Abstract

OLAGUE DE ROS, Guillermo. An approach to the history of scientific documentation in Catalonia: the activity of María Serrallach Juliá (1905-1992) in the Seminary of Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (1937-1984). Dynamis [online]. 2014, vol.34, n.1, pp.147-168. ISSN 2340-7948.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-95362014000100008.

This article contributes a study of Maria Serrallach Juliá (1905-1992), one of the first specialised librarians in Spain. Between 1937 and 1975, she directed the Seminary of Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (initials in Spanish, SQUB), the name given to the space that resulted from the merger of the libraries of the Faculties of Pharmacy and Chemistry of the University. Serrallach turned the SQUB into a modern scientific documentation centre offering services that were practically non-existent in the rest of Spain. The publications and educational activity of Serrallach are also analysed. The history of the SQUB is studied until 1984, when SQUB was transformed into the Library of the Faculties of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Barcelona.

Keywords : history of scientific information; Spain; 20th Century; Catalonia; Seminar of Chemistry; University of Barcelona; María Serrallach Juliá.

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