Welcome to the 50th BETH annual conference on the topic of the future of theological libraries! We are looking forward to your participation. This is a hybrid public event with invite-only login. To start building your customised schedule please registerfor the conference through the BETH website. After registering, you will receive an email inviting you to create your profile and schedule in Sched. By logging in to Sched you will be able to create your personal schedule and see who else is attending our event. This will also be the place where you will be able to access the Zoom meetings during the conference. Please note that the live Zoom links will become available shortly before each session. All the sessions will be recorded. To join the meeting, login into your Sched account, open the desired session, and click on Open Zoom. Should you have any questions or concerns please contact us at info@beth.eu.
In the last ten years, Spanish university libraries have been equipped with so-called "discovery tools" to offer their users a single point of search for scientific information available in different formats. The present work begins by analyzing the instruments that libraries have been using in the last decades to access information, from OPACs to discovery tools, for which it is described the commercial products most installed in Spain, as well as the way their users look for academic information. In order to know the situation of the discovery tools in the Spanish university libraries, data was collected in two ways: the direct study of their web pages, as well as the carrying out of a survey, addressed to the library management, which obtained a percentage of response very representative Finally, the results of the surveys and of the study of the websites of the Spanish university libraries are analyzed and the conclusions drawn are presented regarding the degree of satisfaction, the effect of their use in different library services, as well as the valuation of the commercial solutions installed.
