FAQs
Access is free to anyone belonging to the ESMUC academic community and external visitors.
You can chek the current access contidions.
You can only drink water if it comes in a closed container.
During the academic year, service hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The schedule changes during the summer period.
No, it is closed on weekends.
The network’s name is Esmuc_Activitats. The password to access the Wi-Fi network is ESMUC2017. It also has a QR code to directly access the Wi-Fi network through mobile devices.
Yes, it is a network open to any user and visitor to the Library.
If you have lost your Library-CRAI card (either Alumni or external user), you will need to get a duplicate at the library counter by presenting your DNI, NIE or passport. The duplicate card has a cost of 2€ (payment by card).
No, if your Library card is blocked, you cannot borrow documents on loan.
No, both the ESMUC and Library-CRAI cards are personal and non-transferable.
The library staff offers its users advice and assistance in searching for information both inside and outside the Library-CRAI, as well as in the use of the equipment available to them. This service can be requested in three ways:
Information Desk: You can go to the Library-CRAI information desk during our opening hours, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Telephone: You can also ask questions or make suggestions by calling 93.352.30.11 – Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Web form: without time or calendar limitations.
For simple and short questions, you can also use the Library-CRAI’s WhatsApp.
To access the ESMUC premises it is necessary to validate the ESMUC card at the School’s entrance. Since external users do not have this card, it is necessary for them to go to the reception desk to be accredited and have the doors opened for them. No prior appointment is necessary.
It is not necessary to be a cardholder to consult the documents, but to borrow documents you will need to get a Library-CRAI card: ESMUC students, PAS and faculty, as well as Alumni and external individuals or institutions with a connection to the School or music, may apply for a card to use the loan service.
The rates are established by the ESMUC Board of Trustees (5 €, except in specific cases).
You must complete and seal the application for accesss to services.
Its duration is 4 years.
You will have to request a duplicate, which costs 2€.
If you have completed your studies at ESMUC, you must complete the folowing document and deliver it, signed and stamped, to the Library-CRAI (cost 0€): application for access to services.
Yes, if you are an Alumni and have a Library-CRAI card.
No. You can consult them, but you will not be able to borrow them.
You can borrow a maximum of 6 documents of any format, as long as they are available for loan (they do not have a red sticker on the spine).
The number of documents and loan days varies depending whether they are external users, or teachers and Administration and Service Staff (6 documents and 15 days for the first; 10 documents and 30 days for the latter).
The collection can be consulted through the bibliographic catalogue.
The bibliographic catalogue holds all the documents (books, magazines, scores, sound and video recordings) that you can find in the ESMUC Library-CRAI.
You can refer to the following link on how to find documents in the catalogue.
If you are a student, professor or Administration and Service Staff you can activate the copier with the ESMUC card.
If you are external ESMUC staff, you must go to the Library-CRAI loan desk in order to have a Reprography account created for you.
The card’s balance is topped up online with a credit card. You will find all the information in Online Top up.
The School has 6 high-capacity multifunctional copiers: 4 of them located in Library-CRAI (2nd floor), and in the corridors of the 2nd and 3rd floor. To be used by students, professors and Administration and Service Staff. 1 multifunctional copier located in the Academic Secretary’s Office (1st floor). For Administration and Service Staff use. 1 copier in the Reprography Service office (1st floor). For Administration and Service Staff use.
It is necessary to pass the ESMUC card through the machine’s card reader and select the option “Funciones del dispositivo.” If you are external staff and do not hold an ESMUC card, you can also do so with an account created by the Library-CRAI.
Print jobs can be sent from ESMUC computers, via web or e-mail. You will find manuals with detailed instructions in Reprography.
Yes, with some exceptions. ESMUC has a CEDRO license that allows scanning up to 10% of a book and an entire article, even if it exceeds 10% of a magazine or periodical publication. The license does not allow the scanning of musical scores.
No. ESMUC has a CEDRO license that allows you to photocopy 100% of musical scores, and up to 10% of a book and an entire article, even if it exceeds 10% of a magazine or periodical publication.
Through the topographic, which you can find by searching for the document in the catalogue.
Sorting by CDs, DVDs (according to types of recording content), musical scores (by type/instrument or training/composer) and books (subject and alphabetical sorting by author or title, if there is no author). You can look here for the Classification of the documents.
The interlibrary loan service aims to exchange and obtain documents between different libraries.
The current year’s issues can be found in the space available under the magazine display in the Library-Crai. Previous issues are on deposit. You can ask for them at the information desk (we go there every Monday afternoon).
1 penalty point for each document and delayed day. For external users and students, 18 blocking points means 15 days of loan restriction. For faculty and PAS, 30 penalty points mean 15 days of loan restriction.
By sending an email. The document must be music related.
There are documents excluded from borrowing (as indicated with a red sticker on the spine of the document).
All open access resources are accessible to everyone. In the case of those resources signed by the Library-CRAI, they are only accessible to users who are part of the ESMUC community. To sign in they must be authenticated with the ESMUC username and password.
External users will only be able to consult these resources at the ESMUC facilities, from the library-CRAI computers or from their own computer connected to the ESMUC Wi-Fi network.
All documents consulted must be deposited on the trolleys in the room.
No. You can make document reservations in person at the information desk, by phone or WhatsApp. You can reserve documents on loan, as well as available documents.
Yes. Requests for documents located in the warehouse are uploaded every Monday. Thus, all requests made between Monday and Friday afternoon will be available in the room the following Monday.
If it is on loan, you can make a reservation and when the document is returned, we will send you an email asking you to come and pick it up. If in addition to being on loan, it was already reserved, we could make another reservation and it would be in the reservation queue.
The reservation expires after 5 days.
Yes, from My account.
Another option is to renew from the self-checkout machine located in the library. For the first and second renewal it is not necessary to bring the borrowed document; but for the third renewal it is.
It can also be renewed by writing an email to biblioteca@esmuc.cat, calling us at 93.352.30.11 or through the Library-CRAI Whatsapp: (+34) 677.26.00.73.
If the document is reserved by another user, the renewal will not be possible.
Documents can be renewed twice. If you wish to renew a document a third time, or more, you must go to the information desk.
Yes, the self-checkout machine has document return option. There is a trolley next to the machine where you can leave your documents once you have passed them through the machine’s reader.
If the Library-CRAI is closed, in the return mailbox located next to the entrance door of the ESMUC.
Qualsevol. A excepció dels documents exclosos del servei de préstec (diccionaris i enciclopèdies, i tots aquells documents marcats amb un gomet vermell al llom).
If it is a small donation (few documents), they can be taken to the information desk. However, if it is a large donation, we need a brief inventory with identifying data of said documents in order to value them and apply the donation acceptance protocol.
We welcome CDs and DVDs recorded by the ESMUC community: students, alumni, faculty and PAS, provided there are no duplicates.
We also accept books and musical scores without duplicates and after the year 1980.
Anyone who wants to collaborate in the growth of the Library-CRAI collection and has any musical-themed document.