Dolors Lamarca

Dolors Lamarca
Dolors Marca, wearing red glasses and a greyish coat, listens intently to someone speaking off-screen.
Dolors Lamarca
Born (1943-10-19) 19 October 1943 (age 81)
Granollers, Catalonia, Spain
EducationUniversity of Barcelona
Occupation(s)Librarian, philologist
SpouseAntoni Comas i Pujol (d. 1981)
Children3

Dolors Lamarca y Morell (Granollers, Vallès Oriental, 19 October 1943) is a Catalan librarian and philologist. She has led the Service of Libraries and Bibliographic Heritage of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and has directed the National Library of Catalonia. Widow of Antoni Comas i Pujol, with whom she had three daughters.[1]

Biography

Lamarca studied Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona, and library science at the School of Bibliology. On November 5, 1974, she joined the faculty of Archivers, Librarians and Archaeologists (Library Section) at the University of Barcelona.[citation needed]

She led the "Library and Bibliographic Heritage Service" of the Generalitat de Catalunya from August 1, 1980, until March 2, 1983. During these years she established the foundations of the current Catalan library system, adapting cataloging regulations through the Catalan Institute of Bibliography and opening new libraries to provide more service to the public. Later, she was director of the Library of the University of Barcelona (1984-2000), achieving important milestones at the head of this network of libraries, such as the modernization of structures and buildings, adding full computerization.[2]

On February 12, 2004, she became director of the National Library of Catalonia, a position she held until June 2012.[3] During these seven years she managed a fund of great bibliographic and documentary value made up of more than three million documents in different types of media. In an era where the information society is so important, the Library launched different digitization projects of its heritage fund to allow heritage diffusion at a global level for the Library of Catalonia,[4] and of everything that is published in Catalonia, thus preserving all of its contents at the same time. Under the motto "open, reliable and useful", she modernized the BC by purchasing new equipment, improving internal processes. Under his direction, numerous musical, literary or graphic heritage funds were acquired.[5]

Selected works

  • Albéniz, Isaac; Granados, Enric; Lamarca, Dolors (2010). Azulejos (in Catalan). Barcelona: Biblioteca de Catalunya : Museu de la Música. ISMN 9790901314849.
  • Lamarca, Dolors; Serra Aranda, Eugènia (2007). "Deu pinzellades de la història recent de la Biblioteca de Catalunya (1993-2007)" [Ten sketches of the recent history of the Library of Catalonia (1993-2007)] (PDF). Item. Revista de biblioteconomia i documentació. Ejemplar (in Catalan) (46): 35–51. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

References

  1. ^ "Personatges illustres del Maresme" [Illustrious characters of the Maresme]. Issuu (in Catalan). 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  2. ^ "Amb criteri propi. Dolors Lamarca, directora de la Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya". Journal of Librarianship and Documentation (in Catalan). 48. Item. Revista de biblioteconomia i documentació.: 102–106 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
  3. ^ M.S (24 November 2011). "Cultura cessa Dolors Lamarca al capdavant de la Biblioteca de Catalunya" [Culture ceases Dolors Lamarca at the head of the Library of Catalonia] (in Catalan). Vilaweb. Retrieved April 24, 2022.
  4. ^ "Managing low-cost digitization projects in least developed countries and small island developing states: a manual". unesdoc.unesco.org. 2021. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  5. ^ Anglada, Lluís (22 October 2012). Bdig (biblioteques digitals i cooperació) (ed.). "En la Jubilació de Dolors Lamarca" [On the Retirement of Dolors Lamarca] (in Catalan). Retrieved 24 March 2016.