The ICAC’s Documentation Centre and Library has a collection of more than 124,000 items. They are divided into three large areas: bibliographic (20%), archival (27%) and audiovisual (53%).
They include five singular legacies: the Dr Pere de Palol (†) bequest, the personal archive’s Dr Jordi López Vilar, Dr Antonio Peña Jurado (†) library, Dr Simon Keay (†) library and the Dr Gustav A. Gamer library and photographic bequest.
Objectives
- To provide bibliographic support for the different lines of research and to act as a reference point for researchers.
- To manage and maintain the Institute’s internal documental archive.
- To hold the scientific information generated by the researchers.
- To safeguard the bibliographic legacies.
- To cooperate with the libraries of other institutions specialising in archaeology and to establish bibliographic exchange systems.
- To disseminate its publications among the main national and international distributors.