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Editorial. International conference "From the book pandemic to bibliography".

2021-12-19T21:36:08+01:00

The book in the prison system in the state of Espírito Santo: social device in the pandemic

2021-12-17T06:53:01+01:00

This study the relevance of books in the prisional system of the State of the Espirito Santo and its possibilities of use in the period of the pandemic of the Covid-19 argues, either for the general aspects or the clipping established in the units of closed regime during the year of 2020. The general objective is to recognize books as social devices in this environment. The specific objectives aim at: to approach them as source for transposition of the reality of the jail; to discourse on the potentialities and limits of its uses in periods of sanitaryrestrictions in the Espirito Santo; e to argue on the importance of the book for the convicts during the pandemic. The justification resides in its social coverage for the visibility of the book as social device and right of the convicts in regular periods of restrictions during the pandemic. It`s about a qualitative and exploratory research, with use of the procedures of bibliographical research, documentary of field. In the first stage it was carried through official survey of bibliographical materials (theses, dissertation, scientific articles) and documents (laws, recommendations, techinical guidelines) for the treatment and deepening in the subject and better knowledge of the universe of the research. For the field research, interview directed to the Sub-Manegement of Education in Prisons with the intention to collect data on uses of the libraries and services of book loans during the pandemic. The results indicate that, for the application of legal regulations, relatives to the uses of books in benefit of the convicts, is necessary the understanding of its potentialities as social device in different conjunctures. The conclusions guarantee the agreement of book-device must be pandemic in the prisional system, that is, must be spread in fast and wide scale, allowing the access to different knowledge in custody of institutions that control collection and subjects.

Bibliography out of the wardrobe: what does Brazilian information science reveals about issues of gender and sexual dissidence?

2021-12-17T06:34:56+01:00

Objective: Elaboration of a bibliographic repertoire on gender issues and sexual dissidences in Brazilian Information Science from 1972 to 2021.
Method: The research is qualitative, exploratory and bibliographical in nature, in which we surveyed and organized a bibliographic repertoire of scientific articles, scientific communications, theses, dissertations and books on gender issues and sexual dissidences in the field of Information Science.
Result: The results shows the construction of a bibliographic repertoire with a total of 128 bibliographic sources, with 107 representing articles and periodical communications, 18 theses and dissertations and 3 books.
Conclusion: We believe that studies like this are important to give visibility to gender issues and sexual dissent, which are so marginalized in our social environment.

The Art of Bibliography in Brazil: analysis of production in some scientific journals (2014-2020)

2021-12-17T06:25:05+01:00

“The Art of Bibliography” is an international seminar that, since 2014, takes place every year. The papers presented in this seminar are, from 2015, published in journals with relevance in the area of Information Science. From these papers, the objective of this work is to study the theoretical conceptions and the concrete activities related to the domain of Bibliography in Brazil. The quali-quantitative study analyzes the production on the theme to evidence the evolution of the concept of bibliography present in the scientific productionthat relates Brazil to other countries, highlighting the conceptions and activities developed by researchers. Specifically, the research seeks to identify the elements that draw the domain, through the production on the theme “Bibliography”. In view of the above, this is a study of descriptive nature, since it analyzes the content of the articles, from categories of analysis and information raised in the scientific production considered. From the selected production on the theme, it was possible to verify that the theoretical epistemological, techno-methodological and sociopolitical dimensions are present, built as categories during the content analysis.

«To bring light to the pious reader»: references to information sources and transmission of knowledge in the artistic recipe book by João Stooter (1729-1732)

2021-12-17T06:15:14+01:00

Born in Antwerp and living in Portugal, the diamond cutter João Stooter acquired some prominence in the 18th century when he produced an armory manual and an artistic recipe book. His works were intended to improve the quality of the products created by the Kingdom’s mechanical officers and artists, making them rival foreign products. Regarding his second work, an artistic how-to-do book entitled «Arte de Brilhantes Vernises», the author
found himself moved to write on a wide range of subjects – such as varnishes, paints, and glues – relating to the artisanal transformation of raw materials that the overseas trade dumped on the Portuguese market, such as wood from Brazil and Africa. At the dawn of Portuguese Illustration, Stooter gathered,
tested and corrected recipes for varnishes and other artistic compounds obtained from a wide range of information sources, above all in various genres of printed books. With the result of the experiments conducted in his studio, which aimed at testing, correcting and standardizing the preparations and techniques, he composed the first recipe book of its kind to be printed in Portuguese. The work was edited by the Verdussen house, in Antwerp, between
1729 and 1732. Several copies of it were later enhanced with handwritten notes by the author. In printed and manuscript texts – which were born from
his bibliographic gesture, when selecting, compiling and mediating previous records – the author developed a complex system of internal references to the contents of the book and to works taken as a source, which required the technical gesture of the artisan if added to the indicated reading path, so that a preparation could be carried out satisfactorily. Based on the proposition that the field of bibliography encompasses the history of production and uses of books, this study will demonstrate how the references defined this recipe book model, placing itself at the center of the transmission of artisanal knowledge advocated in the work.

Searching for Conrad Gesner in the Brazilian tropics: the documentary presence of Gesner bibliographical works in heritage libraries

2021-12-17T06:01:39+01:00

The paper offers a historical-bibliographical discussion of the copies of Bibliotheca Universalis (1545), Pandectae (1548) and Bibliotheca instituta et collecta (1574), by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), present in two Brazilian heritage libraries: the Library of Saint Benedict’s Monastery of São Paulo (BMSBSP) and the National Library of Brazil (BN), in Rio de Janeiro. The contextualization and characterization of the copies are based on the following theoretical-methodological course: 1) presentation of the Gesnerian bibliographical studies in Brazil; 2) considerations on the presence of the Gesnerian editions in libraries; 3) historical comments on BMSBSP and BN; 4) historical notes and analysis of the copies of Bibliotheca Universalis (1545), Pandectae (1548) and Bibliotheca instituta et collecta (1574) safeguarded in BMSBSP and BN, highlighting their extrinsic and intrinsic aspects from their analytical bibliographical description. The copies of BMSBSP and BN have values that are expressed in two keys: 1) “universal” historical-cultural value, linked to the role of these works in bibliographical studies and in Gesnerian Studies; 2) “local” historical-cultural value, linked to the institutional context, modality and motivations of acquisition, preservation, mediation, use, control, circulation and appropriation of the copies. In the landscape of the two heritage libraries highlighted here, the Gesnerian universality - although it can be reviewed, relativized, and even tensioned in the context of the tropics - constitutes a geographical and conceptual space that includes not only the Old World, but also the New World. Indeed, the Gesnerian bibliographical works trace an intriguing and passionate historical-bibliographical thread between the 16th century polymath and the Bibliography of the Brazilian tropics.

Other books, other handwritings: indigenous reports

2021-12-16T23:58:05+01:00

It approaches in an unconventional way other books and other spellings present in the indigenous ways of writing, materializing and narrating their stories. The concepts of book and spelling are interpreted broadly. Activating a diversity of indigenous reports and exposing, through different thoughts, other possibilities of imagining them. Accepting the assumption that there are no unwritten cultures and that formulations about ‘illiterate societies’ are colonizing effects of an ethnocentric thought, the crossing proposed by this text is to attend, as far as possible, these other bibliographies crossed out and censored by the traditional book and by the universal spelling of Western peoples as primitive expressions. Decolonizing our bibliographic thinking is the horizon targeted by this research. Listening to the stories of the indigenous people is an endbeggining, devouring the end for the beginning. The end of the book is the cessation of its absolute, finished and universal condition. The end of the unique and western book is the beginning of the scriptural opening and its material plasticities. The strength of the concept of the book expressed in the semiophagy of the bookOunce, proposed from a differOunce (différonce), is a way of dreaming in the Amerindian way a new and, simultaneously, an old beginning: the open possibility of the book once more as a sign of freedom of self-determination from the multiple meanings of different peoples. This text brings a report of the cultivated jungle of Abya Yala – the Living Earth. Perhaps this is an endbeggining to the disconcerting otherness of the bibliographic messages that we insist on forgetting.

A woman among men: Christine de Pizan's bibliographical gesture in The City of Dames

2021-12-16T23:38:29+01:00

This paper is a theoretical and exploratory research on the concepts of bibliography and bibliographic gesture, in relation to the book The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan (1363-1431 AD). In this work, the Italian author based in France, disputes the widely revered and referencedpatriarchal bibliography, by selecting 150 female personalities who stood out in various fields of knowledge, by means of a logical argument as well as a memorial to female reputation. The discussion hereby presented is supported by the literature review performed by Eduardo Alentejo (2015) - to whom bibliography is understood both as a material and intellectual product, under the notion of repertoire, lists or subject descriptions, always guided by general policies and individual choices of bibliographers, thus related to selection, and clipping – and by the notion of bibliographic gesture, as defined by Giulia Crippa (2015, 2016). Other authors like André Araújo (2015), Viviane Couzinet and Patrick Fraysse (2019) are useful to better understand the concept of bibliography; and, to contextualize Christine de Pizan in her time, Rosalind Brown-Grant (1999), Patrizia Caraffi (2003, 2004), Diana Arauz Mercado (2005), Tracy Adams Rechtschaffen (2010), Ana Rieger Schmidt (2020a, 2020b) and Jacques Le Goff (2006). The Book of the City of Ladies was read in two versions: one translated to English (1999) and other to Portuguese (2012), both developed from the original text in Old French. The results show that, given the different existing notions of bibliography and the historical limitations imposed on women, the efforts undertaken by Pizan in this book, although apparently lacking the theoretical-conceptual delimitation of what is understood as bibliography nowadays, result in a remarkable repertoire of references, that deserve to be observed through the lens of bibliography and Knowledge Organization and considered by the field as a bibliographic gesture.

A Brazilian bibliographical policy? The historical and political course of the national bibliography in Brazil

2021-12-16T23:09:46+01:00

It aims to understand the initiatives for the construction of Brazilian national bibliographies under the prism of political bias. From the historical context, we will seek to show how much the national bibliography is linked to the rise and strengthening of government and information regimes. It covers four periods of Brazilian history - Proclamation of the Republic (1889), Vargas Era (1930-1945), military dictatorship (1964-1985) and democratic reopening (1985-) - observing how they reverberate in distinct bibliographic policies that fostered accelerated construction or erasure of the Brazilian national bibliography, as well as the institutions involved in its construction. Uses as theoretical framework Fonseca (1972), Maeda (2016) and Juvêncio (2016) seeking to delimit the history and trajectory of the construction of national bibliographies in Brazil, in addition to González de Gómez (2002, 2012, 2015) and Braman (2004) to elucidate what an information regime is. As a method, it uses a bibliographic-documental research, based on primary sources on the subject. It concludes that the efforts undertaken in the construction of bibliographies over the last 100 years in Brazil derive from the action of different informational regimes. Whether with the emergence or decline of institutions, as well as the greater or lesser attention given to the elaboration of the repository of national intellectual production, he realizes that there is a bibliographic political gesture, even if undeclared, that populates the efforts to elaborate a national bibliography.

Bibliographical principles in Brazilian degree courses in Library Sciences: an analysis of the epistemological curricular specificity

2021-12-16T22:52:42+01:00

The field of documentary mediation actions in a bibliographic approach deals with referencing and disseminating knowledge through systems, products and services that promote the qualified use of information by an audience, aiming at its appropriation. The Bibliography course presents concepts and operations that form the fundamental basis of the described field. These fundamental bibliographic aspects – or bibliographic principles – constitute the
structuring axis of curricular proposals aimed at professional formation and research. Despite the fact that bibliographic principles constitute the structuring axis of Librarianship courses, we question whether these principles are currently sufficient and properly present in the curricular proposals of these courses in Brazil. Thus, the objective of the research is to characterize the presence of bibliographic principles in Brazilian Librarianship education, through the analysis of undergraduate programs, verifying whether these programs provide epistemological specificity concerning the social function of information appropriation by an audience. Initially, a scheme of bibliographic principles and the processes and products that derive from them is presented, which allows to guide and underpin the study; then, an empirical analysis is carried out with the proposition of categories, selection of undergraduate Librarianship coursesand teaching programs, analysis and discussion. The analysis of curricular proposals indicates that bibliographic principles were not abandoned, but there was a partial erasure, often leading to a loss of focus and specificity. It is necessary to invest in curricular proposals whose epistemological specificity is easily identified and aimed at educating for the social function of the field that deals with documentary mediation actions in a bibliographical approach.

Bibliography and memory: Filippo Gesualdo's Eighteenth Lecture and Conrad Gesner's Pandectae

2021-12-16T22:35:53+01:00

In Filippo Gesualdo’s work on mnemonics titled Plutosofia, which appeared in 1592, there is a chapter dedicated to the Library of Memory. In this chapter Gesualdo gives an explanation about the techniques to build up a mnemonic library. According to Gesualdo’s advice, it is possible to organize the mind just like a library, where every book could find its own proper place. The library structure would be organized by some loci, as a building, a space, a room and so on. The analysis of this kind of ordering system reveals some significant analogies with the bibliographic system used by Conrad Gesner to organize his Pandectae. A comparison between the two works highlights how both of the systems could lead to draw a mental map of the human knowledge and it shed a light on the genesis of the Gesner’s Pandectae.

From bibliography to book history... and vice versa! (with the case of a fake "fake")

2021-12-16T12:02:23+01:00

We are witnessing a dangerous departure from the history of the book towards sociology, of the bibliography towards the information sciences. Instead, the two disciplines must reclaim their identity. How can they do it? Reconnecting, each in its own way, to the materiality of the book. Intellectual production, in fact, is expressed through the creation of articulated objects (books) which, on paper or through bits (sometimes both together), themselves dictate the conditions for their access.

The Bibliographical technical school (1886-1889): a 'missed' opportunity

2021-12-16T11:51:19+01:00

The paper aims to analyze the regulations and the program of studies envisaged by the Scuola tecnica bibliografica – a two-year technical course established in 1886 to be given at the central national libraries of Rome and Florence – in order to outline the strategies that the Ministry of Public Education intended to implement in the field for the professional training of librarians. The unpublished correspondence accompanying these official documents between the Minister of Public Education Michele Coppino, Desiderio Chilovi and Domenico Gnoli is examined, in order to shed light on the complex events that led to perennial postponements of the inauguration of the new course up to to arrive at an inevitable and sad ending: its ‘failure’ to start.

Bibliography, female noun: Jules Gay and Desirée Veret

2021-12-16T11:37:25+01:00

In 1861 an important bibliography dedicated to love, women and marriage was published in Paris, under the pseudonym M. le C. d’I***. The author (and publisher) was Jules Gay. He was 54 years old and had had both important political and editorial experiences. In particular, with the agreement with socialism and the ideas of Robert Owen, he propagated the principles of social and sexual equality. The influence exerted on him and his numerous publications on women by his wife Désirée Veret, a proletarian seamstress, feminist militant, but also a woman with passionate loves, was very profound. But we must not think of her as some kind of Gay muse. Rather, she was the intermediary of a special relationship between bibliography and history.

Proposal for a new methodological approach to the study of 20th century Bibliography

2021-12-16T11:06:32+01:00

The constant technological revolution that we have been witnessing for decades has affected all forms of communication and, consequently, has also involved the ‘recorded communication’ that pertains to bibliographic thought and action. Since the end of the nineteenth century and especially since the first decades of the twentieth century, this has led to a process of change in the structure of all scientific disciplines, including Bibliography. This process has had two fundamental consequences for bibliography: on the one hand, it has meant that bibliography as a meta-discipline is endowed with new instruments of investigation; on the other, it changed the disciplinary scope of bibliography itself, to the point where it has found itself specialised in a number of other derived disciplines. The need to clarify what happened is particularly felt in Italy, where even in the last century the documentary and bibliographical disciplines had an important development and debate, but it is also widely felt in the rest of the European context and beyond, as demonstrated by recent occasions of international scientific and conference comparison and as highlighted by some of the recent Italian studies of Bibliography and Information Sciences. In this contribution we discuss a methodological hypothesis to investigate the problem. In particular, it is argued that the solution to the problem is to be searched in a new methodological approach that includes both a qualitative survey of the main sources of the discipline in the Italian context – i.e., the traditional survey method of Bibliography – and a quantitative investigation necessarily conducted with the decisive help of the application of Linked Data technology to the most recent production of the discipline. The twofold approach would allow to give a concrete start to this disciplinary arrangement, reconstructing the most recent process of metamorphosis, identifying the junctions and the forms (methodologies, tools, and objectives) both in diachronic and synchronic terms.

Bibliography and the information society

2021-12-16T10:58:05+01:00

The paper offers reflection on the contribution that bibliography can offer to the information society. In recent decades, the role of information has become decisive not only as regards the cultural but also economic aspects of society. With the spread of the Internet, a general rethinking of information organization became indispensable. In this new scenario, the bibliography can play an important role in the context of recorded communication.

Models and forms of bibliographical thinking: in search of a point of view to interpret complexity

2021-12-16T09:48:25+01:00

The paradigmatic transformations, rapid and in continuous acceleration, of the organization and communication of knowledge in contemporary reality make it necessary to reflect on the principles on which models and methods of the bibliographic tradition are based. This paper examines these topics: a) the elementary entities that constitute the “objects” of the representation of knowledge, from “books” to “data”; b) the description of some of the essential characteristics of the models of representation of these “objects”; c) the ways in which the perception of representations is carried out and communicated, through the recordings, giving rise to the different interfaces of bibliographic mediation, in the classic frame of the Bibliographic universe; d) the relational and holistic nature that characterizes the empirical phenomena referred to knowledge of objects, bibliographic and extra-bibliographic; e) the model profile of a possible Bibliographic multiverse; e) the general lines of a “point of view” with which to hypothesize the integration, following Michel Foucault, of “words” and “things”.

L’arte della ricerca: fonti, libri, biblioteche: studi offerti ad Alberto Petrucciani per i suoi 65 anni, a cura di Simonetta Buttò, Vittorio Ponzani, Simona Turbanti, con la collaborazione di Enrico Pio Ardolino, Roma, AIB, 2021

2021-07-29T07:29:20+02:00

Rossana Morriello, Le raccolte bibliotecarie digitali nella società dei dati, Milano, Bibliografica, 2020

2021-07-16T17:02:11+02:00

Le biblioteche dell’alta formazione musicale: prove di monitoraggio e valutazione, a cura di Giovanni Di Domenico, con Anna Bilotta e Maria Senatore Polisetti, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020

2021-07-16T16:57:39+02:00

Chiara Faggiolani, Come un Ministro per la cultura: Giulio Einaudi e le biblioteche nel sistema del libro, Firenze, Firenze university press, 2020

2021-07-16T16:51:30+02:00

Antonella Trombone, Teresa Motta: una bibliotecaria e “un anno di vicende memorabili”: con lettere inedite di Francesco Barberi e Manlio Rossi Doria (1943-1949), presentazione di Alberto Petrucciani, Rionero in Vulture, Caliceditori, 2020

2021-07-16T16:46:19+02:00

Marco Menato - Simone Volpato, Immondi librai antiquari: Saba libraio, lettore e paziente di Umberto Levi, con una nota di Antonio Della Rocca, prefazione di Stefano Carrai, postfazione di Giovanni Biancardi, Biblion, Milano, 2020

2021-07-16T16:41:23+02:00

Gigi Raimondo - Raffaele Carrieri, Il Sabato dei bibliofili: Milano 1936, a cura di Massimo Gatta, con scritti di Luca Montagner, Massimo Gatta, Antonio Castronuovo, Macerata, Biblohaus, 2020

2021-07-16T16:36:22+02:00

Lorenzo Pezzica, L’archivio liberato: guida teorico-pratica ai fondi storici del Novecento, Milano, Bibliografica, 2020

2021-07-16T16:31:12+02:00

Mart, Guida all’Archivio del ‘900, Rovereto, Mart, 2020

2021-07-16T16:26:48+02:00

Annantonia Martorano, Classificare il potere: dal Prospetto delle materie del 1803 alla gestione documentale delle Prefetture, Torre del Lago, Civita editoriale, 2020

2021-07-16T16:20:56+02:00

Chiara Reatti, Tra aula e torchio: libri e scuola a Bologna da Napoleone all’età della Restaurazione, Bologna, CLUEB, 2020

2021-07-16T15:55:01+02:00

Anton Bruck - István Monok - Éva Edina Zvara, Bewahrte Geistigkeit und Kulturerbe von drei Nationen. Die Historische Bibliothek des Franziskanerklosters in Güssing, Budapest-Güssing, Franziskanerkloster Güssing, 2021

2021-07-16T15:51:44+02:00

István Monok - Edina Zvara, Esterhasiana Biblioteca. A gyűjtemény története és könyvanyagának rekonstrukciója, Budapest, Kossuth Kiadó, 2020

2021-07-16T15:43:25+02:00

Benedetto Bacchini nell’Europa fra Sei e Settecento: libri, arti e scienze, a cura di Sonia Cavicchioli e Paolo Tinti, Modena, Panini, 2020

2021-07-16T15:35:21+02:00

Romilda Saggini - Paolo Ramagli, Libri antichi tra Savona e Albenga: inventari cinquecenteschi e catalogazione dei fondi di due diocesi liguri, Udine, Forum, 2020

2021-07-16T15:32:01+02:00

La peste e la stampa: Venezia nel XVI e XVII secolo, a cura di Sabrina Minuzzi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020

2021-07-16T15:26:58+02:00

Paolo Sachet, Publishing for the popes: the roman Curia and the use of printing (1527-1555), Leiden-Boston, 2020

2021-07-16T15:19:52+02:00

Erasmo da Rotterdam, Prefazioni ai Vangeli, 1516-1522 , a cura di Silvana Seidel Menchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2021

2021-07-16T15:12:38+02:00

Enrico Pio Ardolino, Storiografia delle biblioteche: genesi, stabilità e fratture di una tradizione di studi , Pesaro, Metauro, 2020

2021-07-14T20:36:07+02:00

Francesca Longo Auricchio - Giovanni Indelli - Giuliana Leone - Gianluca Del Mastro, La Villa dei Papiri: una residenza antica e la sua biblioteca , Roma, Carocci, 2020

2021-07-14T20:26:45+02:00

Establishing an «Orientalium linguarum Bibliotheca» in 17th-century Vienna: Sebastian Tengnagel and the trajectories of his manuscripts

2021-06-16T12:27:31+02:00

Sebastian Tengnagel was the court librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna from 1608 until his death in 1636. At the same time, he was an active member of the Republic of Arabic Letters, the circle of European scholars devoted to acquiring and disseminating knowledge of the Orient in early modern Europe. The Austrian National Library holds two groups of texts that can help us understand the complexity of his intellectual endeavours: the corpus of manuscript letters describing his work as an Orientalist and as a librarian, and the collection of Oriental manuscripts built up by Tengnagel. The two sources must be studied together, because each sheds light on the other. Only by interlinking them can we attempt to answer the crucial questions: how and why, in early 17th-century Vienna, did one become an Orientalist? What were the ‘tools of the trade’? This paper is a survey of this material, based upon the interdisciplinary project The Oriental Outpost of the Republic of Letters. Sebastian Tengnagel (d. 1636), the Imperial Library in Vienna, and Knowledge of the Orient carried out at the University of Vienna at the Department of Near East Studies and the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Through specific case studies it shows how it is possible to reconstruct both the provenance and trajectories of certain books, and the stories of those who carried or studied them.

My library

2021-06-16T11:00:48+02:00

Bibliography of the Italian authors

2021-06-16T10:51:37+02:00

The paper proposes, also as support of the National Library Service, the creation of a national repertoire that chronologically indexes the editorial production of the Italian authors, both handwritten and printed. The repertoire, entitled Bibliographic Dictionary of Italian Authors, would offer systematic evidence of the works of each Italian author, with a hypothetical regional structure.

A day for open science: ‘Viaggiatori in Toscana: personaggi e testimonianze’

2021-06-16T10:27:10+02:00

The report reconstructs the lectures held on April 9 2021 during the open science day dedicated to Viaggiatori in Toscana: personaggi e testimonianze, organized by the ‘Festival di Pasqua’ of the Municipality of Montepulciano. The main theme was the ‘journey’ as social, formative and cultural education experience, and in particular the journey in Tuscany, place of choice for many Italian and foreign grandtourists. The speeches show the results of research that has seen the examination of library, archival, artistic and musicological sources and experiences that are so different from each other but which, in a harmonious and interconnected way, give back the image of a social and cultural phenomenon based on the exchange and contamination of ideas. All of this is done through a new form of divulgation, intended for a non-academic public and in line with the principles of the Third Mission of the universities.

For a hypothesis of metacatalogation

2021-06-16T10:17:43+02:00

The contribution starts from the Mauro Guerrini book (Dalla catalogazione alla metadatazione) that he has the definition of metacatalogation was
suggested, as a term containing a series of descriptive phenomena that should make it possible to identify and represent both archives and libraries. Between “cataloging and metadating” the descriptive elements resist. A bibliographic record of a paper catalog consists of a metadata set, just as the elements represented in an archival search tool can be called metadata. For real innovation, the archival inventory must be transformed into an information system, almost a search engine, characterized by specific strategies and filters. The inventory will be in the archive and no longer of the archive even if the contextual elements as a whole must never fail. Information constitutes the essential heritage of any society: the public, civil and political perception of archives and libraries has the task of putting themselves at the service of enlarged communities and processes on a very large range.

Digital Library, or the evolution of the library: the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana and its new open access Digital Library dedicated to manuscripts

2021-06-16T10:05:20+02:00

The Digital Library – used here to connote a general category – aims to innovate the range of services offered to the public by ‘analogue libraries’ to a varied group of users. These services cross the multifaceted cases of public reading libraries (and a large and generalist pool of users), of university libraries (and an equally large pool of users made up of students, undergraduates, faculty, and researchers), and also extend to the world of conservation libraries, which attract a specialized niche audience, very often of international origin. The digitization of precious, ancient, books – both manuscript and printed – represents a great and complex challenge from many points of view (conceptual, design, implementation, logistics, economic, personnel management, etc.), but also the most intuitive way we have now to expand the services offered to users in digital form. In the (recent) past, many digital library initiatives have been carried out in this sense by individual library institutions, as well as by individual private programs or government projects, with variable results in terms of objectives actually achieved, sustainable permanence online, and their ability to effectively counteract the so-called ‘digital obsolescence’ by updating the entire technological infrastructure of the project itself, as well as the individual digital contents, to guarantee their survival. Nowadays, web- based technologies have evolved, increased, and standardized to such an extent that a new approach is possible for digital libraries in terms of usability, visualization, and multi-platform replication of digital content.

The cultural property as the soul of the world

2021-06-16T09:35:35+02:00

Examination and discussion of the specific nature of the Cultural property, in relation to their misterious origin and their current mental function, both in connection with the development of a specific stage of civilization and the needs of the modern man.

The problem of digital legacy in the transmission of personal archives and libraries

2021-06-16T09:29:09+02:00

The digital revolution that for at least a couple of decades has radically transformed every sector of society has not neglected to make profound changes also in the personal life of each one – which is becoming more and more ‘digital’ – and in the production and use of documents. Through personal computers, tablets and smartphones, we draw up documents, take notes and personal notes, write literary texts, develop studies and projects, take photographs, read books, interact on social networks, etc. In this way, many documents are created in digital format and many magazines and books are purchased and read in digital format as well. As a consequence, the digital part in personal archives is increasing more and more (and these are turning into “digital personal archives”); in the same way, personal libraries increasingly consist of digital books and magazines and therefore they are becoming ‘personal digital libraries’ too. In many cases digital material is stored on virtual spaces made available by cloud service providers and become accessible only to those who know (or have) the necessary credentials. But faced with this transformation, many people begin to ask themselves: what will happen to these personal digital fonds after the death of the producers or owners? Will the heirs be able to accommodate this legacy? To answer these questions, we need to face the problem of the transmission of the digital legacy, fully understanding the implications that derive from having entrusted personal fonds to systems often protected by inscrutable access mechanisms and trying to identify the solutions that could allow them to secure their future, avoiding falling into that ‘digital dark age’ that more than someone has already begun to foreshadow.

Orsa Maggiore, editor of Radclyffe Hall

2021-06-16T09:17:35+02:00

In 1946, the Edizioni dell’Orsa maggiore started to publish all the Radlyffe Hall’s books. The Author has been censored in England and her first literary work, The Well of Loneliness, became an incredible success (the first edition in England has been published in 1928 and in Italy in 1930 by the publisher Modernissima). In Italy, Hall is known thanks to two traslators (both are linked to Gian Dàuli and the publisher Corbaccio): Annie Lami and, above all, Mimi Oliva Lentati (the leader of Editrice dell’Orsa maggiore). The present article is about the little publisher Orsa and its brief, but very important for italian lesbian movement, history.

The philosophy of history in Giorgio Emanuele Ferrari: a philosopher in the Marciana Library

2021-06-16T09:08:10+02:00

Giorgio Emanuele Ferrari understood the library work in light of one of its fundamental assets: being a witness of the Zeitgeist. A privileged position in the management of documents, the librarian can profile tools and content of human self-understanding, both in its essence and its evolution. In the essay, we analyze G.E. Ferrari’s texts and unearth the philosophical drive of his vocation.

Francesco Lumachi: contribution to the biography of a Florentine publisher of the Early Twentieth century

2021-06-16T08:54:42+02:00

Francesco Lumachi, the small Florentine bookseller who made his debut on the Italian publishing scene in 1900, despite belonging to an entrepreneurial reality, that of booksellers-publishers, anchored more to the past than to the future, is considered to have inaugurated, together with the new century, the modern book. With intuition and audacity, he was the first to contribute to the notoriety of authors destined to impose themselves on the cultural
scene for their innovative qualities, and with refined aesthetic taste he published volumes of typographical elegance and sometimes also of unconventional form. As a true “friend of books”, as he liked to define himself, he was also the storyteller of amusing bibliographical stories. A multifaceted figure who always remained shrouded in mystery, due to his shy and modest nature, his brief professional career with dramatic results, and the probable loss of
his personal and work papers. In an attempt to fill the biographical gap, this contribution presents the results of archival research that, for the first time,
digs into Francesco Lumachi’s family roots and his schooling, a background from which unpublished elements emerge and, at the same time, a range of questions susceptible to further investigation, together with personality traits that find points of contact in editorial and existential choices, such as inconsistencies and fascinations that can be justified by the historical context of reference. The work also avails itself of an iconographic collection, also partly unpublished, as evidence and proof of the topics dealt with.

«What began as a hobby became a consuming quest»: American bibliophile William Lawrence Clements and his collection of incunabula

2021-06-16T08:38:38+02:00

This paper aims to describe the activity of the bibliophile William Lawrence Clements, an American industrial businessman and one of the greatest
collectors of the 20th century. During the golden age of American book collecting, William Clements managed to set up an outstanding book collection
specialized in Americana, never seen before in the Midwest of the United States. Through the study of the William L. Clements Library’s incunabula collection, it is possible to reconstruct the history of the individual copies and the cultural environment in which William Clements worked. Sold through auctions and individual merchants, these incunabula belonged to prestigious collections and still retain fundamental provenances that allow the reconstruction of their journey. The study of the itinerary of the incunabula throughout the centuries, from Europe to America, is reconstructed by analyzing elements such as ex libris, inscriptions, bindings, stamps, reading marks, and manuscript notes.

«Piccola, ma sufficiente per li miei studi»: the library of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino. First investigations and census of annotated books

2021-06-16T07:51:18+02:00

The article presents the first results of a research about the library of the Jesuit Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino (1542-1621). The starting point are some unpublished works dedicated to this topic compiled by two Jesuit scholars in the first half of ‘ 900: François Xavier Le Bachelet and Sebastian Tromp. In particular, Tromp’s work had concerned the identification of the editions cited in the library inventory, without however proceeding with the identification of the items actually belonging to the cardinal, today mainly preserved at the National Central Library of Rome and the Historical Archive of the Pontifical Gregorian University. In addition to providing a first analysis of the composition of the Bellarminian collection, the article examines the events related to
its conservation at the Roman College, to which Bellarmino donated it after his death and where on several occasions it was subject to spoliations – even if today it is difficult to evaluate their extent. These episodes testify to the problematic intellectual legacy left by Bellarmino and how it influenced not only
his long process of canonization (which lasted three centuries) but also the conservation of his books. In the appendix, the inventory of the library is published for the first time, as well as a catalog of 122 books with the provenance note of the Bellarmine’s private collection and, in several cases, containing his autograph annotations.

A new attribution to the Maestro dei Putti: an illuminated book of the Attic Nights by Aulo Gellio (Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1472)

2021-06-15T23:46:52+02:00

The paper presents the discoveries about a Venetian incunable studied during the cataloguing activities of incunables at the Regional Library in Catania (2018-2021). The aim of the paper is to inform the academic community about the crediting of the illuminations to the Maestro dei Putti; this results from a collaboration with Lilian Armstrong, professor of Art at Wellesley College, MA and specialist on Venetian Renaissance Book Illumination. This identification enriches the census of incunables with another copy, illuminated by the artist who was active between Venice and Padua in the 70s of XV century.

A rare illuminated normative codex from the Florentine Renaissance: the 1472 Statute of the Confraternity of Santa Maria Assunta in San Pier Gattolino

2021-06-15T23:29:39+02:00

The paper analyses the content of the so far unknown Florentine confraternal statute of the lay company of Santa Maria Assunta in San Pier Gattolino. It traces the history of this church and the brotherhood that produced the statute book in the 15th century, and explains the relationship between text and illuminated images. The report highlights that both the rules and the pictures formed part of an integrated message contributing to the practical application of the laws and increasing the symbolic value of them.

Culture vs. operative intelligence

2021-06-15T22:15:41+02:00

Roberto Raieli, Web-scale discovery services: principi, applicazioni e ipotesi di sviluppo, Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2020

2020-12-19T10:23:49+01:00

Roberto Calasso, Come ordinare una biblioteca, Milano, Adelphi, 2020

2020-12-19T10:16:50+01:00

André Schiffrin, Editoria senza editori, prefazione di Alfredo Salsano, con uno scritto di Andrea Cortellessa, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2019

2020-12-19T10:03:16+01:00

Mauro Chiabrando, Il particolare superfluo. Atlante delle minuzie editoriali, Milano, Luni; [Riva del Garda], Associazione librai antiquari, Italia, 2019

2020-12-19T09:58:48+01:00

Il privilegio della parola scritta: gestione, conservazione e valorizzazione di carte e libri di persona, a cura di Giovanni Di Domenico e Fiammetta Sabba, Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2020

2020-12-19T09:55:15+01:00

Storie d’autore, storie di persone: fondi speciali tra conservazione e valorizzazione, a cura di Francesca Ghersetti, Annantonia Martorano, Elisabetta Zonca, Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2020

2020-12-19T09:50:53+01:00

Viaggi di Toscana, Lezioni magistrali (9 novembre - 12 dicembre 2017), a cura di Maria Fancelli, Firenze, Polistampa, 2019

2020-12-19T09:43:18+01:00

Biblioteche e saperi: circolazione di libri e di idee tra età moderna e contemporanea, a cura di Giovanna Granata, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2019

2020-12-19T09:39:21+01:00

Valentina Sonzini, Cominus et eminus: la tipografia alla campana: annali di Vittorio Baldini e delle eredi (Ferrara, 1575-1621), introduzione di Angela Nuovo, Milano, Biblion, 2019

2020-12-19T09:33:27+01:00

Michele Camaioni, Il Vangelo e l’Anticristo: Bernardino Ochino tra francescanesimo ed eresia (1487-1547), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018

2020-12-19T09:28:44+01:00

Bibliotheken und die Ökonomie des Wissens 1450-1850: Internationale Tagung, April 2019, Sárospatak (Ungarn), édité par Frédéric Barbier, István Monok et Andrea Seidler, Budapest, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtár és Információs Központ, 2020

2020-12-19T09:17:12+01:00

Lorenzo Baldacchini, Il libro antico: storia, diffusione e descrizione, terza edizione, Roma, Carocci, 2019

2020-12-19T08:43:26+01:00

Daniele Danesi - Ilenia Maschietto, Catalogo del Fondo Cesare Grassetti della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Firenze, Olschki, 2020

2020-12-19T08:37:22+01:00

Gli incunaboli della Biblioteca Oratoriana dei Girolamini: un primo catalogo, a cura di Giancarlo Petrella, premessa di Andrea Mazzucchi, presentazione di Vito De Nicola, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2019

2020-12-18T22:01:20+01:00

Paola Errani - Marco Palma, Incunaboli a Cesena, Roma, Viella, 2020

2020-12-18T21:50:22+01:00

Martin Davies - Neil Harris, Aldo Manuzio: l’uomo, l’editore, il mito, Roma, Carocci, 2019

2020-12-18T21:34:31+01:00

My library

2020-12-18T12:14:52+01:00

Giampiero Mughini, journalist and well-known as book collector, writes about the formation of his personal library, also narrating the encounter with important personalities afflicted by a same furor bibliographicus.

Giuseppe Malatesta Garuffi

2020-12-18T11:45:15+01:00

Contrary to the current historiography on the modern European Academies, there is a manuscript N.500 in the Gambalunghian Library in Rimini, that contains the proceedings of an Academy founded in that city in the XIV century, that becomes the first European Academy in the modern times.

«I’ll give a look on the shelves»: case study on reader-opac interactions at the Biblioteca Civica “Vincenzo Joppi”, Udine, Italy

2020-12-18T10:52:51+01:00

Introduction. Users’ behaviour studies relevance shows a constantly increasing trend. Users’ behaviour is the research focus both in libraries and information sciences and in cataloguing. User studies in LIS were developed along four trends: user studies, information behaviour, information practice and information experience (Gonzales-Teruel 2018). With FRBR Report in 1998 and its four user tasks definition, a major shift toward users’ centrality came in cataloguing too. Relevance of user tasks is also underlined by the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP). It confirms FRBR four functions and adds a new one: to navigate. The focus of this research is the effective interaction of users with the OPAC at the Biblioteca Civica "Vincenzo Joppi”, Udine, Italy, with the aim of assessing both efficacy and efficiency of interactions, from the point of view both of the user and of the OPAC.

Method: This paper draws on an original research, as data about a simple random sample of 36 readers were collected by means both of a survey by a questionnaire before and after the interactions and by OPAC transactions screen recordings. Data were collected in Udine public library, Biblioteca “Vincenzo Joppi”, Udine, Italy, between August and October 2017. Quantitative and qualitative data analyses were conducted on collected data about 130 searches (a process that ends with a positive or negative result) and 200 interactions (each of the search attempts).

Results and Discussion: The contrast between use frequency and reader’s proficiency level shows that the more frequent the use, the higher the confidence level felt by reader. On the contrast, confidence level is not related to educational background. Nearly half of the interviewed (49%) search in the catalogue to fulfil personal information needs; any other information needs (teacher suggestions, friends’ advices, internet etc.) are less important. In nearly half of the interactions, the search field used is title; instead, percentage of searches by subject, by author’s surname or by author’s name and surname are all just slightly over 10%. Furthermore, data about search field support data about the two broad types of questions: 60% are known item searches, and just 40% are exploratory searches. The most preferred search approach is Google-like search (36%); advanced search (30%) is relevant, while basic search (12%) is less important. However, the most successful results are obtained by advanced search (67%), followed by basic search (56%) and google-like search (53%). An interesting difference emerges from the contrast between data collected from questionnaires and from direct observations of readers’ interactions with the OPAC: readers express approval or disapproval based on the final results of their overall research and not on single interactions, and take for granted that to achieve results one or more attempts could be needed. Final success depends mostly upon the kind of users’ starting question: known item searches are more successful than exploratory searches (60% versus 43%). Data As a result, data confirm that to perform exploratory searches readers need to be supported by a higher level of reference service. Data show that reasons for failure in searches rely on readers’ behaviour (56%) more than on library services (24%). For this reason, readers’ interactions with the OPAC could be improved by promoting information literacy for the readers.

About the «Bibliotecarj» of Giornale de’ letterati d’Italia

2020-12-18T10:11:03+01:00

Created as a tool for the revitalization and renewal of Italian culture in the eighteenth century, the Giornale de’ letterati d’Italia represents one of the most mature and significant experiences of erudite Italian journalism. The magazine, in volume XXV, presents an accurate system of indexes, among which stands out the systematic one, articulated in 16 classes. The essay, after
an introduction concerning the most relevant structural, content and bibliographical characters of the Journal, proposes an analysis of the contributions classified under Bibliotecarj, with regard to tomes I-XXIV. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, to illustrate the nature and typology of the contents highlighted; on the other, to reconstruct the bibliographical-library orientations and trends associated with the journal and the cultural elites it represents. In conclusion, we will provide three indexes: the first one, articulated in 8 sections corresponding to the different configurations with which the literary evidence found during the research has been categorized; the second will concern the published and unpublished works found; to conclude the index of names.

Giovanni Parè, bookseller and publisher in the second half seventeenth-century Venice

2020-12-18T07:11:24+01:00

The discovery of Giovanni Parè’s publishing and bookstore catalogues, a Venetian printer and bookseller at the end of the Seventeenth century, is an opportunity to reconstruct his activity as a book dealer and the close relationship he had had with Giovanni Palazzi, historian, man of letters, engraver. Parè will publish Palazzi’s some works, many of which affected by censorship control due to the evident influences of the Quietist, current accused by the Congregation of the Index and by the Santo Uffizio as not conforming to the dictates of the Catholic Church.

Isis in Bologna: Hieroglyphica and Aegyptiaca in Bologna's book collections between the 16th and 17th centuries

2020-12-18T06:33:13+01:00

The rediscovery of the ancient Egyptian civilization is a distinctive feature of humanistic culture. This Egyptomania, which extends also to the seventeenth and the subsequent centuries, is well documented in early printed books and focuses on two symbolic objects: the Late Roman treatise on hieroglyphs Hieroglyphica by Horapollo and the Tablet of Isis (Mensa Isiaca), a late imperial age pseudo-Goddess altar. This work outlines the editorial adventures of those publications illustrating and popularizing a textual and graphical corpus that well represents the baroque intellectual imaginary about Ancient Egypt, particularly focusing on antiques collections and editorial activities of a close scholars network in Bologna in the XVII century.

Ancient book heritage and religious libraries. The case of Sardinia

2020-12-18T05:31:10+01:00

The essay studies the presence of the ancient book heritage in the libraries of Sardinia where, apart from the case of the two University Libraries of Cagliari and Sassari, the most important institutions for the presence of ancient collections are the religious libraries. The relevance of religious libraries for library historiography is one of the topics of the disciplinary debate on which, starting from the specificity of the Sardinian reality, it is possible to develop some reflections. The essay underlines the need to also historically address the study of religious collections in relation to the notion of system. The individual realities, often of modest size and strongly rooted at the territorial level, should be understood as local articulations of a complex library organization, not surprisingly based on centrally defined norms, at the ecclesial or religious order level. On this basis, the case of the Capuchin Library of Cagliari is investigated, one of the most important in Sardinia for the number of ancient volumes, seen in the dialectical relationship between local microcirculation phenomena and adherence to the cultural paradigms of the Order.

New discoveries about the Specchio di Illuminazione by Beata Illuminata Bembo

2020-12-17T15:56:57+01:00

The discovery of some fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Specchio di Illuminazione of Beata Bembo in the so-called “Archivio della Beata Caterina”, kept in the Archbishop’s General Archive of Bologna, has opened up new and completely unexpected perspectives on the hagiography of St. Catherine of Vigri, revealing a multiform and complex evolution of this work. Two new editions have emerged, different from the one known so far: one shorter and widely epitomized, the second longer, with significant inserts, concentrated mainly in chapters VI-IX. Based on some significant clues, the author hypothesizes that this drafting chronologically precedes that of the so-called “autograph” and that it has been the subject of a series of second thoughts and complaints by the author herself or her circle. Some 16th century codices have also emerged, witnesses of the drafting known so far, but not without interest. Very recent paleographic studies had questioned the real autography of the edited manuscript. A first examination of the new acquisitions seems to confirm that they do not derive from the “autograph”, presenting several lessons and disjunctive errors.

The library of Alexandria and the fire that did not destroy it. I: Modern reflections up to Justus Lipsius

2020-11-24T10:43:51+01:00

This paper (first of two parts) aims to gather the most important testimonies of modern age authors regarding the Library of Alexandria, so that can be observed how the fire in 47 b.C. is considered. The increasing knowledge of the classical texts improves gradually the historical reconstruction of the event and poses new questions. Some variae lectiones from greek and roman authors are also discussed in order to draw more accurate conclusions. Particularly is examined the probable source of the Isidorus’ strange number (70.000) in Or. VI, 3, 5, concerning the amount of books destroyed by the fire.

The new column Voci di biblioteche viventi

2020-11-24T09:57:40+01:00

Joachim Johann Mader's De scriptis et bibliothecis antediluvianis

2020-06-24T15:41:15+02:00

Joachim Johann Mader's De scriptis et bibliothecis antediluvianis appeared in 1666 as the praefatio of the De bibliothecis atque archivis virorum clarissimorum libelli, the first anthology of treatises on the history of libraries. In his essay, the scholar reconstructs the history of the discovery of the alphabet, writing and the first books. Thanks to the De bibliothecis antediluvianis, Mader completed his anthology with a good piece of news about a mythical period which was not previously well known or studied. Moreover, Mader could give a conceptual framework to the collection.

The history of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies amidst legislative body, research institutions, and librarians devoted to reference services to Members of Parliament and information assistance to external users

Origins and developments of the bibliography in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Part I)

2020-01-27T10:42:14+01:00

Minorum Capuccinorum bibliotheca Bononiae: incunabula and sixteenth-century editions of the Library of the convent of the Friars Minor Capuchin of Bologna

2020-01-27T10:42:14+01:00

The cataloguing of the incunabula and the sixteenth-century books kept in the library of the Minor Capuchin Friars’ monastery in Bologna was carried out, where all the book funds present in the territory, coming from the convents of the entire minority province, have converged over time. The following information is provided on each sheet: the signature, the author, the title, the typographic notes, the format, the language and the provenance, or all the indications retrievable from the cover, guard page, frontispiece (such as handwritten notes, ex libris, seals, stamps) useful for retracing the conservative events of the text. As far as the library is concerned, an investigation was carried out to reconstruct the passage through time of the texts, the origins, the dispersions, which are also fundamental for understanding the culture of the Capuchin family.

Libro d’Uccelli in pictura. A study of manuscript 2 of the Alessandrina University Library of Rome

2020-01-27T10:42:14+01:00

2019-02-01T09:45:49+01:00

In this paper the first report of a cultural enhancement project regarding the ancient and specialized book patrimony kept in the Library of the CNR IRCrES Institute of Genoa. The collection consists of more than two hundred ancient volumes about technical and scientific subjects, a portion of which, about twenty, deals with issues related to mechanics and to energy sources applicable to it. The project involves digitization and systematization in an interactive repository of the ancient volumes, which can be freely read and downloaded from the net by everyone. Thanks to the multimedia technologies, the project entails the implementation of an interactive and user friendly software for reusing the digitized pages. Among the reuse options, it has been implemented a search-way for theme inquiries, for keywords enquiries; besides, animations of the machines drawn within the texts there have been implemented to show and exemplify their mechanics and functionality. The occasion was due to an announcement of the Compagnia di San Paolo, which has funded digitization, the incrementation of the DigiBESS portal and the implementation of the software for the multimedia station.

Spread open knowledge to create new one. Report of the conference “Challenges and Alliances between Libraries and Wikipedia” (Central National Library of Florence, November 10th 2017

2019-02-01T09:45:49+01:00

The paper reports the contents of the conference “Challenges and Alliances between Libraries and Wikipedia”, hosted on November 10th, 2017 by the Central National Library of Florence, which organized the meeting in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the Italian Library Association. The conference confirmed the opportunity for a strong synergy between the library community and the Wikipedian community (represented on this occasion by many members of AIB and Wikimedia Italia) and for a common commitment to the dissemination of knowledge, open access to information and the free reuse of digital resources in the public domain. Starting from the felt need for a regulatory framework on intellectual property that improves free knowledge and the role of cultural institutions, the speakers discussed various forms of interaction with the Wikimedia world, activated by some Italian institutions (BNCF, Municipal Library of Trento, University of Turin) and the peculiar interest that each of the platforms of free knowledge has in the eyes of librarians. Pointed references are to Wikisource (the multilingual digital library, which cotains texts in the public domain), Wikipedia (which already ‘talks’ with the New Soggettario Thesaurus), Wikimedia Commons (where there is an increasing number of digitized resources from libraries) but above all to Wikidata, the free and collaborative knowledge base, enriched in recent times by a large amount of bibliographic data, also thanks to the WikiCite project. This kind of experiments and projects promotes accessibility, research and creative reuse of quality data and resources that libraries produce daily. Finally, the contribution reflects the debate following the talks and the three interesting workshops in the afternoon, a further stimulus to extract the knowledge contained in the bibliographic patrimony and make it available on the web with the contribution of a broad and transversal community.

Enhance cultural heritage through the public domain. The Public domain #open festival of Turin as case study

2019-02-01T09:45:49+01:00

The Urban Library Project on Public Domain is the result of a good practice of interinstitutional cooperation which was ratified by a specific convention between the ‘library systems’ of the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin, the Turin Public Libraries and the Foundation “Teatro Nuovo”. This project aims at promoting and disseminating the concept of public domain to highlight its social, cultural and economic importance. By promoting the knowledge and enrichment of cultural heritage, it is possible to design a ‘public domain supply chain’ which can exploit different cultural and social actions. In its early stage, this project offered people a number of educational and entertaining events which were related to the works of the authors who gradually entered into Public Domain.

2019-02-01T09:45:47+01:00

Bianca Bianconi Tallone passed away, bravely continuer of the manual typographic art. With unpublished photographic apparatus.

2018-07-16T09:16:25+02:00

The language of the cataloguer (part 1). The author

2018-07-16T09:16:24+02:00

The paper analyses the evolution of the language of cataloguing, focusing on the concept of authorship. It evaluates cataloguing principles, rules and theory, from Cutter to ICP 2016, in order to study the modification of the idea of author in cataloguing and the emerging importance of non-authorial responsibilities as access points for the organization of catalogues.

The sixth unwritten law of library science

2018-07-16T09:16:24+02:00

The five laws of library science, written by S. R. Ranganathan in 1928, drastically modified the idea of public library and oriented its evolution, placing the information needs of the reader at the center of its own reason to exist. However, there is a sixth unwritten law, which since 1851 has led the efforts of the international library community. This research draws the path and sets the milestones that identify this law, from Jewett’s Plan for Stereotyping Catalogues to IFLA’s Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) program.

History of the book: observations, subjects and problems

2018-07-16T09:16:23+02:00

Some observations about the exibition “Pompe dei Medici” (Florence, Palazzo Panciatichi, Consiglio Regionale of Tuscany, May 5-7 2017)

2018-07-16T09:16:25+02:00

The presentation of the exhibition about “Pompe dei Medici”, organized by the Tuscan Bibliographic Society, was a useful occasion to emphasize the permanent value of the ancient books exhibitions, and to demonstrate the safeguarding realized by private library collections.

An early intuition of Heidegger. From the Homme plante to the dilemma of music

2018-07-16T09:16:25+02:00

In 1957 Martin Heidegger highlighted how the computer language could be a poor imitation of the human language. The computer, infact, can reproduce only the logical and mathematical skills of the human mind, not the feelings and the ethics. Neither Julien Offray de La Mettrie, who in 1758 theorized the figure of the so called Machine man, had advanced the hypothesis that a machine could reproduce the psychic and intellectual abilities of a human being. This hypothesis is affected by some of the unique characteristics of the human species, among which the sensitivity for music.

The sociological, cultural and scientific evaluation by Johann Georg Meusel in 1799-1800

2018-07-16T09:16:24+02:00

Johann Georg Meusel’s Leitfaden aus Geschichte der Gelehrsamkeit (Leipzig 1799-1800) is one of the most important historical works about European culture at the end of the 18th century. The six sections at the end of the work are of great interest for the history of the eighteenth century and the Illuminism. Meusel realizes in this part of the work a remarkable picture of this period, extremely accurate and astonishingly modern.

The dated Editions 1584 of Pietro Aretino’s Ragionamenti

2018-07-16T09:16:24+02:00

In 1584 John Wolfe printed in London an edition of Pietro Aretino’s Sei giornate, also known as Ragionamenti; a second edition with the same imprint was published by John Windet for John Wolfe around 1597. Four counterfeit books based on these two editions were published in the first half of the Seventeenth Century. A wrong understanding of the bibliographic sources widely regarded as reference books for these editions often led to mistake the Sixteenth Century editions for their counterfeits, and the counterfeits among them. The essay proposes a comparison among those bibliographic sources generally used to identify this group of editions, with the aim of establishing a hierarchy among them; in addition it aspires to complete the task by showing data collected through the analysis of some copies held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Part of the essay concerns a series of studies relating to the identification of Barbagrigia and L’Herede di Barbagrigia whose signatures appear in the John Wolfe’s edition of Ragionamenti, which also includes the Commento di Ser Agresto composed by Annibal Caro.

The German translation of Antonio Santacroce’s La segreteria di Apollo and the contribution of the Georg Muller publisher in Frankfurt to the reception of Italian literature in Germany in the 18th century

2018-07-16T09:16:24+02:00

The publisher Georg Müller in Frankfurt put out eighteen books between 1660 and 1663. Eight were translations from Italian, three of which were Italian literary texts translated by Johann Makle: Boccaccio’s Labirinto d’amore (otherwise known as Corbaccio), Antonio Santacroce’s Segreteria di Apollo and Arcangela Tarabotti’s Semplicità ingannata. The contribution will analyze these translations focusing especially on adaptation for a German Lutheran public and searching for a possible editorial project in Müller’s catalogue.