BIBac Project
The BIBac project was born from the initiative of co-working between the Vice-rectorships of Inclusion, Sustainability and Sports (through the Disability Support Unit) and the Vice-rectorate of Research of the UMH (through the LIBRARY Service), and thanks to the invaluable support of the Francisco Carreño Chair.
The main objective of this project is to provide accessibility, through the Library Service, to all those people with functional diversity, whether they are members of the university community or not, making all the available resources available to them.
The target population of BIBac is the university community of the UMH, although it is also open to the entire population of the city of Elche, being the Miguel Hernández University, through the Library, the one that serves this sector of the population.
With this project, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche aims to improve the level of educational quality of its students and facilitate accessibility to all those with visual, hearing, physical and even cognitive disabilities by also improving the signage of the Library spaces.
In order to use this service, it is necessary to have an official certificate of functional diversity of 33% or more.
Services for users with functional diversity "BIBAC"
The library offers its users with functional diversity a personalised "BIBAC" service in order to facilitate access to and use of the resources available.
Members of our university community, as well as external users, are entitled to these special services, except in this case the loan service.
Locating and delivering documents:
If the user cannot access the general room of our libraries or cannot search for the document themselves, library staff will provide them with the document and facilitate access. Library staff will also carry out searches and consult the relevant resources if the user is unable to do so. If the user has a guide dog with him/her, he/she may enter the room with it.
Book lending
- -Extension of the home loan: For those students of the Miguel Hernández University with functional diversity who can prove it, the duration of the "Long Loan" will be extended up to double (15 days for long loan and 7 days for short loan) of the allowed in the Loan Regulations and they will be able to take a total of 7 books.
- -Remote lending: For users with severe motor disabilities, mobility difficulties and long hospital stays (duly accredited), it will be possible to request the loan by telephone or via the web and for another person, duly authorised (print and fill in the authorisation form), to collect or deliver the loaned documents or to send them by post or other alternative means.
- -Intercampus Loan: For those students with functional diversity who can prove it, the Intercampus loan service is offered, which allows to speed up the home loan of books between the different campuses of the UMH without the need for the user to travel to obtain them. Inter-campus loans are only allowed between libraries on different campuses. An authorised person may come to collect the documents on behalf of the student.
- -Home lending of laptops: For those students with functional disabilities who can prove it, we offer a 15-day loan service for laptops with the following software: Windows zoom magnifier, Windows voice reading, NVDA, head mouse (Point-N-Click virtual mouse by Polital enterprises), enable viacam, mouse emulator via webcam. (crea-si.com
- -Interlibrary Loan: Duly accredited undergraduate students with functional diversity will have access to interlibrary loan under the same conditions as those established for all students who are carrying out their Final Degree Project (TFG). An authorised person may come to collect the documents on behalf of the student.
- -TV magnifying glass LVI Intercampus Loan: It is a magnifying glass, if it is requested by a visually impaired user who is on another campus, it can be sent to them and in less than 24 hours they will have it for their use in that campus library.
- -Reservations and renewals: Bookings and renewals can be made on our blog via loan renewal, by phone or in person.
Spaces:
The UMH library has the following spaces for people with functional diversity:
- - "Preferential" reading and consultation posts: the library on its five campuses has a study station in the general room with a height-adjustable table for wheelchair access.
- -Adapted cabins: The Elche campus library has one group work booth for people with physical and sensory disabilities, without the restriction of maximum advance notice of one day (as long as it is not occupied), for support classes or any other necessary use. The location of this cabin is in the library of the campus of elche 2nd floor Altabix building. (Consult the protocol of access to the cabins).
The library offers its users with functional diversity a personalised "BIBAC" service in order to facilitate access to and use of the resources available.
Members of our university community, as well as external users, are entitled to these special services, except in this case the loan service.
Service in the hall
- -Document Tracing and Delivery Service: If the user cannot access the general room of our libraries or cannot search for the document themselves, library staff will provide them with the document and facilitate access. Library staff will also carry out searches and consult the relevant resources if the user is unable to do so. If the user has a guide dog with him/her, he/she may enter the room with it.
- -Availability of the material at any of the 5 UMH campuses upon request to the library.
Loan Service
- -Extension of the home loan: For those students of the Miguel Hernández University with functional diversity who can prove it, the duration of the "Long Loan" will be extended up to double (15 days for long loan and 7 days for short loan) of the allowed in the Loan Regulations and they will be able to take a total of 7 books.
- -Remote lending: For users with severe motor disabilities, mobility difficulties and long hospital stays (duly accredited), it will be possible to request the loan by telephone or via the web and for another person, duly authorised (print and fill in the authorisation form), to collect or deliver the loaned documents or to send them by post or other alternative means.
- -Intercampus Loan: For those students with functional diversity who can prove it, the Intercampus loan service is offered, which allows to speed up the home loan of books between the different campuses of the UMH without the need for the user to travel to obtain them. Inter-campus loans are only allowed between libraries on different campuses. An authorised person may come to collect the documents on behalf of the student.
- -Laptop lending at home: For those students with functional disabilities who can prove it, we offer a 15-day loan service for laptops with the following software: Windows zoom magnifier, Windows voice reading, NVDA, head mouse (Point-N-Click virtual mouse by Polital enterprises), enable viacam, mouse emulator via webcam (crea-si.com).
- -Interlibrary Loan: Duly accredited undergraduate students with functional diversity will have access to interlibrary loan under the same conditions as those established for all students who are carrying out their Final Degree Project (TFG). An authorised person may come to collect the documents on behalf of the student.
- -TV magnifying glass LVI Intercampus Loan: It is a magnifying glass, if it is requested by a visually impaired user who is on another campus, it can be sent to them and in less than 24 hours they will have it for their use in that campus library.
- -Bookings and renewals: Bookings and renewals can be made on our blog through loan renewal, by phone or in person.
Personalised bibliographic information service: can be made through our reference service at the counter, by telephone and on-line.
Spaces:
The UMH library has the following spaces for people with functional diversity:
- -"Preferential" reading and consultation posts: the library on its five campuses has a study station in the general room with a height-adjustable table for wheelchair access.
- -Adapted cabins: The Elche campus library has a group work booth for people with physical and sensory disabilities, without the restriction of maximum advance notice of one day (as long as it is not occupied), for support classes or any other necessary use. The location of this cabin is in the library of the campus of elche 2nd floor Altabix building. (Consult the protocol of access to the cabins).
- -Adapted post with computer equipment : The library on its five campuses has a study post adapted for people with functional diversity. Each of these stations is equipped with a computer with a scanner and specific technical aids for each type of functional diversity.
- The adapted study station is equipped with:
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- Physical Diversity
- Height adjustable tables
- Keyboard housing to facilitate keystrokes
- Ergonomic ball mouse
- Dragon Naturally Speaking, voice recognition software.
- Visual Diversity
- Screen reader Jaws 9.0
- Screen magnifier Zoomtext 9.1, character enlargement software that allows you to view texts, drawings, etc. at the required size through virtual magnifying glasses.
- TV magnifying glass XTEND
- A braille printer Portathiel
- Text converter Quick Braille V1.2 CR-R
- Physical Diversity
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- The adapted study station is equipped with:
Training:
The library offers the possibility of tailor-made courses to suit both the user's IT needs and personal situation. Consult e-mail.
