The Libraries and Documentation Service brings together all the libraries and archives of the University of Valencia. It coordinates the functioning of the various services points that exist in the different campuses of the University.

The purpose of the Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació is to provide excellent and sustainable information resources, spaces, and services for learning, teaching, research, and culture, contributing to the achievement of the strategy of the Universitat de València.

Its mission is to manage the University's information resources and historical bibliographic heritage, facilitate access and dissemination, and collaborate in the process of creating and transferring knowledge. The services it provides contribute to achieving the institution's goals and are aimed at the university community and society.

The vision of the service is to be recognized by our stakeholders as an excellent, innovative, sustainable, and highly valuable public service for the University and society.

The values of the Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació define our commitment to sustainability, professionalism, public service, and integrity, thus ensuring an inclusive, respectful, and service-oriented environment focused on excellence.

Commitment: We are committed to sustainability and social responsibility, to non-discrimination, the recognition of cultural and ideological diversity, and the co-official languages.

Professionalism: We work with professionalism, ensuring service quality, privacy, and confidentiality, with respect for the profession, users, and colleagues, sharing our knowledge and skills.

Public service: We are a public service, and we work for free access to information, the protection of copyright, intellectual and industrial property, as well as the conservation and preservation of our heritage.

Integrity: We are guided by integrity, guaranteeing intellectual freedom, working with transparency, and respecting the institution.

Some historical data

The origin of the Library goes back to the donation, in 1785, of the books by Francisco Pérez Baier. It was opened in 1788, being Vicente Blasco principal. Today, that library, placed on La Nau building (C/Universitat, 2, 46003, Valencia) is the Historical Library, where manuscripts, incunabula and printouts published between the 16th and 20th centuries are preserved.

Since the adoption of the statutes of the University of Valencia in 1985 a new service has been created called Bibliographic Service Information (SIB), which develops the basic tools of cohesion for all existing libraries from a common regulation.

Also it set outs a new organisational scheme with the structure of the different campuses of the University with the first libraries of the area: in 1990 the “Eduard Boscà” Sciences Library was inaugurated, in 1999 the “Gregori Maians” Social Sciences Library was inaugurated, in 2002 the Humanities Library was opened and in 2009 the “Pelegrí Casanova” Health Sciences Library was also inaugurated.

The scheme is completed with the libraries: “Joan Lluis Vives” Psychology and Sports Library, “María Moliner” Education Library, "Vicent Peset Llorca" Historical Medical Library and the “José Pizcueta” Botanical Garden Library , the Carme Miquel i Diego Campus d'Ontinyent Library and The Intermediate Archive and the Historical Archive.There is also a Depository  Library where are the books that has a lower frequency of use. Also, in the facilities of the "Gregori Maians" Social Sciences Library (2nd Floor-South Zone), is the United Nations Depository Library (ONUBIB) -Universitat de València.

In 2006, the service adopted its current name: Library and Documentation Service.