The documentary collections consists of books and documents on the following subjects: Geology, Palaeontology, Mineralogy, Nature, Biodiversity, Zoology (especially Malacology and Entomology), Ethology, Bioacoustics, Taxidermy, Museology and Museography. The documentary collection on botany, located at the Institut Botànic de Barcelona, is managed jointly with the CSIC.
The Documentation Centre belongs to the CSIC Network of Libraries in the category of “associate library”. You can find the documentary collections of the Library and Media Library, as well as those of other libraries nationwide that are specialised in our disciplines, in CSIC bibliographic catalogue. Our documents are coded there under the heading B-CienNat. The ones in the Media Library are differentiated by the code MED.
The documents of the Library and the Archive of the Botanical Institute of Barcelona, which are also part of the CSIC network, have the code B-IBB. The part with the most patrimonial value is formed by the documents of the Library and the ‘Archive of the Salvador Family.
Documentary resources of the Library
- Monographs: 16.459
- Journals: 1.717
- Maps: 1.206
- Audiovisuals: 1.531
- Special collections: 1.317 titles of naturalist subjects from the 18th and 19th centuries
Documentary resources of the Historical Archive
- 318 archive boxes
- 2.674 dossiers
Documentary resources of the Photographic Archive
- The photography archive contains 15,000 units