updated according to criteria of the UAB Computing Service. In addition to all areas of the libraries have Wi-Fi connection.
We also have lending machines, e-book readers, PDAs, etc...

Audiovisual consult points:

Offers also 74 audiovisual points

Equipment to aid disabled people

Visual impairment: extended keyboard, Pocket PC, TV magnifiers and Braille lines.
Hearing impairment: FM radio, recorder and transcription camcorder.
Disabled with limited mobility: Keyboards with cover, one-handed keyboards, ball mouse, MP3 recorder, PDA-communicator.

Other facilities:

Libraries are increasingly incorporate all kinds of facilities to support its users: multifunction equipment, screens, blackboards and parerographs to make presentations, broadcast screens, PA system, scanners, stethoscopes, photocopiers, printers, CD players and / or videos, back mailboxes, etc.. (Report 2009)

Our Commitment

  • We provide a constantly updated computer equipment
  • We offer a wide opening
  • Guarantee a permanent availability of computer servers, and the resolution of 80% of the incidents in less than 48 hours off
  •  We have tools and spaces of work adapted for users with special needs.

Indicators

  • Percentage for renewal computer equipment
  • Surveys of user satisfaction
  • Number of adapted equipment.
  • Number of  reading sites and group work
 

 

 

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