Department of Education and Experimental Surgery

The Department of Education and Experimental Surgery has an operating room equipped with devices for microsurgery. In it, postgraduates and practicing ophthalmologists surgical techniques to carry out studies and research. For their operating tables, properly equipped with a microscope, slit lamp and tools, pass daily medical residents that they perform their instruction and manual training in animal eyes. The type of surgery that can play is basically the same as is done in operating rooms: extraction of lens, cornea transplantation, retina surgery, etc.. Except the eyelid and lacrimal surgery.

Photographic Documentation Department

Photographic Documentation Department collaborates with the Institute and ophthalmologists Barraquer Barraquer Ophthalmology Center, providing slides and photographs for scientific journals, conferences and congresses, coming from the department's file itself. It also produces, duplicates and edit digital movies, video tapes, etc.. The photographic department consists of black and white negatives, slides, video tapes and films of 16 mm. and digital.

Library "Josefa Barraquer Moner"

In the original plans of Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre in 1934, and include the library downstairs, though officially opened in 1947. In 1974 he built a new library, located in the attic of the building, larger, to accommodate a reading room. In the old library on the ground floor is the oldest texts preserved, which belonged to José Antonio and Ignacio Barraquer. Given the large increase in the purchase of publications, in the year 2000, a further move to a larger space, equipped with mobile filing. The new library is called "Barraquer Moner Josefa Library" in honor of which was the wife of Ignacio Barraquer.

Stand out for their interest to the Medical Records (1892-1910) and the journal Ophthalmology (1909-1913), both of José Antonio Barraquer Ophthalmological studies and reports and the Annals of the Institute Barraquer. Curiously, the volume include the library's oldest dating from 1660, and there are many examples dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of great historical value.

The library subscribes to journals, specific to ophthalmology, has an audiovisual room, and features Internet connection to readers. It combines a manual search of bibliographies with queries to databases in electronic form (CD-ROM, Internet, library requests to other domestic and foreign).

The Barraquer Institute Library belongs to the Biomedical Documentation Coordinator, which is a founding member, and the C17 catalog, founded later. These groups were created with the aim of establishing a partnership between the Medical libraries specialized in Catalonia and Spain, respectively, and also promote mutual understanding of the available funds in order to exchange information.