On 6 November, Miguel Hernández University will host the 2nd BUVAL Libraries Meeting in the Valona Building on the Elche campus. The event, organised by the UMH Library Service, will bring together the five public universities in the Valencian Community to review their joint work and plan new collaborative initiatives.

The day will begin with an official opening address by Ángel Antonio Carbonell Barrachina (Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer at the UMH), Isabel Fariñas Gómez (Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Valencia and Chair of the BUVAL consortium) and Encarnación Rodríguez Navarro (Director of the UMH Library Service).

Highlights of the event include:

• Keynote speech: Alejandro Gadea (University of Valencia) will present BUVAL’s perspective on the CRUE 2026 transformative agreements, covering issues relating to consumption, management and prospects for negotiation.
• Specialised working groups: Meetings will be held focusing on various key areas such as Acquisitions, Open Science, Interlibrary Loans, Web and Communication, Artificial Intelligence applied to library services, and Collection Management and Preservation Systems.

With this second edition, the BUVAL consortium is reinforcing its commitment to promoting the exchange of knowledge and optimising the services provided to the university community throughout the Valencian Community.