Ex-libris of the Libraries UPC

Libraries release bookplates!

In the year 2023, libraries have opted for a new bookplate design created by generative art that plays with classic elements of the UPC, along with other representatives of the University's studies. The central elements chosen are the circle, representative of the UPC, and an open book, which recalls thecurrent ex-libris of the libraries.

Open book (library ex-libris until 2022)

_Circle

^{(representative of the UPC)}

_{open book}

^{(library ex-libris until 2023)}

_Ones

^{(Telecommunications)}

_{Land survey}

^{(Roads and Architecture)}

The proposal was made byAnna Carreras, digital artist and creative programmer, who has used these elements to create generative algorithms that have resulted in 13 digital artworks:

12 bookplates, one for each of the libraries of the UPC.

1 bookplate that combines all the elements and represents the diversity of the University.

^{Algorithm and resulting artistic representation in the form of ex-libris}

A personalized bookplate for each library

More about bookplates

But what is an bookplate?

According to the Dictionary of the Catalan language of the Institute of Catalan Studies the term bookplate has 2 meanings:

Inscription, usually printed on a small sheet, often with an engraving, placed on books in a library to indicate ownership.

Mold, usually of boxwood, on which the bookplate for stamping is engraved.

[Ex libris Lea de Klerk-Jessurun] by http://data.jck.nl/resource/skos/thespersoon/11936 - Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/270/resource_document_jhm_museum_M015154

^{Front and back of 2 ex-libris stamps.}

[EXLIBRIS A PALACHE] por anoniem - Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/270/resource_document_jhm_museum_M015199

Bookplates of libraries UPC

In 2007 the libraries of the UPC released their first ex-libris on the occasion of the publication of their 4th. Strategic plan Aprèn 2007-2010. This was followed by bookplates that libraries have used until 2023.


^{Bookplate Learn 2007}	^{Bookplates 2011-2023}	^{New ex-libris 2023}

The bookplates of the UPC

Two ex-libris models have also been designed for the Rectorate of the UPC, with the possibility of printing or silk-screening the different bookplates for futurare exhibitions or decoration.