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Lending
Document lending is free, there is no membership card and it works with your ID or Passport.
All the material can be lent, except reference works, reserved documents, magazines and books that we consider should have the identification lending excluded.
The lending service is unipersonal, material cannot be lent under another user's name. The material can be returned by any other person.
Minors have to sign up with an adult who will be responsible for their lendings.
Users can borrow:
| Kind of material | Amount | Maximum deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Books CD / CD-ROM DVD / VHS Lectures Alain Daniélou legacy |
20 | 15 days |
The loss or deterioration of documents must be reestablished with the acquisition of a new copy of the same document or paying the price of the copy. Until this happens, the users lending service will be blocked.
Collective Lending
Collective Lending is addressed to educational centres and cultural institutions that would like to use the available collection at the Casa Asia Media Library with the purpose to spread the culture of Asia and the Pacific and serve as a support for teaching and investigation.
Casa Asia Media Library places at the disposal of these centres its collection that includes books, music, films and documentaries, except the material excluded from lending.
Users can borrow:
| Kind of material | Amount | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Books | 20 | 60 days |
| CD / CD-ROM | 10 | 60 days |
| DVD / VHS | 10 | 60 days |
The loss or deterioration of documents must be reestablished with the acquisition of a new copy of the same document or paying the price of the copy. Until this happens, the users lending service will be blocked.
Collective lending provides the option to create individual profiles or personal spaces, to self-manage loans, reservations, check your reading history, save favorite searches, among other actions. If you want to start your session accessed from here.
In order to use this service it is necessary to fill an application with the information of the centre, its person in charge, as well as authorized people to take the material. This application can be sent by e-mail or handed in personally at Casa Asia Media Library.
Consult the rules of the service of collective lending
Download the application of the Barcelona Media Library
Inter Librarian Lending
Can't find what you're looking for? We will order it for you in another library
Casa Asia Media Library offers its users the possibility to ask other libraries for documents not in its collection, whose theme is specialized in the Asia-Pacific region, with the exception of the copies excluded from loan.
In order to request an inter-library lending, you must go to the reception desk of the Media Library and order the material. The fees are those established according to the rules of REBIUN (Network of University Libraries):
- Every original lent copy: 8,00 €
- Scanned (PDF) or photocopied pages: 5 € per copy (article, chapter, etc.) of up to 40 pages (1 € per block of 10 additional copies)*
*Only the reproduction of up to 20% of each monograph is allowed. In the case of articles or periodical publications, this limit could be higher, only if the copied material is part of the same article.
The time of delivery of the requested material depends on the supplying centre. When the document is received, the applicant will be noticed by e-mail or telephone so they can come and collect it at the Media Library. If in the course of a week, the inter-library loan has not been collected, the Media Library will not return the fee priorly paid and the use will be excluded from this service for future requests.
Consult the complete information about the service of inter-library lending
Can't come? Your library can order it for you
The inter-librarian lending is a service addresed to other libraries, documentation centres or institutions to accede to material that is not in their libraries.
All the material can be lent, except reference works, reserved documents, magazines and books that have the identification excluded from lending.
The following can be lent:
| Kind of material | Amount | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Books | 4 | 30 days |
| CD / CD-ROM | 4 | 30 days |
| DVD | 4 | 30 days |
| Lectures | 4 | 30 days |
| Alain Daniélou Legacy | 4 | 30 days |
*Documents can be renewed twice, as long as the material has not been reserved.
Before making a request, the library must check that the document is in the collection of the Media Library, priorly consulted:
- Catalogue of Casa Asia Media Library
- On the telephone or by e-mail: Barcelona Media Library: 93 368 07 38 / mediateca.bcn@casaasia.es
To make a request please fill in the following form:
Inter Librarian lending application
The fees of the inter librarian service according to the rules of REBIUN (Network of University Libraries) are the following:
- Every original lent copy: 8,00 €
- Copies*: 5 € per article up to 40 copies (1 € per block of 10 additional copies)
*Only the reproduction of up to 20% of each monograph is allowed. In the case of articles or periodical publications, this limit could be higher, only if the copied material is part of the same article.
At the end of the year, every institution will be charged in a unique invoice, all the inter librarian lending. The time of delivery of the requested material will depend on its situation when the lending requestment is made.
The requesting library will be in charge of the repairing fees, in case of deterioration or loss of lent material, as well as the person in charge of the suitable return of the material.
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