Austral University Libraries includes five libraries which are located on its different campuses: Facultades library, IAE Business School library and Health Sciences library (Pilar, Buenos Aires province), Baires library (Buenos Aires City) and Rosario library (Sante Fe province).  Our Libraries’ mission is to provide constant support, service and guidance for teaching, research and study activities, covering the information needs of faculty, researchers, students, alumni and the learning community. The libraries are divided in different reading and silent study rooms. The collections are open and available to everyone in the university and its shelves are identified by the different faculty colours; this as an easy way for the library users to identify the topics of information they´re looking for. Due to its great heritage importance, the libraries have under their guard the special collections of José María Ruda -a distinguished international jurist-, the personal collection of the archaeologist Julian Caceres Freyre, the photographic archives of Jehan Vellard and Prof. Echauri’s philosophy and aesthetics collection. 

University of São Paulo

The USP Agency for Academic Information Management (AGUIA) is the University of São Paulo’s agency responsible for aligning the management of information, intellectual production and libraries with the institution’s strategic objectives.

The Agency continues the activities previously developed by the Integrated Library System (SIBiUSP), while at the same time incorporating new fronts and expanding its scope of action.

AGUIA’s mission is to promote science and open access, the generation and use of information, contributing to the development of society, excellence in teaching, research and extension in all areas of knowledge. This promotion takes place through specialized assistance, administration, dissemination and preservation of registered knowledge.

The Libraries that make up the Agency offer services and products essential to the constant training and updating of students, faculty and non-teaching staff, in addition to the public outside USP. Offering environments conducive to study, learning and research, the Libraries maintain high quality printed collections, facilitate the access and use of digital content, guide undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, professors, employees and the general public.

York University Libraries (YUL) supports York’s diverse community as they engage in purposeful research that advances knowledge and creates positive change. YUL is comprised of libraries located on York’s main campus in Toronto – including Steacie Science and Engineering Library and Bronfman Business Library – as well as branches on our bilingual Glendon campus, La Casita Azul on our eco-campus in Costa Rica, and soon our new Markham Centre Campus (opening in 2022).

YUL is recognized for rich historical and community-engaged archives and special collections, progressive services for accessibility, innovative technologies, and robust services in support of research and open scholarship. Through its three primary divisions – Digital Engagement and Strategy, Research and Open Scholarship, and Teaching and Learning – YUL provides campus leadership on open access, open education, open data, and other scholarly communication priorities. YUL is also home to the institutional repository YorkSpace, a platform that enables York community members to organize and preserve their research online and showcases the scholarship of the York community.

The Open Campus Libraries and Information Services (OCLIS) supports and enhances the learning, teaching and research activities of the Open Campus community of the University of the West Indies. The OCLIS provides a range of online and onsite resources and services to both students and staff pursuing studies and research online and face-to-face. The OCLIS has several small to medium size libraries located at Open Campus Country Sites (OCCS) throughout the English-speaking Caribbean engaged in a wide range of activities including full circulation services and research and reference support.

The libraries system of the University of Andrés Bello, certified under the ISO Norm 9001:2015, has as it´s mission to satisfy the information needs and encourage the integral growth of the university’s community through it´s innovative and quality services contributing to facilitate continuous learning and investigation through knowledge management. 

It consists of 9 libraries distributed in the campuses of Santiago, Viña del Mar and Concepcion. At the moment, the bibliographic collection has 471,451 volumes and 154,158 titles. 

It counts with a Virtual Library in which the users can have remote access to obtain information from different resources, services and online tools, allows them to access the online catalog from the physical resources available. Also provides them with access to electronic resources distributed in various areas of knowledge, the opportunity to register online to attend library workshops, the interaction through social media to maintain constant communication, the access to the digital resources and the connection to the Academic Institutional Repository (RIA).

The UC Chile Libraries are an integrated system of services and information resources comprising ten libraries distributed across all UC campuses and the Dr. Sótero del Río Hospital. Its collection is one of the most important in Chile. It consists of 1.3 million printed volumes and more than 400 thousand titles in the electronic compilation. The Escolar Futuro Library is also a part of this system. This program supports the learning process of children and teenagers through the creation of school libraries and the generation of spaces where cultural and academic activities take place.

The library of the University of the Andes was born within the framework of the foundation of the University in 1948. It began its work in parallel with it, as a complement to the university system. The services provided by the Library System is focused on maintaining user satisfaction, with dynamic services aimed at continuous improvement of processes and focused on all interested parties as the main axis and objective of its work. Its mission is to provide innovative, relevant and quality information resources and services that serve as support for the development of academic, research and knowledge creation processes, articulated with the social and civic responsibility of the Universidad de los Andes.

The Sistema de Bibliotecas, Documentación e Información [(SIBDI), Libraries System, Documentation and Information] was founded on August 26, 1946. It consists of twenty seven libraries, located in seven campus locations at Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), across the country.

SIBDI supports a vast number of programs related to education, research, social action and management through the acquisition, organization, archival, access and effective recovery of data resources, as well by providing a high quality service offer that is up to date with the latest technologies and teaching approaches that aim to encourage the creativity and scientific research, and to promote the acquisition and transfer of knowledge.

Users have access to a large range of bibliographical resources in different formats, in many disciplines that cover the academic offers of the Universidad de Costa Rica.

The library of the University San Francisco of Quito-USFQ is open and available to the USFQ community and the general public. It has a selected and updated collection of books in all the areas of knowledge, subscriptions to the most important scientific and technical journals and an extensive collection of audiovisual and multimedia materials. The library has almost 200,000 printed books and access to approximately 1,000,000 ebooks in full text. Also, it has hundreds of millions of scientific and academic articles through our 50 data bases and virtual libraries. We have four libraries to fulfill our community´s needs: The General Library, The Library of Medicine, The Hayek Library and the GAIAS Library in our Galapagos Campus located in the Isle of San Cristobal.

The Tecnológico de Monterrey Library integrates a system made up of 46 Library precincts on several campuses across the country in México and a national office. The library system operates under a collaboration model that allows integrating a network of library services that serves three educational levels: high school, undergraduate, postgraduate, and research.

The library in campus Monterrey was awarded winner of the 2018 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award for an Academic Library (www.iida.org/content.cfm/2018-library-interior-design-award-winners)

Tecnológico de Monterrey  is number one private university in Mexico founded in 1943, ranked among the top 200 universities in the world in the  QS World University Ranking ® 2021 (www.topuniversities.com/universities/tecnologico-de-monterrey). Rated five QS stars,  achieved full marks in the categories of internationalization, innovation, employability, facilities, and specialist criteria.

Our academic programs are accredited by international accreditation agencies such as SACS – Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, CACEI – Council for Accreditation of Engineering Education, ABET – Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, CACECA – Accreditation Council on the Teaching of Accounting and Administration, AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, among others.

Welcome to the Oficina Universitaria de Biblioteca (OUBI), it´s the support organ that has as it´s mission to provide true information of a high scientific rigor in the scope of Health Sciences and related areas contributing to the process of teaching, learning, investigating and social responsibility. Offering products and services both in print and digital support to our scientific and university community making use of the updated and relevant information technologies and communication of scientific information according to the demands of our academic community. 

The University of Miami Libraries (UML) ranks among the top research libraries in North America with a collection of over 4 million volumes and over 135,000 current serial subscriptions. UML’s mission is to provide faculty, students, researchers, and staff with the highest quality access to collections, information services, learning support, and digital expertise in support of the University’s mission to transform lives. The UM Libraries provides support and services for approximately 11,500 undergraduates, 6,500 graduate students, and 17,000 faculty and staff. UML currently encompasses six locations with varying subject specializations spread across the University’s three campuses in Coral Gables, the Health District in downtown Miami, and Virginia Key: Otto G. Richter Library (interdisciplinary); Architecture Research Center; Judi Prokop Newman Information Resource Center (business); Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library; Louis Calder Memorial Library (health sciences); and the Rosenstiel Marine and Atmospheric Science Library.