Welcome to the Library 

       UMET’s Library is proud to provide to it’s patrons a valuable collection of printed, audiovisual and electronic resources, which will complement classroom learning experiences, will provide information (data) related to academic and technical needs or to meet a particular personal interest. 

      A group of competent librarians is always waiting to help you succeed in your academic experience.  Our actual facilities include service and sitting areas for individual or study groups and for people with special needs.  In a near future our services will be rendered in our modern and comfortable facilities, at the second floor of the Jesús T. Piñero Building.

     Through the Public Online Catalog you will be able to access a numerous collection of information resources, available in UMET as well as in UNE and UT.  A highly standard telecommunication infrastructure provides access to the Internet as well as to other specialized databases.  

     Our aim is to offer a quality service and to serve as support agents complying with all your information needs.

  Location

   The Library is located in the second floor of the Jesús T. Piñero building.  There are facilities for individual work or study groups.  

   Collections and Services

    Reference Room:  Is a sitting study area where you can locate and use either printed or electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, yearbooks, directories and atlas among other resources.  A vertical file is available where you might locate information from informal publications.  All these materials are to be used within the Library facilities (premises).

    Reserve Collection:  In this area Faculty Members allocate educational material and information resources selected either from general collection of from their personal collections.  This material is posted and reserved to be used by specific groups of users for a limited academic term and for a two (2) hours period. Fines are charged to patrons not returning materials on time.

    Circulation Services:  This area includes resources that may be borrowed to use in or outside the Library premises.  Specific conditions are established by user groups and loans periods vary from fifteen (15) to thirty (30) days.

    Periodical Publications Room:  A sitting study area where you might locate serials, newspapers, bulletins, electronic and online resources.  All but online materials are to be used within the Library premises.

    User Instruction Program:  Consists of a series of activities programmed in order to support student development regarding Information Literacy Skills.  Organized in levels, the program provides the opportunity to improve information management skills that will enhance the production of academic work or tasks.  In collaboration with Faculty members, a graduate Librarian set up a calendar for individual or group meetings.  The training curriculum includes: effective use of public catalog; retrieval information from several databases; effective research on the Internet; effective use of electronic mail, basic skills of Microsoft utilities and techniques for the development of monograph papers and bibliographies.

    Collection Development Unit:  Personnel in this area deals with the evaluation, selection, acquisition and physical preparation of all kind of resources to be incorporated into the general collection.  Periodic Reports on Collection Status are also prepared in this particular area.  In order to serve specific academic needs Faculty members examine commercial catalogs and recommend resources to be used in their or similar courses.

    Interlibrary Loan:  patrons needs for resources not available in our Campus or Additional Locations are met by Interlibrary Loan Services,  either among AGMUS Institutions or through reciprocal agreements with other local or foreign libraries.  This service is rendered from the Circulation Area.