La génesis de las bibliotecas universitarias en España

Abstract

An analysis of the university in Spain is made in its transition from the “Ancien Régime” to the liberal society, stressing the aims the reformers sought to obtain and the coexisting problems they encountered. After characterizing the higher education centers, an analysis of the university library is made: its previous development up until the first third of the XIX Century; the consolidation of its holdings after integrating the documents had by the suppressed religious communities (the Jesuits); its double character as library and public education center; and its main problems and the possible service it lent to the cultural and scientific development of the country.