Dolors Lamarca y Morell (

Granollers Granollers () is a city in central Catalonia, about 30 kilometres north-east of Barcelona. It is the capital and most densely populated city in the comarca of Vallès Oriental. Granollers is now a bustling business centre, having grown from a t ...

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, 19 October 1943) is a Catalan librarian and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

. She has led the Service of Libraries and Bibliographic Heritage of the

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, and has directed the

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.Widow of Antoni Comas i Pujol, with whom she had three daughters.

Biography

Lamarca studied Classical Philology at the

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, and

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at the School of Bibliology. On November 5, 1974, she joined the faculty of Archivers, Librarians and Archaeologists (Library Section) at the University of Barcelona.. She led the "Library and Bibliographic Heritage Service" of the

from August 1, 1980 until March 2, 1983. During these years she established the foundations of the current Catalan library system, adapting cataloging regulations through the Catalan Institute of Bibliography and opening new libraries to provide more service to the public. Later, she was director of the Library of the

(1984-2000), achieving important milestones at the head of this network of libraries, such as the modernization of structures and buildings, adding full computerization. On February 12, 2004, she became director of the

., a position she held until June 2012. During these seven years she managed a fund of great bibliographic and documentary value made up of more than three million documents in different types of media. In an era where the information society is so important, the Library launched different digitization projects of its heritage fund to allow heritage diffusion at a global level for the

Library of Catalonia The Library of Catalonia ( ca, Biblioteca de Catalunya, ) is the Catalan national library, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The primary mission of the Library of Catalonia is to collect, preserve, and spread Catalan bibliographic producti ...

, and of everything that is published in Catalonia, thus preserving all of its contents at the same time. Under the motto "open, reliable and useful", she modernized the BC by purchasing new equipment, improving internal processes. Under his direction, numerous musical, literary or graphic heritage funds were acquired.

Selected works

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References

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