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THE PROBLEM OF DIGITAL HERITAGE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF PERSONAL ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES

2021-04-08T14:54:02+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, a many documents are formed 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.

Establishing an “Orientalium linguarum Bibliotheca” in 17th-century Vienna.

2021-04-08T11:51:55+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

Factors Affecting Customer’s Interest in Using the Tecnhology of Artificial Intelligence at BankingFactors Affecting Customer’s Interest in Using the Tecnhology of Artificial Intelligence at Banking

2021-03-15T05:12:49+01:00

The VIRA application at a Bank, is an artificial intelligence technology-based application that has been launched to support customer transactions. Data quoted from the official website of Banking states that until 2020, the number of Bank’s customers has reached 22,000,000 customers. However, the use of VIRA according to internal data still includes 1,071,129 customers. According to internal data, VIRA users have decreased every month since February 2020. For this reason, the purpose of this study is to determine "Factors Affecting Customer Acceptance of the VIRA Application.

This study took a sample of 400 respondents who had used VIRA and used SPSS V.24 as data processing tools. The author uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to support this research. The variables studied were the variables of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, discrepancy, efficacy, principal support, personal valance for the desire to use (behavioral intention to use).

The results of this study indicate that there is an influence between perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and personal valance on the desire to use (behavioral intention to use) the VIRA application at Bank.

Acknowledgements in a controversial paper on predatory publications

2021-02-20T05:17:23+01:00

The acknowledgements section of an academic paper generally serves as a way to thank individuals or other entities such as funders that are not directly involved with the research or who have not contributed substantially to its intellectual exploration to merit authorship. It is not clear if acknowledgements are carefully assessed by peer reviewers or editors to confirm their validity, or even if the veracity of claims made in acknowledgements are systematically checked. However, the acknowledgements are a small, but integral, part of an academic paper, and thus represent a portion of that paper’s integrity. This paper examines, in detail, the acknowledgements of a contentious study in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (JSP; DOI: 10.3138/jsp.48.3.137) to exemplify how publishing integrity may be at risk if the acknowledgements carry entities that are not transparently described and that might potentially bias the content of the paper or the judgement of its author(s). We found that many aspects of the acknowledgements of the 2017 JSP paper by Derek Pyne were in breach of stated publisher, institutional, ICMJE and/or COPE recommendations and/or requirements.

Il lavoro tipografico tra edizione, impressione, emissione e stato.

2021-02-18T19:25:31+01:00

Ancora oggi la stampa antica, nonostante i molti studi svolti, continua ad affascinare e a far porre molte domande. L’articolo esamina nella sua prima parte, teorica e introduttiva, il lavoro tipografico della prima stampa, le figure che popolavano l’officina tipografica per poi soffermarsi sulla differenza tra edizione, impressione, emissione, stato e sul concetto di esemplare ideale.

Nella seconda parte più pratico-metodologica si esaminano due esemplari della Biblia Sacra, hebraice, chaldaice, graece et latine Philippi II Reg. Cathol. pietate et studio ad sacrosanctae Ecclesiae usum, più comunemente nota come Bibbia poliglotta conservati nel fondo delle cinquecentine della biblioteca Beato Pio IX della Pontificia Università Lateranense. Tramite l’analisi dei due testimoni si è cercato di far luce sui rapporti di edizione, impressione, emissione e stato che intercorrono tra loro e dunque di capire come tramite una condivisione di sapere tra bibliologia e filologia, tra bibliografia materiale e bibliografia testuale si potrebbero ottenere risultati più concreti e veritieri, sia per quanto riguarda il libro come manufatto che come testo

Italiano Italiano

2021-02-18T19:12:02+01:00

Francesco Lumachi

2021-02-03T12:18:18+01:00

Francesco Lumachi, il piccolo libraio fiorentino che debuttò nel 1900 sulla scena editoriale italiana, nonostante appartenga a una realtà imprenditoriale, quella dei librai-editori, ancorata più al passato che al futuro, si considera abbia inaugurato assieme al nuovo secolo anche il libro moderno. Con intuito e audacia contribuì, infatti, per primo alla notorietà di autori destinati a imporsi nel panorama culturale per qualità innovative, e con raffinato gusto estetico pubblicò volumi di ricercata eleganza tipografica e talvolta anche di forma non convenzionale; da vero “amico dei libri”, come amava definirsi, fu inoltre narratore di amene storie bibliografiche. Una figura sfaccettata rimasta avvolta comunque sempre nel mistero, complice l’indole schiva e modesta, la parabola professionale breve e dagli esiti drammatici, la perdita molto probabile di carte personali e di lavoro. Nel tentativo di colmare il vuoto biografico, il contributo espone i risultati di ricerche d’archivio che scavano per la prima volta nelle radici famigliari e nel percorso scolastico di Francesco Lumachi, un retroterra da cui emergono elementi inediti e allo stesso tempo un ventaglio d’interrogativi suscettibili di ulteriori indagini, assieme a tratti della personalità che trovano punti di contatto in scelte editoriali ed esistenziali, come incongruenze e fascinazioni giustificabili con il contesto storico di riferimento. Il lavoro si avvale inoltre di un corredo iconografico, anch’esso in parte inedito, a testimonianza e riprova degli argomenti trattati.

Biblioteca Digitale, o dell’evoluzione della biblioteca:

2021-02-02T18:05:56+01:00

La Biblioteca Digitale – qui intesa come categoria generale – si propone da tempo di innovare la gamma dei servizi offerti al pubblico dalle “biblioteche analogiche” a una variegata compagine di utenti. Non si pensi soltanto al multiforme scenario delle biblioteche di pubblica lettura (e a un ampio e generalista bacino di utenti), o alle biblioteche delle università (e a un altrettanto ampio bacino di utenti fatto di studenti, tesisti, docenti, ricercatori), ma si guardi anche al mondo delle biblioteche di conservazione, che attirano ad esse un pubblico di nicchia, specializzato, molto spesso di provenienza internazionale. La digitalizzazione del prezioso patrimonio librario antico, manoscritto e a stampa, rappresenta una grande e complessa sfida da molti punti di vista (concettuale, progettuale, realizzativo, logistico, economico, della gestione del personale, ecc.), ma anche la più naturale modalità di cui oggi disponiamo per espandere i servizi offerti all’utenza in forma digitale. Nel (recente) passato molte sono state le iniziative compiute in tal senso dalle singole istituzioni bibliotecarie, come anche da singoli programmi privati o da progetti ministeriali, con esiti altalenanti in termini di obiettivi realmente raggiunti, di effettiva permanenza online e di capacità di contrastare in modo efficace la cosidetta “obsoloscenza digitale” aggiornando l’intera infrastruttura tecnologica del progetto stesso, come anche i singoli contenuti digitali, al fine di garantirne la sopravvivenza. Al giorno d’oggi le tecnologie web based si sono a tal punto evolute, aggiornate e standardizzate da rendere possibile per le biblioteche digitali un nuovo approccio in termini di usabilità, visualizzazione e fruizione multi-piattaforma dei contenuti digitali.

LARASKA'S PROGRAM FOR ARCHIVED SYSTEMS

2021-01-11T07:50:38+01:00

The National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia serves archives affected by the floods in Jakarta Bogor, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Jabotabek) in 2020, and this function is regulated by Law Number 43 of 2009 concerning the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia and Law Number 25 of 2009 concerning Public Services in Indonesia. Family Archives Restoration Service (Laraska) is one of the archives management programs affected by natural disasters. Archival problems often occur after disasters such as fire, flood, or earthquake. Through this research, Laraska focuses on the flood disaster that occurred in Jabotabek in early 2020. This research provides an overview of the implementation of the Laraska program. Collecting data from this study using qualitative methods with descriptive analysis methods. Archives are records of activities or events in various forms and media following developments in information and communication technology that are made and accepted by state institutions, regional governments, educational institutions, companies, political organizations, social organizations, and individuals in the implementation of social life, as a nation and patriotic. While archives are matters relating to archives. By using the method. Laraska Program Implementation, Edward III Policy Implementation theory, namely Communication, Resources, Disposition, and Bureaucratic Structure.

The Reality of the Application of Intellectual Property Legislation on Digital Information Resources at the Libraries of Public Universities in Jordan (dissertation)

2020-12-27T22:20:27+01:00

Despite the scientific and technological development, libraries of Jordanian universities suffer from obvious lack of digital information resources, that because of many reasons, the most important of these is the non-application of intellectual property legislation (IPL) related to these resources. This study investigated the reality of the application of intellectual property legislations on digital information resources at the libraries of public universities in Jordan. The population study consisted of all employees of departments of digital information resources for the academic year (2012-2013). The study sample was (74) employees.

Texts of regulations for the intended libraries and the Jordanian copyright law No. (22) for the year (1992) were reviewed and analyzed. In addition, a questionnaire was developed regarding the actual application of intellectual property legislation relating to digital resources at the university libraries in Jordan.

Results revealed that the application of IP legislation relating to digital resources at the libraries of public universities in Jordan was moderate, and that the supervising to the libraries of universities from the National Library regarding the protection of intellectual property rights of digital resources was moderate. The study recommends the importance of the application of intellectual property legislation relating to digital resources in the intended libraries, this could be achieved through including regulations of public services in the intended libraries to provide for the terms of protecting IP rights for digital resources, and improving the legislation and developing of the Jordanian copyright law compatible with digital information resources, and providing the necessary support for these libraries, and emphasizing the role of the National Library .

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

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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 File di prova

2020-12-16T22:02:48+01:00

This is a file di prova

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

Abstract

Introduzione. L’importanza degli studi sul comportamento degli utenti mostra una tendenza costante in aumento. Esso è al centro delle ricerche sia nell’ambito della biblioteconomia che, in particolare, della catalogazione. In quest’ultimo ambito, la pubblicazione del Rapporto FRBR (1998), con le sue quattro funzioni utente ha contribuito notevolmente a focalizzare l’attenzione verso l’utente. L’importanza delle funzioni utente è stata sottolineata e ampliata (con l’aggiunta della funzione navigare) nei principi internazionali di catalogazione (ICP, 2016) dell’IFLA. Gli studi sugli utenti si sviluppano secondo quattro direttrici: studi dell’utenza, comportamento informativo, processi informativi ed esperienze informative (Gonzales-Teruel 2018). La ricerca ha analizzato le interazioni degli utenti con gli OPAC nella Biblioteca Civica Vincenzo Joppi di Udine, allo scopo di stabilirne l’efficienza e l’efficacia, sia dal punto di vista degli utenti che dell’OPAC.

Metodo: La ricerca si basa su dati originali raccolti su un campione casuale semplice di 36 lettori, sia mediante l’uso di un questionario somministrato prima e dopo l’interazione che tramite la registrazione dell’intero processo di ricerca con un programma di cattura dello schermo. I dati sono stati raccolti nella Sezione Moderna della Biblioteca civica “Vincenzo Joppi” di Udine tra agosto e ottobre 2017. I dati raccolti, relativi a 81 ricerche e 131 interrogazioni, sono stati analizzati con metodo quantitativo e qualitativo.

Risultati e discussione: I dati sul rapporto tra frequenza d’uso del catalogo e livello del lettore, mostrano che maggiore è l’uso, maggiore è il livello di confidenza che il lettore percepisce; al contrario, la confidenza non sembra dipendere dal titolo di studio posseduto.

Il 49% degli intervistati si rivolge al catalogo per ottenere informazioni legate a interessi personali; le altre fonti (indicazioni dei professori, consigli di amici, internet ecc.) passano in secondo piano. Il dato utilizzato per quasi la metà delle interazioni è il titolo; la percentuale di approcci per soggetto, cognome dell’autore o nome e cognome dell’autore si aggira invece a poco più del 10% ciascuno. Questi dati sono in linea con quello relativo al tipo di ricerca: nel 60% dei casi, infatti, le interrogazioni sono finalizzate a individuare oggetti già noti e solo nel 40% sono interrogazioni di tipo esplorativo.

La modalità di interazione preferita è la ricerca semplice (“Google-like”; 36%) seguita dalla ricerca avanzata (30%) e dalla ricerca di base (12%) e il restante 22% è suddiviso nelle altre modalità di interazione. Tuttavia, la percentuale di successo più alta è garantita dalla ricerca avanzata (67%), seguita dalla ricerca di base (56%) e dalla ricerca semplice (53%) (figura 11).

Emerge la differenza registrata – in termini di percezione del successo – tra i dati ottenuti dai moduli e quelli rilevati durante l’interazione con l’OPAC: il lettore percepisce un reale successo o insuccesso soltanto in relazione al risultato finale del processo di ricerca e dà per scontato che per arrivare a un risultato, siano necessari uno o più tentativi (interrogazioni).

Si nota una differenza quantitativa importante tra le interrogazioni di tipo noto, con il 60% di esiti positivi e quelle di tipo esplorativo, con soltanto il 43% di successi. I dati confermano che la ricerca esplorativa è quella che necessita maggiormente dell’offerta di un buon servizio di reference ai lettori.

Infine, le interrogazioni con insuccesso (47%) (figura 12) mostrano che la causa degli insuccessi è rappresentata nel 56% dei casi dal lettore mentre nel restante 24% dai servizi della biblioteca. Il processo è quindi passibile di notevoli miglioramenti, sia con attività di information literacy, sia migliorando le attività di back-office.

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

Abstract

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.

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.

Adopting Block Chain Technologies in Libraries Services

2020-03-29T12:42:08+02:00

Blockchain technology has proven to be an plausible, perhaps miraculous, underpinning for the sale, transfer and tracking of large integers. Libraries need to become adept in blockchain technology to the extent that they want to license, track and lend large integers. Blockchains have been used in a number of different applications ranging from managing a new cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, to using Smart Contracts for coding ways to track transactional data between persons. This paper discusses, the concept of block chain, history, definitions, and various application of blockchain ranging from health, e-commerce, donors with emphasis on the adoption of its technologies by library professionals and libraries for better service delivery. It therefore concludes by recommending that Nigerian library professionals could setup a blockchain website, blogs and webinars to engage researchers, students, and information professionals to harness their inputs towards developing a whitepaper (policy) and promotion of emerging technologies for better services delivery in the libraries adding value to libraries and the community they serve.

Il “Fondo storico G. Maconi” della Biblioteca biomedica dell'Ospedale di Alessandria

2020-03-11T14:59:35+01:00

L’Ospedale “Santi Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo” di Alessandria si costituì nel corso del tempo a partire dalle attività ospitaliere medievali di molte chiese di Alessandria, anche in considerazione del ruolo di piazzaforte militare che la città ebbe fino all’inizio del secolo scorso. Questo percorso interseca quello della crescente importanza che nella medicina (che ha una componente ineliminabile di pratica ed esperienza) veniva riconosciuta allo studio e quindi all’istruzione universitaria e alla produzione libraria. Nel 1902 la Biblioteca dell’Ospedale fu istituita formalmente ed in tale circostanza accolse donazioni libri provenienti dalle biblioteche personali dei medici dell’ospedale. Essi si trovano nel “Fondo storico G. Maconi” della “Biblioteca biomedica” dell’Ospedale e offrono sia importanti spunti di analisi sulla storia editoriale delle opere di medicina (che qui viene delineata per un trattato di chirurgia di Giovanni da Vigo, che ebbe la prima edizione nel 1514 e l’ultima attestata in SBN nel 1685), sia testimonianze di grande rilievo sull’evoluzione del pensiero, della cultura, delle vicende storiche dei tempi in cui i medici dell’Ospedale operavano.

The digitalization of the incunabula of Italy: the Central National Library of Rome from IGI to the Polonski project

The paper offers a report of the advanced training course Contemporary personal libraries: methodologies of acquisition, management and promotion, held at the National Central Library of Rome from 29th to 31st of October 2019. The course has been organised in response to the increasing interest and to the numerous problems related to management, handling and promotion of XX century’s personal libraries. The speeches, given by qualified experts in management, handling, study and analysis of contemporary personal libraries, deal with various topics regarding acquisition, management, presentation of case studies and finally appreciation and promoting. Thanks to institutions’ proponents and to the analysis of case studies, the course has given to attend relevant starting points and practical suggestions for an updated and aware approach to personal libraries.

The use of new technologies: from virtual to pragmatic, the experience of the Luca Pacioli library

2020-01-27T11:13:36+01:00

New technologies have transformed the organization of Public Administration in Italy. Innovations include online services and improved communication with users. Concurrently the concept of formation has changed. Today continuing professional development is vital to ensure that the sector’s human capital remains abreast of innovative work practices and technologies. Libraries are adapting their services to an ever evolving environment, taking on the challenges of the information revolution. The Luca Pacioli Library derwent radical change, eliminating open shelving in 2006. Its adaptive strategies have succeeded in inspiring reading and knowledge creation, and its continuing growth demonstrates its importance in this context. Despite the space reduction and loss of open shelving, thanks to the automated robotic retrieval system, interactive catalog, e-learning platform and elegant space, readers’ information seeking journeys pass from the tangible to the virtual and vice versa. Users have participated enthusiastically in the initiative which asks them to write a review of the book they have borrowed. Published on the e-learning platform, these reviews demonstrate continual commitment to and appreciation of language use.

Sigla Effe, Genoese publisher of Mio padre comandante di Fiume by Mario D’annunzio

2020-01-27T11:13:36+01:00

The collection Carte Tito Rosina, preserved in the Biblioteca universitaria of Genoa, contains the correspondence between Tiro Rosina (a genoese literary man), Ernesto Fassio and Gambaro (the first was the owner and the second the Director of Sigla Effe, a publisher in Genova). In the letters we can find the informations about a book by Mario d’Annunzio. This book is the way to discover Sigla Effe history and production.

Massèra a forgotten librarian

2020-06-15T11:47:49+02:00

The article analyzes the figure of Aldo Francesco Massèra (1883-1928), sixteenth librarian of the Gambalunga Library of Rimini, through the publication of the Proceedings of the Conference held in Rimini and Geneva between 2015 and 2016.

The former San Niccolò psychiatric hospital in Siena: a polymorphic reality between architecture, archive and library

2020-01-27T11:13:36+01:00

Following the closure of the asylums approved by the Basaglia Law, the care of the sick was entrusted to the extra-hospital services set up in public or private hospitals. The heritage of the asylum institutions, which conists not only of the archive, of real estate, of libraries, of museum collections of medical tools and of asylum furnishings, was entrusted to the competent ASL (Local Health Bodies). The sanitary archive of the San Niccolò psychiatric hospital was kept in the premises of the former Chiarugi department, located within the former mental hospital complex in via Roma. It consists of a total of 1916 pieces, which cover a continuous chronological period from 1819 to 2003. In 2003, however, the ASL of Siena decided to donate the Library of San Niccolò to the Faculty of Medicine of the city to avoid dispersing the huge library heritage. The archive as well as the library of the San Niccolò of Siena psychiatric hospital allow us, through the knowledge of the institution’s history, to recover the real experience of the doctors, nurses and patients who
populated the asylum.

2020-01-27T11:13:35+01:00

La digitalizzazione degli incunaboli d'Italia: la Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma da IGI al progetto Polonski

2020-01-14T17:48:45+01:00

Fin dal 1932 la Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma ha sviluppato una specifica vocazione per il censimento e lo studio degli incunaboli in una prospettiva nazionale. Essa infatti è titolare della direzione di IGI - Indice generale degli incunaboli d'Italia che, pubblicato dal 1943 al 1981, ha costituito uno dei più innovativi e completi progetti europei di repertoriazione del patrimonio bibliografico del secolo delle origini della stampa. A seguire la Biblioteca è stata il referente italiano per i progetti ISTC - Incunaula Short-Title catalogue e Incipit della British Library. Recentemente ha avviato, in collaborazione con il CERL e grazie al contributo della Polonski Foundation di New York, un nuovo progetto di digitalizzazione degli incunaboli a partire dal cospicuo fondo della Biblioteca di S. Scolastica di Subiaco, culla della stampa italiana, attraverso metodi e procedure innovative che permettono una ricerca a tutto tondo sugli esemplari trattati, attraverso uno specifico portale e la partecipazione ad altri progetti correlati, quali MEI, Text-Inc e 15cIllustration.

La Abteilung für Sondersammlungen della Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol a Innsbruck Breve saggio su storia, status quaestionis e progetti aperti

2019-09-16T17:40:12+02:00

Il presente articolo delinea la storia della Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol a Innsbruck (ULB Tirol) dalla sua fondazione nel 1745 fino al periodo delle relazioni con la Leopold-Franzens-Universität di Innsbruck fondata nel 1669.

Della attuale ULB Tirol si presentano le principali attività, i compiti specifici, le responsabilità, i fondi conservati, il numero di utenti e la divisione in sezioni speciali, con particolare riguardo a quella di Manoscritti e Rari (Abteilung für Sondersammlungen). Si dà conto dei lavori d’inventariazione e di catalogazione realizzati negli ultimi cinquant'anni, dei risultati conseguiti e delle nuove prospettive di ricerca. Si presentano tre progetti che si svolgeranno nei prossimi anni e saranno dedicati ai manoscritti.

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

The article proposes an examination of the data obtained from the inspection of the book lists coming from 51 monasteries or convents in the Lucanian area and produced as part of the great survey carried out at the behest of the Congregation of the Index between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. The focus is on the publishing informations extrapolated from the bibliographic descriptions surveyed, in an attempt to define an essential map of the editorial presence in the monastic libraries of Basilicata and compare it with the general trend that emerges from the various studies published in the last decade.

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

The manuscript 2 of the Alexandrine University Library in Rome, coming from the personal library of the last Duke of Urbino, Francesco Maria II Della Rovere, preserves inside about 300 color plates of birds and real and fantastic animals, all inserted in an extremely refined naturalistic context, in excellent condition. The sixteenth-century binding, richly adorned on the plates and on the back with allegorical and phytomorphic motifs inserted inside a geometric frame. The aim of the research was to reconstruct its history, starting from all those non-textual elements, of which the code is totally devoid, which identify the most properly physical-material aspect. Through the analysis of the paper and the watermark, of the binding and its ornamentation,and finally the opening coat of arms of the codex, it was possible not only to date it precisely but also to identify the workshop of origin and discover the one who orders its manufacture and that is the Bolognese natural scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi. A precious gift for the Duke Francesco Maria II who will become his patron, supporting him economically in the print of his scientific works.

Languages, Codes and Information

2020-01-27T10:42:13+01:00

Principi di database preservation: strategie e soluzioni

2019-05-18T23:10:20+02:00

Il contributo esamina lo stato dell'arte della conservazione a lungo termine dei cosiddetti Database Management Systems (DBMS) con uno sguardo rivolto alle esperienze sia nazionali che internazionali. Una prima sezione è dedicata alle strategie di intervento che hanno impegnato i professionisti delle memorie digitali e gli archivisti nelle operazioni di recupero e conservazione di banche dati attraverso modalità di emulazione dei sistemi, migrazione dei formati e normalizzazione dei dati. La seconda sezione, invece, illustra le principali soluzioni, sia open source che commerciali, presenti nel contesto delle applicazioni e formati standard di digital preservation come: SIARD (Software Indipendent Archiving Relational Database), DBTPK (Database Preservation Toolkit), DBML(Database Markup Language), ADDML( Archival Data Description Markup Language), SDFP (Standard Data Format for Preservation), CHRONOS, HPAIO (HP Application Information Optimazer)

Contea Principesca di Gorizia e Gradisca, 1873-1914: creazione e analisi di un corpus digitale di periodici nel loro contesto storico.

2019-06-24T19:46:00+02:00

Le biblioteche digitali consentono non soltanto di migliorare la conservazione dei documenti e di facilitarne l’accesso da parte degli utenti, ma anche di sperimentare nuovi metodi; ad esempio è possibile esaminare in tempi ridotti le relazioni statistiche tra i contenuti di migliaia di documenti, operazione pressoché inaccessibile ai metodi tradizionali. Il passaggio chiave resta quello della conversione dal supporto analogico, carta o microfilm, a quello digitale, includendo la trasformazione delle immagini del testo stampato in testo digitale: solo così è possibile analizzare statisticamente quei testi, analisi che del resto non può prescindere dal contesto storico della loro produzione e da altre fonti.

In questo articolo, descriviamo in dettaglio il processo di creazione di un corpus digitale formato dai giornali italiani pubblicati a Gorizia tra il 1873 e il 1914. Questo include la digitalizzazione, l’estrazione del testo editabile, il processo di annotazione e l’analisi statistica delle risultanti serie temporali. I dati così ottenuti vengono comparati con un corpus di giornali sloveni stampati nella stessa città e nello stesso periodo, già digitalizzati dalla Biblioteca Nazionale Slovena. L’analisi delle 47.466 pagine di giornali italiani ci consente di dimostrare il tipo di informazioni che possono essere estratte da un corpus digitale, evidenziando l’importanza di operare all’interno di un contesto storico e comparativo. Questo esempio di umanistica digitale plurilinguistica ci consente di individuare le tracce statistiche di profonde transizioni culturali che hanno avuto luogo in un’area geografica e un periodo storico molto complessi, il cui studio non può prescindere da una particolare attenzione alle trasformazioni culturali, tecnologiche e sociali.

MINORUM CAPUCCINORUM BIBLIOTHECA BONONIAE: INCUNABOLI E CINQUECENTINE CONSERVATI NELLA BIBLIOTECA DEL CONVENTO DEI FRATI MINORI CAPPUCCINI DI BOLOGNA

2019-02-19T18:04:15+01:00

I metadati bibliografici in Wikidata: Wikicite e il case study di Bibliothecae.it

2019-02-15T13:27:21+01:00

Negli ultimi anni l’attenzione del mondo bibliotecario volto ai progressi della tecnologia Linked Open Data e ai progetti Wikimedia si è concentrata su Wikidata, la base di conoscenza secondaria, libera, collaborativa e multilingue formata da dati interpretabili sia dall’uomo che dalle macchine. L’infrastruttura di Wikidata si è rivelata perfettamente compatibile all’attuazione di un'iniziativa che mira a costruire un vasto database di citazioni bibliografiche di qualità in linked open data: WikiCite. Nell'ambito di tale iniziativa, molti sono i progetti nati dalle collaborazioni fra la Wikimedia Foundation e le biblioteche, fra cui la Biblioteca Nazionale di Svezia, la Biblioteca Nazionale del Galles e la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

Anche il Centro Bibliotecario di Ateneo dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno ha partecipato attivamente all’iniziativa, inserendo i metadati bibliografici della rivista Bibliothece.it. È il primo esempio italiano e fra i primissimi al mondo di corpus relativo ad un periodico scientifico di ambito bibliografico-biblioteconomico interamente caricato in Wikidata.

È stato messo a punto e sperimentato un workflow semplificato, con l’utilizzo di vari tool che hanno permesso di automatizzare una buona parte del processo.

L’inserimento permette l'utilizzo di tali dati in qualsiasi progetto o programma che impieghi la tecnologia LOD, nell’ottica di agevolare l'interscambio fra risorse culturali e soddisfare i bisogni informativi dell’utente finale. In ambito bibliografico e biblioteconomico, tale azione rappresenta un nuovo modo di creare e condividere i dati bibliografici, di fare information retrieval e di condurre le analisi bibliometriche.

2019-06-13T10:24:03+02:00

Il cortocircuito della biblioteca pubblica

2019-01-04T11:07:39+01:00

2018-07-26T21:21:35+02:00

Academic publishing is undergoing a highly transformative process, and many rules and value systems that were in place for years are being challenged in unprecedented forms leading to the evolution of novel ways of dealing with new pressures. One of the most important aspects of an integrated and valid academic literature is the ability to screen publications for errors during peer review to weed out mistakes, fraud and inconsistencies, such that the final published product represents a product that has value, intellectually, and otherwise. It is difficult to claim the existence of perfect manuscripts. The level of errors that exist in a manuscript will depend on the rigor of the research group and of the peer review process that was used to screen that paper. When errors slip into a final published paper, either through honest error or misconduct, and are not detected during peer review and editorial screening, but are spotted during post-publication peer review, an opportunity is created to set the record straight, and to correct it. To date, the most common forms of correcting the literature have been errata, corrigenda, expressions of concern, and retractions. Despite this range of corrective measures, which represent artificially created corrals around pockets of imperfect literature, certain cases do not quite fit this mold, and new suggested measures for correcting the literature have been proposed, including manuscript versioning, amendments, partial retractions and retract and replace. A discussion of the evolving correction of the literature is provided, as are perspectives of the risks and benefits of such new measures to improve it.

In memory of Armando Petrucci

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

History of a book project. “Patrimonio culturale, ingegno e tecnologia: dall’energia muscolare all’energia atomica verso l’energia pulita e rinnovabile” in the CNR IRCrES books

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

The rare books collection of the Faculty of Law of Cagliari preserves about 60 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century editions showing the mark of ownership «ex libris Bibliothecę Raphaelię», placed normally after the title page. This is the largest number of editions with an ex libris (already sporadically found in some others volumes), mainly of legal interest, belonging to several private collections of contemporary scholars and bibliophiles. The ex libris refers to the library of the Marquis Raffaelli of Cingoli that in 1915 was sold at auction by the antiquarian bookseller Rossi of Rome, and was therefore dispersed. Based on a documentary research, the essay illustrates the most relevant episodes in the history of the library which, at the end of the eighteenth century, stood out in the context of the Marche cultural institutions and whose destiny is intertwined with some prominent figures in the panorama of the early twentieth century antiquarian trade. These ones include Ildebrando Rossi son and heir Dario Giuseppe, who bought the library from the Raffaelli family in 1913 and produced a partial sales catalog; Cesare Olschki who was in those years opening a branch of the Florentine bookshop in Rome and who in Ildebrando would find a guide for starting his own business; Attilio Nardecchia from which, in 1916, the volumes, now in the Faculty of Law of Cagliari, were acquired. The protagonist of this acquisition was Filippo Vassalli, professor of Roman law at the University of Cagliari, as part of a policy of developing the library of the institution, in turn animated by the conviction of the centrality of university libraries in the Italian library system.

Information, this unknown

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

Tracce di una 'antica ed importante' Biblioteca: la Biblioteca dei Marchesi Raffaelli di Cingoli

2018-05-17T14:32:30+02:00

Il fondo antico della biblioteca della Facoltà giuridica di Cagliari conserva circa 60 edizioni, tra cinquecentine e secentine, nelle quali è possibile rilevare la nota di possesso «ex libris Bibliothecę Raphaelię», apposta di norma nella pagina successiva al frontespizio. Si tratta della traccia numericamente più cospicua di un ex libris in realtà già sporadicamente affiorato nella catalogazione di alcuni volumi, prevalentemente di interesse giuridico, appartenenti a diverse raccolte private di età contemporanea. La nota è riferibile alla raccolta libraria dei marchesi Raffaelli di Cingoli che nel 1915 venne messa all'asta dalla libreria antiquaria Dario Giuseppe Rossi di Roma, finendo quindi dispersa. Sulla base di una ricerca documentaria il saggio illustra i momenti salienti della storia della biblioteca che, alla fine del '700, spiccava per la sua importanza nel tessuto delle istituzioni culturale marchigiana ed il cui destino si intreccia con le vicende di personaggi di spicco nel panorama del commercio antiquario di primo Novecento. Tra questi Ildebrando Rossi, figlio ed erede dell'attività avviata da Dario Giuseppe, che acquisì la biblioteca dai Raffaelli nel 1913 e ne produsse un parziale catalogo di vendita, Cesare Olschki che stava in quegli anni aprendo a Roma una filiale della libreria fiorentina e che in Ildebrando avrebbe trovato una guida per l'avvio della propria attività, e Attilio Nardecchia da cui, nel 1916, furono acquisiti i volumi ora conservati presso la Facoltà giuridica di Cagliari. Protagonista di questo acquisizione fu Filippo Vassalli, allora docente di Diritto romano presso l'ateneo sardo, nell'ambito di una politica di sviluppo della biblioteca dell'Istituto giuridico, a sua volta animata dalla convinzione della centralità delle biblioteche universitarie nel sistema bibliotecario italiano.

In margine ai recenti “Annali” oraziani e a proposito di una miscellanea scolastica parigina

2018-05-02T08:40:16+02:00

L'articolo, prendendo le mosse dalla recente pubblicazione degli Annali oraziani a cura di Antonio Iurilli, individua un gruppo di 39 edizioni non censite da quello studio e presenta una prima analisi su una miscellanea ora alla Houghton Library, contenente 21 edizioni a stampa, tra le quali alcune oraziane, fittamente postillate: si tratta di un volume utilizzato in due istituzioni scolastiche parigine tra il 1565 e il 1567.

I libri dei Cappuccini a Roma nel XVI secolo

Gianmarco De Angelis, “Raccogliere, pubblicare, illustrare carte”. Editori ed edizioni di documenti medievali in Lombardia tra Otto e Novecento, Firenze, Firenze university press, 2017

2018-01-29T13:14:20+01:00

Information-documentation building in the francophone area: report from the 11e Colloque international d’ISKO-France 2017

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

This paper presents the memories of the 11e Colloque international d’ISKO-France 2017. From the report of the conferences, sessions and the problematizations made throughout the event, it demonstrates the importance of Francophone thinkers to the construction of information-documentation. The experience has provided a space for exchanges between researchers from many countries, as well as highlighting the diversity of topics and approaches that are transversal to the Knowledge Organization (KO). The contributions of the colloquium should not be interpreted in a linear way, but rather in a temporal and associative way. In order to do so, it is essential for the KO to consider the historical path that precedes it in order to formulate an interdisciplinary strategy consistent with the scientific, political and institutional objectives of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).

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.

2017-10-31T09:34:45+01:00

Negli ultimi anni la storiografia italiana ha registrato una discreta attenzione al fenomeno della censura in epoca moderna, in particolar modo concentrandosi sul rapporto esistente tra gli Indici emanati dalla Chiesa e la società italiana. Sono qui analizzate e confrontate diverse monografie che a partire dal 2005 hanno trattato l’argomento rispetto ai secoli XVI-XVII, per delineare la direzione e le tendenze dell’indagine storica odierna. Si offre una rassegna comparata dei lavori di G. Fragnito, U. Rozzo, V. Frajese, F. Barbierato, E. Rebellato, M. Sabato, M. Cavarzere, S. Landi, R. Savelli, M. Infelise.

Caduti alcuni schemi che avevano affetto la ricerca durante il ‘900, gli studiosi si sono aperti all’analisi seguendo forme nuove e dando risalto a particolari prima poco analizzati, come il processo di formazione dei diversi Indici, il rapporto con i poteri politici della penisola, le divergenze all’interno delle Congregazioni e l’effettiva incidenza che ebbero le proibizioni su diversi strati sociali del paese. Il centro dell’attenzione è spesso rivolto alla fase di ‘normalizzazione’ della situazione piuttosto che a quella della repressione violenta cinquecentesca; un posto particolare è riservato allo studio dei meccanismi istituzionali e al funzionamento della censura. Molto ribadita è la suddivisione in classi di lettori, con gradi di libertà differenti.

Si sono notate due tendenze generali nei testi: una che descrive l’impegno delle strutture censorie come progetto unitario e coerente di controllo della società; l’altra che invece mostra le fratture all’interno della stessa Chiesa negli obiettivi e nei modi della censura. Si auspica una maggiore apertura alla storiografia straniera, il confronto con la quale potrebbe fornire apporti determinanti agli studi italiani; l’apertura potrebbe essere estesa anche ad altri rami della storia, non solo a quella del libro. In appendice si trova l’elenco delle monografie italiane analizzate.

Valorizzazione dei fondi privati in una biblioteca accademica: divulgazione, comunicazione, ricerca

2017-10-05T09:58:41+02:00

La biblioteca accademica E.R. Caianiello, appartenente al Centro Bibliotecario di Ateneo dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno, conserva numerosi fondi privati, nella maggior parte definibili come biblioteche d’autore. La relazione si concentra sulla loro valorizzazione attraverso tre percorsi integrati e sugli approcci utilizzati.

Il percorso divulgativo è stato sviluppato attraverso la collaborazione ai progetti Wikimedia, con la creazione di un gruppo di lavoro GLAM che ha arricchito Wikipedia, Wikidata e Commons di contenuti relativi ai fondi speciali, attraverso la rielaborazione di fonti autorevoli e l’utilizzo di immagini e dati dall’archivio aperto dell’Università di Salerno e da altre risorse aperte e riusabili nel web.

Per la comunicazione, sono stati utilizzati i profili social della biblioteca, formulando un piano editoriale nel quale l’hashtag #fondispeciali veicola le informazioni relative alle collezioni private, dalla descrizione bibliografica al link della voce Wikipedia del possessore.

Per la ricerca biblioteconomica, il 26 maggio 2016 è stata organizzata la giornata di studio “Biblioteca di biblioteche”, patrocinata da AIB Campania e Wikimedia Italia. Fra i temi trattati, la gestione delle donazioni di biblioteche private in contesto accademico e le prospettive di conservazione digitale e di valorizzazione tramite progetti Wikimedia e social media. L’evento ha inaugurato una mostra biobibliografica, per la quale sono state selezionate tre biblioteche d’autore appartenute a personaggi significativi per l’Università di Salerno, e una biblioteca di famiglia, prezioso unicum delle raccolte di Ateneo.

I processi di valorizzazione hanno generato una ricaduta positiva in molteplici ambiti: dalla produzione di nuovi contenuti culturali referenziati e open access all’incremento della fruizione del patrimonio bibliotecario comune, dalla creazione di reti collaborative con altri enti culturali alla formazione continua del personale coinvolto nei progetti.

Translating for the Common Reader An Ongoing Research on Science and Education in the Italian Book Trade, 1865-1903

2017-07-26T06:14:02+02:00

2018-02-22T16:45:10+01:00

A commentary published in «Nature» by Jeffrey Beall called for the ban of “predatory” journals from the scientific record. That call for a ban was deeply flawed since the lists on which the term “predatory” were based, were themselves flawed. Many papers published in such journals are valid, having been peer reviewed, and acting in an academically responsible manner, making Beall’s call unfair, and discriminatory. Beall’s blog served as a useful alert system, but in no way were Beall’s black lists, which failed to indicate precise inclusion criteria for each entry, validated by scholars around the globe, much less suitable for use in any policy-making. Even though the Beall blog suddenly went blank on January 15, 2017, with no explanation to the public by Beall, the lists continue to be flaunted as de facto publishing black lists by several academics and websites.

Funds and Collections of the person and personality in archives, libraries and museums: a resource, an opportunity

2018-02-22T16:45:10+01:00

The paper will present the detailed account of the Conference Funds and Collections of the person and personality in archives, libraries and museums: a resource, an opportunity, held in Bologna, at the University, October 26, 2016. The Conference was structured in nineteen reports and a final round table and involved librarians, archivists and museum professionals on the treatment of ‘cultural archives’: those cohesive and varied collections, gathered by people during their professional life, or simply out of passion and then given to public or private institutions. The presentation of projects and experiences implemented by various cultural institutions, not only by type but also by institutional affiliation, allowed the large audience to become aware of the Italian mature reflections on this topic. The event was also an opportunity for discussion between traditionally distinct professionals in order to create an advantageous ‘transversal’ dialogue about the management of cultural heritage.

Encyclopedia and library in the contemporary age

2018-02-22T16:45:09+01:00

With the publication of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, which dates from 1751, the concept of library is declined in a negative sense, as a closing tool and impediment in the hands of the State, compared to the Encyclopedia, considered the book of the people. The constitution of the public library (the british Public Libraries Act is dated 1850), funded with public money, determines to change and both realities, Library and Encyclopedia, begin to interact contributing to the development of contemporary culture. Such as the Library, the Encyclopedia also supposes a work of organization of knowledge through classifications. From this point of view, both institutions seem closer in a purpose that unites them. In view of the information revolution, the Library should help reduce complexity of digital information and should play, against the vastness of the network, a role similar to what the Enlightenment Encyclopedia has assigned to itself in the face of large library collections, which were seen as points of accumulation, and also as points of the knowledge’s dispersion.

Libraries, Archives, Museums

2018-02-22T16:45:09+01:00

During the ancient period, Libraries, Archives and Museums had the same name, because they were the home of the Muses, but over the centuries, the three institutions have diversified. The museums display individual specimens; libraries and archives predominantly preserve and offer library objects and documents. While the manuscripts are kept, generally, in individual pieces, the books, after the invention of printing, exist in multiple copies, but there is no general bibliographic map to find specificity, duplication, or deficiencies. The digitization of works and editions of the past aggravates the problems of organization and bibliographic mapping, because it provides the sources of consultation and indexing, but ignores the imposing mass of written materials that represented the documentary basin of different ages, and who they are scattered in towns and historic European libraries.

Armanino lithography, typography, chalcography: first notes and documents

2018-02-22T16:45:09+01:00

The paper is about the work of the Armanino, a Genoese family that worked in typography, lithography and chalcography. This renowned Genoese company was compared with similar businesses from Milan, Turin, Venice, Bologna and Trieste. The life of Armanino’s forefather is an example of a man who starts from nothing and builds his fortune trough hard work, energy and caution. With his death, the business passed to his wife and sons who, continuing it, confirmed the family’s talent in business. In 1905 the company changed the company name in S.A.I.G.A. (Anonymous Industries Association Graphic Arts and related), becoming an association. The objective of the research, while retracing this family’s history, is to highlight some fundamental characteristics of certain techniques, and the iconographic peculiarity. This study shows that most of Armanino’s production is based on illustrated material, graphic documents, portraits, posters, advertisements, postcards, match- stick boxes, and playing cards.

Subiaco libraries

2018-02-22T16:45:09+01:00

The chronicles of Subiaco not cite Sweynheym and Pannartz, and such silence does not find motivation, when you consider that in Subiaco libraries are preserved many editions that the two Germans have printed in Subiaco and in Rome. An imprecise memory of their stay in the Subiaco is only starting from 1630. The lists of manuscripts and incunabula of libraries, although they reported more numbers because of mergers of libraries, allow you to identify the editions of the two pioneers of the press. At Subiaco the first significant enhancement of incunabula collections occurred between 1777 and 1780 during the government of abbot Giuseppe Giustino Di Costanzo in St. Scholastica. In 1467 he gift to Pope Pius VI a copy of the De Civitate Dei of St. Augustine stored in the library. The pope thanked by donating to the monks a silver chalice and encouraged them to court litigation. In the appendix are transcribed documents concerning relations between St. Scholastica and the Papal See.