Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Unit (GLAM)
The Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Unit (GLAM) of the University of Bergamo offers library, archive and museum services to support the University's core missions of education, research, and knowledge dissemination.
The unit manages a wide range of resources, services and activities and adopts innovative and sustainable approaches to best support learning and research. It works to enhance skills and promote initiatives aimed at the university community and the general public.
It is organised into four services, each with specific responsabilities.
- Reviewing and updating university policies on open access and management of research products;
- Managing the institutional research repository, Aisberg;
- Supporting the management of researchers' profiles in Aisberg and on their personal university page (scientific CV and PIDs);
- Centralized management of university affiliations in bibliographic databases;
- Support simulations for National Scientific Habilitation (ASN);
- Providing advice on the assignment of economic rights to publishers, transformative agreements, and licensing
- Managing transformative agreements and monitoring article processing charges (APCs) for open access publications.;
- Collaborating with the Planning and evaluation service to optimize data flow in relation to the university's presence in international rankings;
- Developing editorial policies for the management of publications and profiles of open access journals under the University of Bergamo's publishing brand;
- Implementing and managing a unified university platform;
- Providing training on institutional archiving, evaluation procedures, research outputs, choosing publishing venues, copyright management, and open access;
- Producing documentation and organizing seminars on open science for both specialized and general audiences.
- Reviewing and monitoring print and electronic collections;
- Acquiring new monographs and periodicals;
- Cataloguing resources in accordance with Italian and international standards;
- Cataloguing and managing masters’s theses.
- Managing study rooms and coordinating external staff;
- Managing the arrangement of printed materials on open shelves and in storage;
- Managing lending services and coordinating external staff;
- Managing interlibrary services for users and libraries;
- Providing bibliographic advisory services;
- Training users in the use of library tools and services;
- Managing user communications, the library website.
- Creating inventories of and managing historical archival collections and personal papers;
- Creating inventories of and curating the University's historical and artistic assets;
- Managing digitisation projects involving archival, historical, and artistic heritage;
- Organising cultural activities for internal and external audiences.