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Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas

network of academic libraries in Spain

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Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ20655589 ↗
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The Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas (REBIUN; English: University Libraries Network) facilitates cooperation among academic libraries in Spain. It formed in 1988, and in 1996 absorbed the Conferencia de Directores de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Científicas Españolas (COBIDUCE). Since 1998 it represents library interests in the Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas.

History

Founding membership of REBIUN consisted of libraries of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad de Cantabria, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Universidad de Oviedo, Universidad del País Vasco, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and Universidad de Sevilla.

See also

List of libraries in Spain

List of library consortia

References

Further reading

Pilar Alcalá Cortijo (1993), "La red de bibliotecas universitarias REBIUN: una respuesta cooperativa de las bibliotecas universitarias", Homenaje a Daría Villanueva (in Spanish), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, ISBN 84-7191-937-0

José Antonio Merlo Vega (1999). "La cooperación en las bibliotecas universitarias: fundamentos y redes cooperativas". Boletín de la Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios (in Spanish) (54). hdl:10366/18000. ISSN 0213-6333.

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This entry incorporates text from “Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.