History
The University Library was officially established by an agreement of the University of San Fernando's governing body in 1817. Its collection was built through successive purchases and donations until 1835, when, as a consequence of Mendizábal's ecclesiastical confiscations, the bibliographic holdings of the convents were integrated into the so-called Provincial Libraries. Thus, in 1838, the University Library also became a Provincial Library, and, when the University of San Fernando was dissolved years later and the Institute of the Canary Islands was created, it became known as the Provincial Library and Library of the Institute of the Canary Islands.
Since the suppression of the University of San Fernando in 1845, the leading figures of Tenerife never ceased to consider the possibility of its reestablishment, which was finally achieved with the royal decree of September 21, 1927, creating the 12th university district in La Laguna. With the institution re-established, the University's bibliographic collection began to take shape in the Jesuit building (now the Economic Society), while the original university collection and the collection from the convents suppressed by the Mendizábal confiscations were maintained and expanded in the former Augustinian building and later in the Canary Islands Institute.
In 1954, the University acquired its own building and dedicated a two-story pavilion to the Library. It was at this time that the two previously separate collections—that of the Institute of the Canary Islands and that of the University—could be brought together in one place. Two years later, it was decided to separate the works of Canarian authors, as well as those on topics related to the Archipelago or published in the Islands, from the rest of the collection, thus forming the Library of the Canary Islands.
Junto a la Biblioteca General, aparecen las bibliotecas de Facultades o Escuelas y en los años siguientes se realizará una labor de reorganización y reestructuración de los fondos hasta entonces dispersos en pequeñas colecciones departamentales, hasta conseguir llegar a la situación actual donde la Biblioteca Universitaria se organiza en una red de 14 bibliotecas que afrontan el reto de la modernización en su gestión y en sus servicios al usuario.
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Antón Martínez, Beatriz; Martínez Ortega, Ricardo: “The words to translate Salustio by José de Acosta.” Fortunatae 5 (1993), p. 185-192
Bonnet y Reverón, B..: “The Pearl of our Provincial Library: a codex from the Middle Ages”. Revista de Historia (1926), pp. 74-76.
Conquest of the Island of Gran Canaria: (Chronicle of Lacunae) presentation and transcription by Pedro Schlueter Caballero; preliminary study by Elias Serra Ráfols. Las Palmas: Museo Canario, 1976
Fernández Palomeque, Paz; Morales Ayala, Mª Luisa: “The Rare Book Collection of the University Library of La Laguna”. Canales de Comunicación: Revista de la Asociación de Antiguos Alumnos y Amigos de la Universidad de La Laguna, nº 2 (Oct. 2004)
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The Book of Hours of the University of La Laguna [folder of 13 plates] / [texts by Carlos Bruneto et al.]. La Laguna University, 1998
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Pizarroso, Carlos: “Some incunabula from the Provincial Library of the Canary Islands”. Revista de Canarias, I (1878-79), pp. 307-310
Pizarroso, Carlos: “The Library of La Laguna: something about codices”. Revista de Canarias, I (1878-79), p. 259-261
Pizarroso, Carlos: “New curiosities of the Library of La Laguna”. Revista de Canarias (1880), pp. 216-218
Rabadé Navarro, MA: “The Old Collection of the University Library of La Laguna (BULL): Latin humanistic works of the 16th century: rhetoric and sacred oratory”. Fortunatae 8 (1996), p. 379-387
Roca Alama, Mª J.: “Plinio the Younger in the preliminaries to the Stadium Solis by Fray Andrés de Abreu.” Fortunatae, 2 (1991), p. 287-295
Samsó, J.: “A perpetual calendar in “The Book of Hours” preserved in the Library of the University of La Laguna”, Revista de Historia, 170 (1973 – 1976), pp. 125-131
University of La Laguna. Library: Catalogue of Centenary Works Existing in the University Library. La Laguna: University, 1962
University of La Laguna. Library: Catalogue of theses in the General Library. La Laguna: University, 1996
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