Services provided by the library

The Guillermo Ramos Núñez library is part of the Caña de Azúcar Information and Documentation Service, SEICA, a documentation center responsible for information on sugarcane in Colombia. The opening hours are from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday at the Cenicaña Experimental Station.
The loan of bibliographic material is limited for CENICAÑA researchers. Other users may have access through photocopies, electronic documents or loans between libraries within Colombia. Users from abroad can have a copy of the information through electronic documents or photocopies.
To request bibliographic material, consult the library catalog and then write to biblioteca@cenicana.org indicating the classification number, title and author of the document of interest. Also specify the following of the applicant:
Full name:
Email:
City:
Country:
Company:
Position:
Phone:
Finance and ingenuity: (in the case of being a cane grower)
Description of services:
Sending electronic documents
The Information and Documentation Service of the Sugar Cane, SEICA, supplies digital documents that can be distributed electronically in compliance with copyright law. Digital documents will be sent in PDF format via email. For applications outside Colombia the cost is US $ 10 per document. The cost for referral in Colombia is Col $ 10,000 per document. It can be canceled by bank transfer or electronic transfer.
Photocopies
SEICA supplies photocopies of documents to users in general. Photocopies to meet requests outside of Colombia have a cost of US $ 0.20 per page plus shipping costs. The cost for referral in Colombia is Col $ 100 per page plus shipping.
Consultation in reading room
Customer service at the Guillermo Ramos Núñez de Cenicaña Library. The books, documents and other materials selected by review of the databases and files must be requested from SEICA staff.
Reference
This is the name of the help that the staff of the Service provides to users in relation to the location of information and documentation both internally and in other national or international information services; help in the search, and general information or related to the sector, or with areas of interest.
Specialized bibliographies
They result from a specific search and are delivered to the applicant for consultation and subsequent uses, either loan of the material or photocopies.
Search in other databases on the Internet and on compact discs
For users of Cenicaña and the sugar sector.
Acquisition of publications
For users of Cenicaña or the sugar sector, the service of acquiring bibliographic material is provided, in the country or abroad, consists of the purchase of documents in different formats in areas of interest for the sugar sector.
News in library
Tables of content of some journals and conference proceedings recently acquired by the Center. The full documents are available for consultation in the reading room of the Cenicaña library.
Information divulgation
It is done through the Cenicaña website, exchange of publications, publication of Content Pages, circulation of publications among Center officials, and distribution of Cenicaña publications to users in the country and abroad.
Interlibrary Loan
Loans of material to external users through the libraries of their own institutions. The user must bring an interlibrary loan letter and the material is provided for one week.
Catálogo in linea
Through this tool all users can consult the information in the library in the cane, general and audiovisual collections. It allows retrieving bibliographic references and information in full text on the topics of plant health of sugarcane (pests and diseases). All the information presented in the catalog can be consulted in the facilities of the Guillermo Ramos Núñez Library.