Biblioteca

IAC Library: a view of the shelves in the reading room

Located at IAC headquarters, the library offers its services to IAC staff and authorized visitors who can access 24 hours a day. It also serves external libraries who need documents of our collections. The specialized collections in Astrophysics and related sciences contains: over 13.000 books  (monographs, conference proceedings, reports, etc.), 360 journals (~100 current) and observatory and astronomical institution publications.
Library staff is available from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm (16/09- 14/06) and from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm (15/06-15/09).

We invite IAC Personnel and visitors to read the LIBRARY USER'S GUIDE and the LIBRARY RULES to discover the services we offer and the rules for a good use of the library.

IAC Library Catalogue

By clicking on "Search in our Online Catalogue", you will  be able to search our online catalogue that contains the bibliographic records of all the books and scientific journals in our library collections.  IAC personnel and visitors  will also be able to access the featured online resourses such as Standards, Online journals, Ebooks collections, Bibliographic Databases, etc.

Featured Online Resources

Interlibrary loan service

External libraries may send to IAC library interlibrary loan requests using the “Contact” option to send a message.

IAC users who need documents (books, jorunals, articles, etc.) that are not in our collections can request them filling in this form or contacting library staff.

Library Committee

A Library Committee oversees the expenditure on bibliography, advises on  development of books and journals collections, and proposes changes and improvements in Library activities for a better service to users. Its members are: