Madroño Passport
What is it?
A card which allows all teachers, researchers, postgraduate students (Official, UPM’s own and Research Masters), research students in a teaching position, and Support Staff at the UPM to take out books on loan from any Madrid Public University
Universidad Carlos III
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I
Universidad de Alcalá
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
UNED
In two steps, both of them are essential:
1st step to follow
- Sign the document available in the Libraries in your Centre or download the document enitled Responsibilities of the user and return it by internal mail to Biblioteca Universitaria, Pasaporte Madroño, Rectorado A (essential).
2nd step to follow
- Fill in the form and return it to your centre library who will send it by internal mail to Biblioteca Universitaria, Pasaporte Madroño, Rectorado A (essential).
- The data base will be checked to make sure you are a Teacher or Researcher and your cardboard passport will be given to you together with the information considered necessary.
- The Madroño Passport will be given if the applicant has no outstanding sanctions at any of the participating libraries of the UPM.
- To renew the Passport please follow step 1 and 2 again.
Time Period
- For teachers and full professors: 5 years, it can be renewed for the same period.
- For contracted teachers: until the termination of the contract.
- For researchers: until the expiry date of the library card.
- For Support Staff: 5 years, it can be renewed for the same period.
- For contracted Support Staff: until the termination of the contract.
Loan Conditions
- Maximum loan of 4 specialised volumes, for 30 days, with the possibility to renew them once.
- Holds: Two holds and only if the material is checked out.
More information
In the Madroño Passport Agreement of the Madrid Public Universities (updated 2019)
Information can also be obtained from any of our libraries
Procedure for obtaining a researcher Card from the National library is as follows:
The National Library provides a researcher membership card to all of those people in possession Madroño Passport membership card.
Once you have the passport, the procedure to be followed to obtain a researcher membership card in the Library National for anybody is as follows:
The person must pass through the usual security controls at the entrance of the National Library.
After that, he or she must go to the General Information and Membership Card Section (2nd floor, central section, from 09:00 to 21:00 Monday to Friday, and Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:00) and apply for a researcher membership card. To facilitate the process, the person will inform the General Information staff that he or she is in possession of a Madroño Passport membership card.
At the General Information counter the person will be given a form to fill in, as well as basic information on the library (timetables, rooms, toilet facilities, rules of use, user training, etc.).
Once the form has been filled in, the person will then go to the counter for the issuing of membership card. The form will be handed in at that counter as will the rest of the documentation required (Madroño Passport membership card and National Identity Card, both of them valid); this documentation will be returned to the user at the end of the process. The library staff will take a digital photograph, enter personal data into the user data base of the library and issue a card/membership card with the data and photograph (so that the process need only be carried out once).
Once in possession of the said membership card, the holder will be able to use any service and room in the library and consult any of its collections.
Should it be necessary to apply for a new membership card (deterioration, loss, renewal), the user must go to General Information counter to make the application.