Presentation of the SCDBU

Missions

The Joint Documentation and University Libraries Service (SCDBU) is responsible for coordinating documentation services within the university.

Composition

The SCDBU includes:

• digital documentation (catalogues, electronic journals, databases, encyclopedias) accessible to all members of the university community on the internet
• the three university libraries (BU) of Jacob-Bellecombette, Bourget-du-Lac, and Annecy-le-Vieux
• about ten associated libraries, in the university's departments and laboratories

Activities

The SCDBU contributes to the university's training and research activities.

In particular, he performs the following duties:

1° Implement the university's documentation policy, coordinate the corresponding resources, and evaluate the services offered to users;

2° Welcome users and staff working at the university, as well as any other members of the public under conditions specified by the university's board of directors, and organize workspaces and consultation areas;

3° Acquire, report, manage, and communicate documents and information resources on any medium;

4° Develop digital documentary resources, contribute to their production, and promote their use; participate in the development of scientific and technical information, in particular through the production, cataloging, and dissemination of digital documents;

5° Participate, for the benefit of users, in research on these various resources as well as in the university's cultural, scientific, and technical activities;

6° Promote, through documentation and the adaptation of services, any initiative in the field of initial and continuing training and research;

7° Cooperate with libraries that share the same objectives, regardless of their status, in particular by participating in union catalogs;

8° Train users to make the widest possible use of new techniques for accessing scientific and technical information.