The Documentation Center has as its general goal to provide specialized information about the state-owned enterprise, as well as on the institutions which preceded SEPI.
It provides, both to the institution’s personnel and to the researchers and professionals from different fields free access - with a prior request- to a collection with a great documental value, which facilitates the knowledge about Spain’s industrial evolution during a large part of the 20th century.
Its goals are as follows:
- Managing the documental assets required for the performance of the organization’s activities, the development of the documental processes, and the handling and diffusion of the information.
- Providing the sources for the research and knowledge within the field of the state-owned enterprise and Spain’s industrial history, facilitating the access and diffusion of the information resources.
- Managing the institution’s library and journals collection, the access to the documentation, and its preservation.
Services of the Documentation Center
- Consult at the library facilities. The access to the historical collections (Library and Journals Collection) requires the prior request of the documents.
- General information and bibliographic orientation: searches of bibliographic information adjusted to the requests made.
- Interlibrary loans: loan of documents to other libraries in case that their state of preservation allows it.
- Consultation of the online catalogue: electronic access to the catalogue with the bibliographic references of the documents preserved in SEPI’s Library and Journals Collection.
Furthermore, at internal level there is a personal lending service, consults about information regarding different issues which are of interest to the company are answered, and the users are kept informed through a selective information diffusion service.
The resources of the Documentation Center
It has at its disposal a library and a journals collection specialized on the state-owned enterprise and privatizations, information on Economy and Industry in general, about the SEPI Group and the institutions which preceded it, about which we offer a sample in the bibliographic selection “EL INI Y SUS EMPRESAS”.
It includes INI’s Historical Library and Journals Collection, an auxiliary support resource for the users who consult the Historical Archive.
The catalogue of the bibliographic collections, made up by more than 16,000 titles of monographies, journals and serial publications, documents and grey literature, can be accessed through the Catálogo de la Biblioteca y Hemeroteca de SEPI
Historical Library
Its origin was linked from the start to INI’s establishment in 1941 to the interest in promoting the personnel skills and to the search of the knowledge demanded for starting the industrial activities on which the Instituto was interested about.
The specialized documentation collections compiled by the Library and the Journals Collection were organized in 1942 in the Information and Statistical subsection, attached to the Technical Department. In 1961, the Social Affairs Department began to operate a Library for the personnel of a general nature, with encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, literature, philosophy, religion, sociology, etc.
The need of providing the required training to the managers, technicians and employees in general generated a large interest in being up to date with the scientific and technical novelties, both in Europe and in the rest of the world.
It includes monographies and grey or non-commercial literature, made up for the most part by publications edited by INI: speeches by its chairmen, reports on its companies, industrial sectors, regional development, etc.; among them stand out the document collections of INI’s Technical Department and those of the Studies Department.
It is possible to consult the collections, with information about the books, journals articles and documents, through a search in our Catalogue
Historical journals collection
Since its start, INI’s activity generated a journals collection oriented to the different industrial sectors in which INI took part, originating one of the best collections of industrial themed journals.
The titles span a wide selection of areas, with a large sample in the first years of American, British, Italians, French, Swiss, or German journals.
It is possible to access to the more than 400 titles which make up the Historical Journals Collection through the Hemeroteca Histórica
Journals published by INI
INI produced many journals, on which it sought to show its activity in the domestic economy and on which it was possible to read translations of news and book reviews, in an attempt of not being isolated from the intellectual trends of that time.
Of the journals edited by INI, the one which recorded the largest coverage was titled “Revista de información del Instituto Nacional de Industria” (1947-1970). This institutional journal provides much information about the companies: their corporate image, the technical novelties at the time, cultural and artistic issues, new fields of knowledge, new materials and construction techniques, the advertisement of their products and the propaganda of their activities.
It is possible to consult the titles published by INI through the search in our catalogue of Revistas publicadas por el INI
Annual reports (1941- )
An extensive collection of annual reports is available for companies that have belonged to the INI, TENEO, AIE, and SEPI Groups, as well as the annual report of the Group's parent company since 1941.
You can access the list of available annual reports by searching our Company Reports catalog (INI, TENEO, AIE, SEPI).
Catalogue
Access to the catalogue