Bibliothecae.it

Giorgia Di Marcantonio, Claudio Pavone nello specchio delle sue carte. Il fondo documentario presso l’Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2023

Federico Valacchi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Federico Valacchi, La verità di carta. A cosa servono gli archivi?, Perugia, Graphe.it, 2023

Samantha Profili — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Concetta Damiani, Gli archivi dell’arte. Gestione e rappresentazione tra analogico e digitale, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2023

Elisabetta Zonca — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Gli archivi delle biblioteche: esperienze e questioni, a cura di Concetta Damiani, Loretta de Franceschi, Pierluigi Feliciati, Macerata, EUM, 2023

Federico Valacchi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Ferruccio Diozzi, L'innovazione in biblioteca, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022

Pierluigi Feliciati — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Le ontologie bibliografiche. Modelli concettuali e vocabolari condivisi per l'universo bibliografico, a cura di Maria Teresa Biagetti, Roma, Bulzoni, 2022

Carlo Bianchini — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Sara Dinotola, Le collezioni nell’ecosistema del libro e della lettura. Nuovi modelli di valutazione, organizzazione e comunicazione, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2023

Alberto Salarelli — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Attilio Mauro Caproni, La bibliografia culturale (ovvero non è facile parlare di sé). Attilio Mauro Caproni dialoga con Mauro Guerrini con alcune domande di Alfredo Broletti, a cura di Massimo Gatta, Macerata, Biblohaus, 2022

Fiammetta Sabba, Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Lucia Sardo, Fiammetta Sabba, I fondi personali e le biblioteche accademiche. Il caso dell’Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Roma, Bulzoni, 2022

Roberta Cesana — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Chiara De Vecchis, «Sono stato anche bibliotecario». Eugenio Montale al Gabinetto Vieusseux, presentazione di Laura Desideri, Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2021

Graziano Ruffini — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Alberto Cevolini, L’ordine del sapere. Un approccio evolutivo, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2022

Giulia Crippa — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Francesca Nepori, I frati cappuccini tra letture e librarìe, Imola, La Mandragora, 2023

Silvia Tripodi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Németh Gǻbor, Padǻnyi Biró Mǻrton könyvtǻra, Monok Istvǻn bevezetésével, Budapest, Magyar Tudomǻnyos Akadémia Könyvtár és Informǻciós Központ et Kalligram, 2022

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Rosa Parlavecchia, I libri antichi di Antonio Muñoz nelle biblioteche della Fondazione Giorgio Cini. I, Milano, Ledizioni, 2023

Domenico Ciccarello — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Elena Gatti, Francesco Zambrini tra filologia e bibliografia, postfazione di Giuseppe Frasso, [Dueville], Ronzani, 2023

Stefano Cassini — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Incunaboli ad Agrigento I. Biblioteca Lucchesiana e Biblioteca del Seminario Arcivescovile, a cura di Alberto Bellavia, Domenico Ciccarello, Vito Fortezza, Cristina Angela Iacono, Giovanna Iacono, Simona Inserra, Marco Palma, Roma, Viella, 2022

Concetta Damiani — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Lorenz Böninger, Il mercato del libro nella Firenze del Rinascimento. La bottega del cartolaio Benedetto di Giovanni e la lite per l'eredità di Peter Ugelheimer. Studi e documenti, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2023

Graziano Ruffini — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Tiziana Plebani, Alle donne che niente sanno. Mestieri femminili, alfabetizzazione e stampa nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Venezia, Marsilio, 2022

Valentina Sonzini — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Giovanna Murano, La biblioteca arabo-ebraica di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2022

Saverio Campanini — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Yann Sordet, Histoire du livre et de l’édition. Production et circulation, formes et mutations, postface de Robert Darnton, Paris, Albin Michel, 2021

Luca Rivali — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Piero Scapecchi, Il lavoro del bibliografo. Storia e tecnica della tipografia rinascimentale, Firenze, Olschki, 2023

Ilenia Maschietto — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Books and home library. Interview by Fiammetta Sabba (June-August 2023)

Dacia Maraini, Fiammetta Sabba — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Alberto Petrucciani (♱ 10 September 2023)

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

After Le Monnier: Alessandro Manzoni’s contributions to copyright law

Paolo Traniello — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The paper aims the influence that Alessandro Manzonim had on the drafting of law no. 2215 of 2 April 1865 on the legal regulation of the author’s right, even though the father of I promessi sposi had never personally taken part in parliamentary work.

Library collections in the perspective of US “critical librarianship”

Francesco Giuseppe Meliti — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This article aims to offer an overview of collections from the perspective of Critical Librarianship or, for short, CritLib, whose principles have been applied in the United States to all types of libraries and all their functions. Last years in the US library sector attention has increasingly turned towards topics relating to “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”, identified precisely through the acronym DEI or EDI, with a line of studies, research and a certain “activism”, to increasingly reflect, in terms of services and collections, not only the diversities of their communities, but even the social justice.

History of publishing competition, between series policies and market strategies

Roberta Cesana — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Bruno Pischedda’s new book is a thoroughly documented and compelling examination of the editorial series and market strategies implemented by Italian publishers in the contemporary age. It offers us a history of the book industry as an industry. While it addresses many questions that have long remained unanswered in historiography.

Free culture from the mud (flood in Romagna, 2023): libraries to be saved

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This paper offers an overview of what happened after the Romagna flood of 2023 in four libraries (Trisi in Lugo, Manfrediana in Faenza, Borghi in Castel Bolognese and Forli’s Seminary). It focuses on the work of the volunteers which aimed to recovery the institutions as soon as possible. In particular,
the point of view of the authors is that of students of the Library and Archive science master’s degree at the University of Bologna. They acted to support the libraries offering a qualified intervention; in fact, they managed saved books and the related catalogues. After the narration of what happened during and after the flood, there are some interviews at the librarians the authors worked with. These surveys allow to put the student’s work into a wider context which evolved and is still evolving.

Stratifications, fragmentations and dispersions: bibliographical notes for a reasoned history of the Library of Liceo Classico and Musicale «F. Petrarca» in Arezzo

Maria Chiara Milighetti — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This essay traces back the genesis, the bibliographic stratification and the history of the Library of Liceo Classico and Musicale «F. Petrarca», in Arezzo, starting from the constitution of its original core, attributable to the Library of the Jesuit College, founded in 1687. A complete survey of this first nucleus, now kept in the Library of the «City of Arezzo» was carried out thanks to ex libris and ownership notes. An attempt was therefore made, within this nucleus, to isolate the main donors (Francesco Redi (1626-1697) e Anton Maria Bonucci (1651-1728)). The library subsequently passed to the Vallombrosani (1773) and then to the Scolopi (1816), enriching itself with new entrances but it was also subjected to a slow dispersion due to the Grand Ducal and Napoleonic suppressions of the religious orders. Finally the original nucleus of the Jesuits passed to the Library of Royal Convitto «Vittorio Emanuele II» and from there, in the 1980s, to the Library of the «City of Arezzo». However, an ancient nucleus still survives in the current Library of Liceo «F. Petrarca», a mapping of which is here provided.

Greek printed editions from a Turinese monastery in the National University Library of Turin

Erika Elia — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Greek printed editions from a Turinese monastery in the National University Library of Turin. The paper contains a first enquiry into the collection of early Greek printed books of the National University Library of Turin. It starts with the description of three volumes of the 16th century, which were owned by the monastery of Santa Maria di Piazza in Turin and until now have remained almost “hidden” in the Library. Each book contains a few quite rare editions: three Menaia printed in Venice by Andrea Spinelli and edited by Gregorios Malaxos and Vasileios Valeris (1558 and 1551). Comparisons and a first survey of the collection allowed the identification of other Greek printed books from the monastery. The same 16th century binding of the first three codices is found also in another volume with the same provenance, a Typikon published in 1545 in Venice by Giovanni Antonio and Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio (edition by Andronico Nuccio). Moreover, two other Greek printed books from Santa Maria di Piazza were identified in the collection, both printed by Aldus Manutius. Without a catalogue or specific studies, only a systematic survey of the printed editions of the National University Library will allow to outline the characteristics of the book collection of Santa Maria di Piazza, also bringing to light a possible interest within the monastery towards Greeklanguage and culture; such research will also offer more information for the history of the acquisitions of the National University Library of Turin.

«Questa sie la resone de li libri che se fano del choro di Sancta Maria del Popolo»

Lucrezia Signorello — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Entrusted in 1472 by Sixtus IV della Rovere to the Observant Augustinian Congregation of Lombardy, the Roman church of Santa Maria del Popolo and the adjoining convent underwent a veritable renaissance from that time onwards, which involved not only the architectural structure of the complex, but – among other things – also its book equipment. After outlining a historical framework of the convent at the end of the 15th century and focusing on the liturgical-musical apparatus of the Augustinians of Piazza del Popolo, the contribution presents some news of interest for the study of the choir library taken from the surviving documentary sources, the current composition of the collection now in the General Augustinian Archive and some initial reflections on two graduals whose decoration is proposed to be attributed to the Master of the Barbo Missal. Finally, there is a brief report on an illuminated cutting from the choir library of Sant’Agostino in Siena, preserved in the Central Library of the Augustinian Province of Italy in Viterbo and included, together with the choir books from the Florentine convent of Santo Spirito and those from Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, in a cataloguing campaign promoted by the Augustinian Province of Italy and supported by the National Commission “Indici e Cataloghi delle Biblioteche italiane” and the Vatican Apostolic Library.

Department Digital Library: from a collector of digital resources to a tool for research, teaching and the third mission

Paolo Bonora, Lucia Giagnolini, Alessandra Di Tella, Francesca Tomasi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The article presents the evolution of the Digital Library of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna (DL FICLIT) as a case study of the transition from a digital repository to a tool for research, teaching, and dissemination in the digital ecosystem. Designed to publish the department’s digital collections, initial requirements have progressively been expanded and the ability to integrate content with critical contributions emerged. Additionally, there has been a growing request to offer targeted reading perspectives for different user profiles. This prompted a reconsideration of the DL’s role beyond implementation, management, and maintenance methodologies, identifying its renewed role in the department’s activities in the coming years. This resulted in changes to the DL’s editorial process, new requirements for the software platform, and a multi-year development program. A program involving several players: lecturers and researchers, technicians and librarians, students, and the public. By reframing the path taken so far, and displaying the program for the future, the article aims to contribute to the debate on the role that the DLs of Italian university departments will be able to assume in the emerging Cultural Heritage ecosystem that the Ministry of Culture foresees with the National Digitisation Plan.

Information and causation: two enigmas clarifying each other

Riccardo Ridi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Information and causality are two central concepts in many disciplines, both very controversial, with respect to which the article offers an overview of the main interpretations and definitions available, with particular attention to those that relate them to each other, sometimes explaining causation with information and sometimes the reverse. Among the theories of information, the ‘qualitative’ ones (which also take into consideration the semantic aspects of information) and the ‘integrative’ ones (which try to find a common root for the various forms that information can take) are especially examined, with particular regard for that of the DIKAS pyramid (data, information processes, knowledges, awarenesses, self-awarenesses). From the analysis of DIKAS and other theories of information and causation (also in the light of the concepts of informational neutral monism, of the principle of sufficient reason, of entropy and of difference) the strong link between the concepts of information and causality emerges, which can be useful to make both clearer.

The Archive of the University Library of Cagliari: formation, organisation and structure of administrative correspondence (1870-1955)

Andrea Pergola — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The Biblioteca Universitaria di Cagliari archive, formerly the subject of census activities, is now only partially ordered and lacking in finding aids. By examining the regulations that affected the Library from its promotion (1764) to the adoption of the Regulations for Government Public Libraries (1885), examining the administrative correspondence (1870-1955) and studying the classification and preservation practices adopted during the 19th century, this paper aims to contribute to the study of the archival history of the institution in order to foster future activities of reorganization and description of the Library’s documentary heritage.

Observations on the Pezzana-Panizzi correspondence kept at the Palatina Library in Parma

Paolo Marenghi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Panizzi, a student at the University of Parma, was a frequent visitor to the Palatine Library and there he met Angelo Pezzana. In a thorough analysis of the correspondence held between the two librarians, preserved today in the Parma library, emerged how much the relationship between them was based on great esteem, admiration and respectfulness,but also on common their historical-bibliographical interests and attention to the quality of the collections. The letters between the two, dating beck from 1838 to 1859, bear the witness of exchanges of volumes, personal favors and mutual requests for texts aimed at increasing their respective libraries. Panizzi and Pezzana shared the same passion for the historical- bibliographic culture but had a different conception of the bibliological and cataloging dimension. Most of the documents cited, described or transcribed here are inedited.

Catalonia-Italy round trip: Documentary contamination in the funds of some scholars, booksellers and antiquarians

Lorenzo Sergi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The study of private documentary complexes, with a strong collecting characterisation, becomes a stimulus to fathom the deep links that exist between different and geographically distant institutional contexts. In this specific case, the bibliophile tendencies of some Catalan erudites and booksellers present points for reflection above the theme of the dispersion of sources produced in Italy. Analyses above the relationship between the two peninsulas can thus become an opportunity to gather some clues above the reconstruction of the origins of archival and book materials. With this in mind, the paper - starting from two cases concerning collections preserved in Barcelona - seeks to present some results of an articulated research experience.

…nelle nozze del serenissimo don Francesco Medici gran duca di Toscana; et della sereniss. sua consorte la sig. Bianca Cappello… The two contemporary editions of Raffaello Gualterotti

Valentina Sonzini, Rebecca Piacentini — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

In 1579 the Giunta printers published in Florence two coeval editions of Raffaello Gualterotti’s Feste nelle nozze. The contribution presents the peculiarities of the two publications with, in the Appendix, a special focus on the etchings that accompany the second edition.

The library of Saint-Sépulcre Abbey of Cambrai in the 15th century: Management and organisation of the library heritage

Sara Pretto — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The article outlines the organization of the library of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Sépulcre in Cambrai in the 15th century, studying the manuscripts coming from the monastery in that period. In the 15th century, the community resumes strongly its copy-activity: this is probably connected to the emergence of new forms of spirituality, as the modern devotion, which promoted the transcription of the texts corresponding to the new religious needs. The author traces how the community increases its library, describing the organization of spaces and how the volumes were placed; moreover, she reveals the presence of tools for consultation and research. Although there aren’t proofs of the loan service, the author brings to the light how the library was a dynamic reality, in connection with the main institutions of the city and open to the surrounding area.

The library of Alexandria and the fire that did not destroy it. II: The 17th and 18th centuries

Luca Tiberi — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

In this paper we deal with some XVII and XVIII centuries studies on the Library of Alexandria. Some of the most important contributions here considered are André Schott’s corollarium to the Lipsius’s Syntagma (1606), Gronovius’ Exercitationes academicae de Museo Alexandrino (1699), Bonamy’s Dissertation historique sur la bibliotheque d’Alexandrie (1736) and Christian Daniel Beck’s degree thesis entitled Specimen historiae bibliothecarum Alexandrinarum (1779). These studies on one hand review the ancient testimonies on the library - widened up by Galenus’ significant passages - on the other investigate the classical authors with a more severe philological method, drawing very precise conclusions. Most impostant achievements are: Museum and library, treated until then as two separate institutions, are now seen as a one, the library being part of the Museum, in consideration of its subordinated role, subject to the information needs of the Museum members. In this view more and more difficult is to place the caesarian fire, widely made responsible by the classical tradition to have burnt the library, while no damage is done to the Museum. Finally the contribution of the ancient topography of Alexandria begins to be of primary importance to sustain the literary tradition data, which undergo the conclusive examination of the archaeological point of view.

Editorial

Fiammetta Sabba — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Ranganathan and the social role of Bibliography

Carlo Bianchini — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The term Bibliography in a title of one of Ranganathan’s works (Physical Bibliography for Librarians) is unusual, because it occurs only in two other volumes that Ranganathan dedicates to reference service, and curious, because for the disciplinary field of libraries Ranganathan is famous for having spread the expression Library science. The presentation dwells on the meaning of Social bibliography and develops it in two directions: the relationship with other disciplines that deal with books, and the analysis of the concept of the book as a trinity consisting of a soul, a subtle body and a gross body. Ranganathan’s reflection on the concept of Bibliography leads him to emphasise once again the ever contemporary dimension of the library as a social institution.

A living library: Padma Shri S.R. Ranganathan (1892-1972), the Sole Architect of Indian Library Movement

Mohinder Partap Satija — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The application of Linked Open Data to the creation of book numbers

Caterina Licul — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The research starts from some questions left open by a previous study, which had demonstrated the possibility of creating in an automated way the class numbers of the Colon Classification of some works of Italian literature. The article examines the entire process of creating book numbers - an additional part to the class number envisaged by the Colon Classification - starting from the extraction of the necessary data from the Primo catalogue of the University of Udine and, by means of SPARQL queries, from the endpoint of data.bnf. fr. It is then shown how, through the use of the OpenRefine software, the data were organised and the notation of the publications examined was created. The research thus confirmed the possibility of automated or semi-automated creation of class numbers for works and demonstrated the feasibility of creating book numbers.

The origins of the Reference: analysis and development of the service

Paolo Cucchetti — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This paper analyzes the origins and development of the reference service and how it has become the most important practice within libraries. Through a historical investigation that begins in the second half of the nineteenth century and continues beyond the middle of the twentieth century, the diffusion of this activity in its various components and ramifications is outlined, focusing on the application differences present in the various types of library institutions. The research analyzes the causes that led to the birth of this activity, which has completely revolutionized the way of perceiving libraries and their work. Using the sources of the main authors who have dealt with this topic, it is possible to understand the growth of the concept of “assistance” towards readers, its various extensions and above all the consequences that these ideas had on the evolution of the image of libraries within the society.

Library geopolitics: Camerani, Ranganathan and the democratic reconstruction of the AIB

Enrico Pio Ardolino — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Starting from 1933, when the first Italian review of a work by Ranganathan signed by Vittorio Camerani (1898-1961, librarian of the International Institute of Agriculture) appeared on the pages of «La Bibliofilia», there was a fruitful relationship between them. It was in particular on the proposal of Ranganathan, with the crucial intermediary of Camerani and Francesco Barberi, that the 17th Session of the IFLA and the Congress of the FID could take place in Rome in September 1951 (and this proved decisive for the return of the AIB in IFLA after the events related to the war). Ranganathan, as known, did not take part in the events and so far any stay in Italy had remained unknown. Also thanks to unpublished documents preserved in the AIB archive, the report studies the relationship between Ranganathan and Camerani and light up on the very brief episodes of the librarian in Italy carried out during his European travels.

Ranganathan’s Legacy and Implications of The Five Laws of Library Science on School Librarianship: An Exploratory Study

Luisa Marquardt, Raj Kumar Bhardwaj — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged school libraries, affected their services and activities in many ways and led to changes, such as, for instance, reduced opening hours and services, library spaces transformed into a classroom, closures, but also the development of digital collections and delivery of remote services. In such a complex and ever-changing context, the school librarians’ educational role might have been challenged as well. A sound preparation both in education and library science constitutes a steady basis that helps face and overcome disruptions and change. The outstanding works of S.R. Ranganathan are widely recognized for their innovative contribution to library and information science, including school librarianship. In his book New Education and School Library: Experience of half a century (1973), Ranganathan points that the school library is central in the learning and teaching process; its program and several components promote reading, educate to information, inspire and enable users to become critical thinkers and responsible citizens. The Five Laws of Library Science apply to the field of education and school librarianship, too. This contribution aims at presenting an overview of Ranganathan’s legacy in the school library context and, in particular, the relevance of The Five Laws of Library Science in the nowadays’ school librarianship, based on the findings from a self-responding questionnaire, that was distributed through library associations’ list-servs and administered online in March April 2022. Although limited in number, the respondents (28 in total from different continents, except Africa) provided data, comments, and reflections that constitute the basis for further investigation and actions.

Ranganathan between philosophical and epistemological dilemmas: around the problem of Library Science “scientificity” in the 1930s

Gustavo Saldanha — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This paper is to carry out a debate on Ranganathan’s epistemological and methodological dilemmas at the beginning of his bibliographic production in Library Science in the 1930s. As a consequence, the paper point out some interpretations of a given Brazilian hermeneutic about Ranganathan’s work. Our interests are mainly to contribute to the understanding of the philosophical and epistemological role of Ranganathan’s thought. The results demonstrate Ranganathan’s philosophical-epistemological relevance, from logic to pragmatics, from deductive constructions to the social and cultural theories of Library Science. Ranganathan’s philosophy allows us to go from the transcendental plane to the plane of action – from philosophy to the epistemological scheme of a field (its scientificity), to its empirically proven theories (the praxis that transforms reality through the scientific method). It is, therefore, a political philosophy of Library Science, oriented towards the horizon of a documentary democracy.

Ranganathan and international professional associations

Lucia Sardo — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This paper aims to analyse Ranganathan’s involvement in international professional associations; specifically, it will look at his contributions within IFLA and the Indian scholar’s activity within FID (Fédération Internationale d’Information et de Documentation). Although Ranganathan’s involvement in IFLA initiatives is mainly related to cataloguing issues, there is no lack of more general reflections on the role the international association should play and its positioning in relation to ‘non-Western’ countries. His participation in FID, on the other hand, is characterised by his active involvement in the creation of FID/CA, FID Committee on Classification Theory.

Between scientific communication, document science and information science: Ranganathan and documentation in the 1950s and 1960s

Giulia Crippa — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The post-World War II years represent a moment of international reflection on the concept of Documentation, due to the technological-scientific impulse and the constantly growing informational phenomena. Already in 1934, the discussion was outlined by Otlet, giving rise to reflections destined to channel the interests of librarianship and the nascent science of information. An analysis of the process of Ranganathan’s elaboration of the concept of Document and Documentation is proposed in order to understand how the author positions himself, in the rich dialogue involving eminent voices in the field of documentation, from Otlet (1934), Briet (1951) to neo-documentation theorists, in an attempt to better historicize his contribution to the development of Information Science.

The concepts of Document and Documentation from the perspective of Ranganathan

María Arminda Damus — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This work, presented in May 2022, at the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the death of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972), takes as its starting point the book Documentation: genesis and development, published in 1971. This book is the result of a conversation that Ranganathan had with young librarians in Bangalore, India, in 1970. The purpose is to reconstruct the central concepts contained in his work, which are the document and Documentation, from the conception of a Ranganathan at the end of his days, whit a wealth of experiences, memories and trips.

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan’s “Library Tour” (1948): the construction of the Indian librarian self through a ‘tour of the West’

Fiammetta Sabba — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

The paper analyzes the most consistent travel testimony transmitted by Ranganathan, that relating to his journey in Europe and America in 1948. Through the analysis of the editorial and content structure of the Library Tour, the following aspects will be illustrated: the type of experience or history conducted from the Indian librarian, the planning and conduct of this travel, the professional and scientific reflections that this allowed him, in particular on library science and librarianship, thus responding to the expectations of an Indian government eager to justify and consolidate the independence achieved also through the training sectors and information.

A Conference in memory of the 50th anniversary S.R. Ranganathan’s (1892-1972) death (Cremona, University of Pavia, May 23rd, 2022)

Carlo Bianchini, Lucia Sardo — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Jean-Yves Mollier, Storia dei librai e della libreria dall’antichità ai giorni nostri, traduzione di Alberto Bracci Testasecca, con un saggio di Elisa Marazzi, Roma, E/O, Bologna, NW consulenza e marketing editoriale, 2022

Erica Bertelegni — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Gabriella Giannachi, Archiviare tutto. Una mappatura del quotidiano, traduzione italiana a cura di Elisa Dalgo e Flavio Iannelli, Roma, Treccani, 2021

Elena Gonnelli — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Paola Castellucci - Sara Mori, Suzanne Briet nostra contemporanea. Con la prima traduzione italiana di ‘Qu’est-ce que la documentation?’ (1951), Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2022

Lucia Sardo — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Maria Teresa Biagetti, La scienza dell’informazione. Identità ed esperienze, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2022

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Culture e funzione sociale della biblioteca: memoria, organizzazione, futuro. Studi in onore di Giovanni Di Domenico, redazione a cura di Anna Bilotta, Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2022

Domenico Ciccarello — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Vincenzo Trombetta, La stampa a Napoli nell’Ottocento. Una storia per generi editoriali, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 2022

Giancarlo Petrella — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Ranieri Varese, Materiali per lo studio della produzione a stampa nella Ferrara del XVIII secolo, postfazione di Maria Gioia Tavoni, Bologna, Pendragon, 2022

Valentina Sonzini — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Erika Guadagnin, La ‘Philosophia’ nella Grande Galleria. Un modello bibliografico per reimmaginare le collezioni dei duchi di Savoia, Milano, Ledizioni, 2022

Fiammetta Sabba — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Il patrimonio culturale della Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna e della città allo specchio dei viaggiatori europei. Esplorazioni tra la prima modernità e l’era contemporanea, saggi e catalogo a cura di Chiara Conterno e Fiammetta Sabba, con la collaborazione di Andrea Moroni ed Elisa Pontini, Bologna, Bologna University Press, 2022

Loretta De Franceschi — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Paola Zito, Granelli di senapa all’Indice. Tessere di storia editoriale (1585-1700), seconda edizione rivista e aggiornata, Macerata, EUM, 2021

Francesca Nepori — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Dennis Duncan, Indice, storia dell’. Dai manoscritti a Google, l’avventurosa storia di come abbiamo imparato a orientarci nel sapere, traduzione di Chiara Baffa, Milano, UTET, 2022

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Erasmo da Rotterdam, Paralleli ovvero Similitudini, a cura di Carlo Carena, testo latino a fronte, Torino, Einaudi, 2022

Francesca Nepori — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Lorenzo Baldacchini, Il mio lungo viaggio tra libro antico e biblioteche, Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2021

Valentina Sestini — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Le Bibbie dei Valdesi. Le collezioni delle biblioteche valdesi di Torre Pellice e Roma, a cura di Marco Fratini, Lorenzo Di Lenardo, Stefania Villani, Torre Pellice, Centro Culturale Valdese, 2021

Lorenzo Mancini — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Books that talk to each other

Lucio Gambetti — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

“Le biblioteche dei musei e le biblioteche come musei”: a seminar as part of RO.ME - Museum Exhibition (National Central Library of Rome, 16 November 2022)

Sara Dinotola — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This contribution provides a brief report on the papers presented during the seminar entitled “The libraries of museums and libraries as museums”, held in the afternoon of November 16, 2022 at the Sala Macchia of the National Central Library of Rome, promoted and organized by Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura of the Compagnia di San Paolo as part of RO.ME – Museum Exhibition.

On the border of some correspondences: Teresa Lodi in Florence after World War II among papyri, manuscripts and ancient books

Francesca Aiello, Simona Inserra — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The paper intends to deepen, through the study of published and unpublished correspondence and through the analysis of the relationships with some librarians and scholars of the time, the role of Teresa Lodi (1889-1971), librarian and director of the Laurentian Library. In particular, the management of purchases, the conservation and the use of papyrus and parchment materials and books in general are analysed.

The Digital Living Archive and the construction of a participatory cultural memory in the DARE-UIA project (Digital Environment for collaborative Alliances to Regenerate urban Ecosystems in middle-sized cities)

Giulia Cardoni, Francesca Fabbri, Alessandro Iannucci — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Living Archives perform a function of social memory sharing, which contributes to building social bonds, communities, and identities. This potential lays in the ability of Living Archives to put together an archival function, which allows with the conservation and transmission of memory, with an artistic, performative and creative function linked to the present. As part of the DARE-UIA (Digital environment for colaborative alliances to regenerate urban ecosystem in middle-sized cities) project, the creation of a living digital archive made possible to create a narrative that would consolidate the cultural memory of the Darsena district of the city of Ravenna. The aim of the project is to stimulate the urban regeneration of a suburban area of a city, enhancing its cultural memory and identity heritage, through digital heritage tools. The methodology used involves various digital storytelling actions necessary for the overall narrative using georeferencing systems (GIS), storymaps and 3D reconstructions for a transversal narration of historical content such as personal and institutional historical photos and to enhance the industrial archeology heritage of the neighborhood. The aim is the creation of an interactive and replicable narrative in similar contexts to the Darsena district in Ravenna. The Living Archive, in which all the digital contents are inserted, finds its manifestation towards the outside with the form of a museum spread throughout the neighborhood, making the contents usable on smartphones via QR codes and totems inserted on-site, creating thematic itineraries spread around the neighborhood. The construction of an interactive and engaging digital narrative has made possible to enhance the material and immaterial heritage of the neighborhood by recreating the community that has historically always distinguished it.

From bibliometric indicators to qualitative analysis: the valorisation of peer-review in the evaluation of scientific research

Maria Teresa Biagetti — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The use of bibliometric indicators, and in particular of the Impact Factor of journals in evaluating the scientific production of researchers, has recently been subjected to international review, highlighting the need to reconsider the peer-review activity as a procedure that allows to recognize the different activities connected to the research of scholars. The article discusses some reports published internationally – DORA, The Leiden Manifesto, Report of the European Commission of 2021 – and highlights the significant connection between good evaluation practices and the Hong Kong Manifesto, dedicated to research integrity and the ethics of research evaluation.

NATO Archives Online: a source system for the history of international relations

Maddalena Valacchi — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This article aims to evaluate the nature, structure and potential of the digital archives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) not only from the archival point of view but also for their usefulness in the frame of the history of international relations. The first part of the work deepens the context of the history of international relations, starting from the definition of the discipline and then reflecting -in a general way- on the types of archival sources available in this regard. In this sense, it will be proposed a brief review of the historical evolution of the concept of diplomatic sources, analysing their characteristics and fields of application in relation to the nature of the different producers involved. Then the work shifts to the specific physiognomy of the NATO archives, focusing on the profile of the producer and the characteristics of the digital documentary material available. In this paragraph, therefore, we try, first of all, to provide an exhaustive description of NATO, from its historical origins to its legal evolution, up to the role it plays today in a post-Cold War world. Subsequently, a description of the funds available online is provided. This description is supplemented by the elements necessary to evaluate and allow the use of these sources both from a technical-archival point of view and from that of the history of international relations. Finally, the last part reflects on the physiognomy of a web-based archive and on the potential that it could expresses, highlighting opportunities and critical issues.

Virtual exhibition: a return to the past

Klaus Kempf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Exhibitions have become increasingly important for libraries and many of them consider exhibition activity as part of their core business. Digitisation and the digital transformation phase have further reinforced this trend. Virtual exhibitions can compensate for many of the disadvantages that traditional exhibitions had, and at the same time offer all the advantages related to the Internet: they can be viewed and visited anywhere in the world and at any time, they have significantly lower costs with regard to the problems of transferring, and securing for transfer, the authentic works to be exhibited, and they tend to be and potentially permanent exhibitions. Examples of virtual exhibitions include the bavarikon portal, which has been developed and operated by the State Library of Bavaria for almost 10 years with increasing success. In this case we are faced with a return to the common origins of libraries and museums and at the same time with the emergence of a new form of cultural transmission, based on images, figures, iconic representations, i.e. what has been called the iconic turn for some years now.

Martino’s Fragments: a personal library and its emblematic story

Oscar Nalesini — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The personal library of Martino Mario Moreno, a diplomat who worked in the Italian colonies and became a scholar of Semitic and Cushitic linguistics, as well as of Islam and Arabic literature, has undergone a troubled history, marked by the fate of the institutions that have received it each time. The article presents this story, and attempts at putting back together the volumes which formed Moreno’s personal librray, and partially reconstruct his personal relationships on the basis of ownership marks, dedications and other information recovered from his volumes.

For science and pleasure: archival sources for the study of thermal libraries

Elena Gonnelli — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

In Italy, spas boast a centuries-old tradition, yet it is only in relatively recent times that they have been organised and structured as true spa enterprises. Enterprises with production axes differentiated over time, which flank the well-being of the body with recreational activities for the spirit and which are building an accurate infrastructural network. Witnesses to this union, which has changed over time, are the papers produced by the public or private spa organisations themselves. These are complex archives, still to be studied and explored in depth, but which present peculiar characteristics and broad polysemies. They are treasure troves of memories that contain papers intrinsically connected to book and museum collections: in some cases, true hydrological libraries are born and preserved within the establishment. The documentary sedimentation of Montecatini Terme will offer, in this sense, an interesting and unique case study to observe the peculiarities of these collections from the inside. The contribution briefly traces an institutional historical analysis of thermalism and, starting from the reference context, aims to thoroughly investigate the connections existing between these archives and libraries.

From «misero avanzo di sorci» to «tesoro»: The Arezzo Cathedral Chapter Archives between the 18th and 20th centuries

Riccardo Neri — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Between Eighteenth and Twentieth century the archive of Arezzo Cathedral’s Chapter is object of many operations of documents’ tidying up by the canons themselves. At the beginning they provide the archival material with inventories in order to easily find all that documents able to uphold the Chapter’s rights in case of juridical controversies, then they recognize the cultural value of their documentation and so they start to promote historical studies based on it. Afterwards the canons obtain many other funds, especially as consequence of French suppressions or by private initiative, and then they establish specifical rules for documents’ safeguard and fruition, always according to The Holy See’s legislation. The essay shows the phases and the protagonists of all those processes of production and conservation of the archival material related to Arezzo’s Cathedral Chapter’s between Eighteenth and Twentieth century, but it also contains references to the period between the origins of the Chapter in the Ninth century to the first Eighteenth century and to the current situation.

Universalis or Selecta? The classification of books on architecture at the time of printing: contribution to an analysis

Alfredo Giovanni Broletti — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The aim of this paper is about the books on architecture recorded in the two main Renaissance repertories Bibliotheca universalis and Bibliotheca selecta, to bring out the role of architectural treatises in the Renaissance bibliographic vision between the cosmology of knowledge, the topographical characteristics of knowledge and the tradition of knowledge. The analysis is considered between the architectural context and the bibliographic context where different visions of the architectural discipline build up a piece of the history of culture such as Historia literaria.

Dated and datable codices from the 15th-16th centuries in two “minor” Milanese collections: heterogeneous materials preserved at the Fondazione Trivulzio and the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano

Elisa Bianchi — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The article shows an overall overview and relative cataloguing records of the 16 codices dated and datable to the 15th-16th centuries mainly kept in the Archivio della Fondazione Trivulzio (serie Codici Sciolti) of the private library of the Trivulzio family, and in the Biblioteca e Archivio della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano (Fondo Manoscritti). Paragraphs 2-4 present a summary of the codicological and cultural-historical data obtained from the analysis of the catalogued manuscripts, also clarifying the criteria for selecting the manuscript material. After a brief historical contextualisation of both library collections, catalogue records of the 16 selected manuscripts are finally presented.

The inquisitor and his readers: the case of the Malleus maleficarum

Paola Zito — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Starting from the case of the best-known manual of demonology published in the modern age, the Malleus maleficarum by Heinrich Krmer and Joakob Sprenger published for the first time in Strasbourg between 1486 and 1487, the paper studies the presence of the main treatises and works on demonology in the libraries of Italian religious orders between the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the following century. The RICI (Research on the Inquiry of the Congregation of the Index) database is examined as a privileged source, which contains the lists of books sent to the Congregation of the Index on the occasion of the inquiry promoted by the Holy See.

Artificial intelligence vs. intellect (i.e. cybernetics vs. computer science)

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Salvatore Renna - Federico Valacchi, Le avventure di Archinia, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2021

Eleonora Todde — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Oltre le mostre, a cura di Mauro Brunello, Valentina De Martino e Maria Speranza Storace, Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2020

Rosaria Campioni — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Attilio Mauro Caproni, Il coraggio di sapere: la bibliografia e il suo infinito intrattenimento, a cura di Filippo Puddu, prefazione di Piero Innocenti, Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2021

Chiara De Vecchis — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

La trasmissione della conoscenza registrata: scritti in onore di Mauro Guerrini offerti dagli allievi, a cura di Carlo Bianchini e Lucia Sardo, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2021

Paolo Tinti — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Annalisa Capristo - Giorgio Fabre, Il registro: la cacciata degli ebrei dallo Stato italiano nei protocolli della Corte dei Conti 1938-1943, prefazione di Michele Sarfatti, con un saggio di Adriano Prosperi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018

Francesca Nepori — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Irene Piazzoni, Il Novecento dei libri: una storia dell’editoria in Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2021

Roberta Cesana — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Lucio Coco, La Biblioteca di Dostoevskij: la storia e il catalogo, Firenze, Olschki, 2021

Roberta Cesana — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I periodici settecenteschi come luogo di comunicazione dei saperi: prospettive storiche, letterarie e linguistiche, edited by Fabio Forner, Franz Meier e Sabine Schwarze, Berlin, Peter Lang, 2022

Andrea Moroni — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Andreea Mȃrza, Portretul unui iluminist ardelean Bibliotecarul Imre Dániel (1754-1804), Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2020

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Lire en Europe: textes, formes, lectures (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle), sous la direction de Lodovica Braida et Brigitte Ouvry-Vial, avec la collaboration d’Elisa Marazzi et Jean-Yves Samacher, Rennese, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020

Christian Del Vento — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

La biblioteca: crocevia e connessione di mondi, a cura di Camilla Del Grazia e Linda Fiasconi. Pisa, ETS, 2021

Enrico Pio Ardolino — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Marina Roggero, Le vie dei libri: letture, lingua e pubblico nell’Italia moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021

Daria Parenti — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

De bibliotheca: di libri, di uomini, di idee, a cura di Gianluca Montinaro, Firenze, Olschki, 2020

Enrico Pio Ardolino — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Glagolitsa: studi slavistici di Storia del libro in Italia, a cura di Alessandro Scarsella, Milano, Biblion, 2021

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Dizionario dei tipografi e degli editori italiani: il Cinquecento, diretto da Marco Menato, Ennio Sandal, Giuseppina Zappella, Volume II, a cura di Marco Menato, Trieste, Libreria Antiquaria Drogheria 28, 2020

Francesca Nepori — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Incunaboli a Cagliari, Bianca Fadda [et al.], Roma, Viella, 2021 (Francesca Nepori)

Francesca Nepori — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Incunaboli a Ragusa, Lucia Catalano [et al.], con la collaborazione di Giuseppe Barone [et al.], Roma, Viella, 2019

Lorenzo Mancini — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Inter prima artis incunabula: catalogo delle edizioni quattrocentesche della Biblioteca Diocesana di Lugano, a cura di Luca Montagner, Lugano, Biblioteca diocesana, 2021

Piero Scapecchi — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Crossing borders, crossing cultures: popular print in Europe (1450-1900), [edited by] Massimo Rospocher, Jeroen Salman, Hannu Salmi, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019

Erica Bertelegni — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500: fifty years that changed Europe, edited by Cristina Dondi, Venice, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2020

Paolo Sachet — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Federica Formiga, L’invenzione perfetta: storia del libro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2021

Elisa Marazzi — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Maria Gioia Tavoni, Storie di libri e tecnologie: dall’avvento della stampa al digitale, Roma, Carocci, 2021

Giorgio Montecchi — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Con Leonardo da Vinci a Bologna: atti del convegno, Bologna, 15 maggio 2018, a cura di Rosaria Campioni, Bologna, Comune di Bologna, 2019

Margherita Melani — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Dante e la Divina Commedia in Emilia-Romagna: testimonianze dantesche negli archivi e nelle biblioteche: VII centenario della morte di Dante Alighieri (1321-2021), a cura di Gabriella Albanese et al., Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2021

Chiara Reatti — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Shelf knowledge

Antonio Castronuovo — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The first JLIS.it Seminar: Modeling knowledge, archival and bibliographic standards compared (University of Florence, 19 May 2022)

Lorenzo Gobbo — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

On Thursday, May 19, 2022 the SAGAS department of the University of Florence hosted the first seminar of the journal JLIS.it on the theme: Modellare la conoscenza, standard archivistici e bibliografici a confronto. Numerous interventions by academics, librarians, computer scientists and archivists. The report of the day.

The IFLA Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals

Valentina Sonzini — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

In 2020 the IFLA Rare Book and Special Collections Section (RBSC) published the Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals. The guidelines are divided into five chapters and are intended as a white paper for all librarians dealing special collections. The document focuses on the figure of the librarian, his interactions with the collections owned by the cultural institution in which he works, his relations with the users. A remarkable tool especially from the point of view of professional ethics, the IFLA standard defines ideal situations to which documentation professionals can look for the strengthening of their knowledge.

The archive beyond the archive

Mario Aldo Toscano — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The publication of Federico Valacchi’s book, Gli archivi tra storia, uso e futuro: dentro la società (Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2021) it is an opportunity to reflect on the role of archives and archivists.

The analysis of cartographic resources in the FRBR and IFLA LRM conceptual models: a survey of the studies

Laura Manzoni — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Since the publication of the Functional Requirementes for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in 1998, the world’s leading experts on cataloguing cartographic resources have questioned the possibilities of applying the conceptual model to cartography. They tried to understand how cartographic resources could be treated in the context of an entity-relationship model, focusing on the possibilities of applying Group 1 entities and FRBR’s relations to cartography. The debate that followed led to the establishment of conflicting positions. Many of the criticisms made to FRBR also apply to IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM), the new conceptual model, published in 2017. While showing some improvements it seems to fit forcibly into the description of cartographic resources.

Search behavior on University of Bologna discovery tool: a quantitative and qualitative analysis

Maura Quaquarelli — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

This article has the purpose to identify the most common search techniques of patrons in a discovery tool and if the discovery is able to provide relevant answers to the queries. This study reports on the use of EBSCO Discovery Service of Bologna University, called AlmaStart. The analyzed data refers to 8 months, from January to April 2020 and from January to April 2021. This period allowed to verify if search behavior changed over time and if the closure of the libraries due to coronavirus lockdown affected it. The data, collected by Google Analytics, are analyzed through the use of the software Microsoft Excel and Atlas.ti, a tool for the qualitative analysis and categorization of textual data. The quantitative analysis refers to all collected data, the qualitative analysis refers to 4 specific days and to all search queries that did not conduct to any results in the discovery. The qualitative analysis allowed to verify if patrons mostly conduct searches about a theme, or if they use the discovery to search known-items in order to access or to localize them. Moreover, it was possible to identify some patron’s expectations about search queries that discovery is not able to satisfy and some ideas to improve it. The result reveals that during the library closure the use of the discovery tool increased a lot, but the search behaviour remained basically the same as in the other months. Patrons use the discovery mostly to search known-item in order to reach the full text of the documents. Finally, some elements to improve the discovery tool functionality were identified.

Authority file of personal names in SBN and Alphabetica: problems and perspectives

Carlo Bianchini, Stefano Bargioni, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The article presents the results of the qualitative and quantitative analysis of SBN authority records for personal names, by the comparison of two datasets, the former based on data sent to VIAF in 2021 (PRE) and the latter on data taken from the SBN OPAC shortly after the publication of Alphabetica, the new ICCU portal (POST). The aim of the study was to establish whether the quality of the authority records actually corresponds to the requirements specified by SBN for the entries of level 90 and above. In addition, the study aimed to verify whether the system of production and publication of authority records, based on the authority levels of entries and of cataloguers, is still current or not, also with respect to the novelties introduced by Alphabetica. The analysis shows that a re-levant percentage of authority records (both in PRE and in POST) do not meet the requirements, that the choice of publication of records according to the levels of authority does not match to the standards and to the choices of other national bibliographic agencies, and that the innovations introduced in Alphabetica sug-gest a change of perspective in the organisation of SBN authority work.

Citing the internet with DOIs and shortened URLs? Better not

Riccardo Ridi — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

In bibliographic citations of online documents, URLs are increasingly replaced with shorter ones provided by services such as TinyURL and Bitly or with DOI codes. These alternative identifiers, although undoubtedly useful for other purposes and in other contexts, should however be used with great caution and parsimony in bibliographic references for numerous reasons, including: 1) the invisibility of the original URL, useful to the readers for the evaluation, for the orientation and for possible searches in the Internet archive; 2) the uncertainty about the actual longevity of alternative identifiers; 3) the slight increase in the time required to reach the document you want to consult and the greater probability that at least one of the sites involved is temporarily out of use or slowed down; 4) the greater immediacy of use, universality and granularity of the URL compared to the DOI; 5) the existence of misleading ‘paper DOIs’ which refer to documents not yet available online; 6) the possibility that DOIs are automatically converted into the URLs of unofficial versions of the corresponding documents; 7) the advertising that is actually given to private companies providing shortened URLs, subtracting it from more relevant and reliable sites and publications, as well as the risk of exposing readers to further advertisements managed by these companies; 8) the risk of shortened URLs being inhibited by postal systems and firewalls that suspect them of hiding sites considered dangerous. The article also provides some tips on how to cite preprints and how to ‘limit damage’ in the event that excessively long and complicated URLs are still replaced by shortened URLs.

The Laire affair and the Roman editions of the fifteenth century in the works exchanged between Tommaso Verani and Giovanni Battista Audiffredi

Lucrezia Signorello — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The paper traces the events that led to the publication of the Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum editionum saeculi XV – which the Dominican Giovanni Battista Audiffredi published in the context of the dispute with the French Francois-Xavier Laire and his essay on Roman typography – through the correspondence between the librarian of the Casanatense Library and the Augustinian Tommaso Verani. At the same time, the paper offers a picture of the erudite studies conducted by Verani and of the reorganizations he carried out in the archives and libraries of the Observant Congregation of Lombardy, activities that allowed him to come into contact with some of the greatest intellectuals of the Italian 18th century.

Sicilia piangente su le rovine delle sue più belle città: story and data from the printed Reports of the 1693 Val di Noto earthquake

Francesca Aiello — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The paper aims to analize printed reports describing the earthquake that destroyed many cities in eastern Sicily in January 1693. In particular, this kind of printing production, called stampe d’occasione, chronicle events deemed important to the local community. These printed books also had a divulgative function of the contemporary facts, even dramatic, that involved the territory. The editions currently surveyed are present in very few copies, in most cases preserved in non-Sicilian libraries and bound inside miscellaneous volumes.

Divine markets: producing, selling and reading Dante's Commedia in the early 1470

Natale Vacalebre — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The article examines the history of the first three printed editions of Dante’s Commedia (1472; Foligno, Mantua, and Iesi/Venice), analyzing their respective vicissitudes from a socio-economic perspective. Specifically, through a joint analysis of the relevant academic literature, the local socio-economic history, and the material provenances recorded within numerous copies, the essay intends to highlight to what degree and form commercial events such as regional fairs influenced the development and distribution of typographic products in Italy in the 1470s.

Italian codices in Eötvös Loránd University Library, Budapest

Máté Bibor, Katalin Németh, Péter Kiszl — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Eötvös Loránd University Library, which celebrates its 460th birthday this year, is one of the oldest continually operating public libraries in Hungary. The historical nature of its collection is primarily due to its continuous centuries-long operation, which is extremely rare in East-Central Europe. Furthermore, other significant factors behind the growth of its collection were the abolition of monasteries ordered by Joseph II, and a few truly generous donations. Among the latter the donation of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1877), which enriched the library’s collection with thirty-five codices, stands out. Most of these medieval manuscripts were taken to Istanbul as spoils of war during the Ottoman occupation of the Hungarian Kingdom in the 16-17th centuries. The majority of the codices “gifted back” by the Sultan in 1877 are of Italian origin, most of them being humanist manuscripts, and a dozen of them were part of the Bibliotheca Corvina, the famous collection of King Matthias I (1458-1490). They include four codices of the former collection of Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan (1450-1466). The vast majority of the forty-seven Italian medieval manuscripts of the University Library are in Latin; from among these, the autograph manuscript of Saint Bernardine of Siena is especially significant for Italians. The Dante Codex is the most famous of the four Italian-language codices but the others, a nautical handbook, an anthology of ethics, and a musicological work are also of interest. This study briefly presents each Italian medieval manuscript preserved in the Library of the Eötvös Loránd University, offering help for their further study by referring the readers to the most important secondary literature works discussing them, especially the ones written in languages of international circulation. The links to the digital versions of the discussed manuscripts available in the institutional repository of the library, namely EDIT are given, and, in case of the corvinas, the links to their description and digital copy in the Bibliotheca Corvina Virtualis operated by the Hungarian national library are included as well. Finally, the paper concludes by an excursus detailing what elements of the Italian book culture are includedinto the graduate curriculum of the programs offered by the Institute of Library and Information Science of Eötvös Loránd University. A subsidiary aim of the study is to encourage the intercultural research and professional relationships between Italian and Hungarian scholars of library and information science, which have already been boosted by the meetings between Italian and Hungarian librarians organized at the turn of the millennium.

Alexandria for Alexander: for a dating of the Alexandrian project

Luca Tiberi — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

On the basis of Strabo’s and Athenaeus’ well known passages (Geograph., XIII, 1, 54, 5-9, Deipnosoph. I, 4, 22-33 and V, 53, 1-11) on the Aristoteles’ books, their arrival to Alexandria has to be considered as a turning point in the history of the famous egyptian library. This circumstance, together with Demetrius’ collaboration with the king Soter, makes probable that the library took an important step forward between 287 and 283 b.C. The hypothesis is sustained by the Soter’s will to honour his old friend Alexander and by Demetrius’ documented activity in the library, which must have taken place only under Soter’s reign.

Not information but understanding

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

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

Andre Vieira de Freitas Araujo, Giulia Crippa, Fiammetta Sabba, Gustavo Saldanha — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Adriana Isidório da Silva Zamite, Maira Cristina Grigoleto — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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?

Bruno Almeida dos Santos, Nathália Lima Romeiro — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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)

Giulia Crippa, Ieda Pelógia Martins Damian — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

“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)

René Lommez Gomes — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Andre Vieira de Freitas Araujo, Diná Marques Pereira Araújo — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Vinícios Souza de Menezes — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Mell Siciliano, Fernanda Valle, Amanda Salomão — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Carlos Henrique Juvêncio — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Cristina Dotta Ortega — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Diego Baldi — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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")

Edoardo Barbieri — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Rosa Parlavecchia — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Lorenzo Baldacchini — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Carlo Bianchini, Fiammetta Sabba, Lucia Sardo — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Andrea Capaccioni — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Maurizio Vivarelli — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Fiammetta Sabba — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Lucia Sardo — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Dinko Fabris — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Roberta Cesana — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Fiammetta Sabba — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Vincenzo Fano — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Francesca Nepori — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Giorgia Di Marcantonio — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Francesca Ghersetti — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Dimitri Brunetti — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Giorgio Montecchi — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Andrea Moroni — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Valentina Sonzini — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Maria Grazia Dalai — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Francesca Nepori — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Diego Baldi — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Sara Marmai — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Hülya Çelik, Chiara Petrolini — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Luciano Canfora — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Bibliography of the Italian authors

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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’

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Federico Valacchi — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Fabio Cusimano — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Stefano Allegrezza — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Valentina Sonzini — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Paolo Livieri — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Giovanna Grifoni — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Debora M. Di Pietro — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Lorenzo Mancini — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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)

Simona Inserra — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Francesco Salvestrini — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0200

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Antonio Castronuovo — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Roberta Cesana — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Roberta Cesana — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Attilio Mauro Caproni — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Fiammetta Sabba — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Lorenzo Mancini — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Simona Inserra — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Francesca Nepori — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Veronica Archelite — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Federica Fabbri — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Silvia Tripodi — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Simona Inserra — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Antonio Castronuovo — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

My library

Giampiero Mughini — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Alfredo Serrai — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Carlo Bianchini — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Andrea Moroni — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Francesca Nepori — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Antonella Brunelli — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Giovanna Granata — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Riccardo Pane — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Luca Tiberi — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100

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

Fiammetta Sabba — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Joachim Johann Mader's De scriptis et bibliothecis antediluvianis

Diego Baldi — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

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

Mauro Guerrini, Rossano De Laurentiis — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

The article analyzes the history of the Camera dei Deputati’s Library through the publication: Fernando Venturini, Libri, lettori e bibliotecari a Montecitorio. Storia della Biblioteca della Camera dei deputati, Milano, Wolters Kluwer, Padova, CEDAM, 2019 (Quaderni di Nomos. Le attualità nel diritto. Nuova serie, 7).

Rossano De Laurentiis, Guido Biagi e la biblioteconomia in Italia tra XIX e XX secolo, presentazione di Mauro Guerrini, Roma, AIB, 2017

Elisabetta Zonca — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

La cassa dei libri. La famiglia Michelstaedter e la Shoah, a cura di Marco Menato e Simone Volpato, Crocetta del Montello, Antiga, 2019

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Elisa Pederzoli, “L’arte di farsi conoscere”. Formiggini e la diffusione del libro e della cultura italiana nel mondo, Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2019

Elisabetta Zonca — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Anna Ferrando, Cacciatori di libri. Gli agenti letterari durante il fascismo, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2019

Elisa Marazzi — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Giuliano Vigini, Editori a Milano. Una storia illustrata dal 1860 al 1940, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2018

Roberta Cesana — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Robert Darnton, Un tour de France letterario. Il mondo dei libri alla vigilia della Rivoluzione francese, Roma, Carocci, 2019

Antonio Castronuovo — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Francesca Aiello, I libri del cardinale Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet, Milano, Ledizioni, 2019

Debora Di Pietro — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Fiammetta Sabba, Angelo Maria Bandini in viaggio Roma (1780-1781), Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2019

Giovanna Granata — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Francesca Aiello, La biblioteca dei Benedettini di san Nicolò l’Arena a Catania: dalle carte d’archivio alla collezione libraria, Milano, Ledizioni, 2019

Silvia Tripodi — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

La Grande Galleria. Spazio del sapere e rappresentazione del mondo nell’età di Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia, a cura di Franca Varallo e Maurizio Vivarelli, Roma, Carocci, 2019

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Silvia Curi Nicolardi, Melchiorre Sessa tipografo ed editore (Venezia 1506-1555), Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2019

Valentina Sonzini — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Urs B. Leu - Sandra Weidmann, Huldrych Zwingli’s private library, Leiden, Brill, 2018

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Itinéraires du livre italien à la Renaissance. Suisse romande, anciens Pays-Bas et Liège, sous le direction de Renaud Adam et Chiara Lastraioli, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019

Shanti Graheli — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Catalogo degli incunaboli della Biblioteca Panizzi di Reggio Emilia, a cura di Maurizio Festanti, Roma, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2019

Simona Inserra — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Catalogo degli incunaboli della Biblioteca storica di Palazzo Campana di Osimo, a cura di Monica Bocchetta, Macerata, EUM, 2019

Simona Inserra — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Libraries and pandemic in a secular age

Claudio Leombroni — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Nature and information

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

The genetic code of the human species requires us to react aggressively to threatening situations. Culture, history – as magistra vitae –, philosophy, law and even religion have failed to quell aggressive instincts except through threats and punishments. Until today, scientific achievements have not changed the biological determinants of our species, so as to eliminate its aggressive and destructive components. The recent electronic communication system, which allows not only the exchange of information but also the immediate transmission of emotional and empathic states, can have unpredictable and incisive effects on the collective transformation of human beings.

De l’intention à l’action: les bibliothèques publiques et la participation

Raphaëlle Bats — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

The significant increase in participatory practices in French libraries leads us to question the intentions that govern and precede their implementation. This paper aims to discover these intentions through the study of a participatory cultural program organized by the Bibliothèque municipale of Lyon between November 2016 and March 2017. The programmatic documents consulted, the interviews conducted with the librarians and the observation of participatory activities allow to put in place highlights three reasons that define the roles that the public library wishes to play today in French society: the 'convivialité' library, the 'encapacitation' library and the'engagement' library.

«In scrineis» of Monna Caterina: The Books of Stefano di Nello Fatinelli (1419)

Elisabetta Guerrieri — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

In the unpublished inventory of «bona et iura», which belonged to Stefano Fatinelli (d. 1418), a Lucchese merchant of high lineage, are recorded more than sixty codes which were kept «in scrineis domine Caterine», that is Caterina Martini, widow of the late Stefano. This instrumentum is kept in a notarial protocol of the Lucca State Archive; its discovery allowed to conduct various researches, based on unpublished materials, the results of which are presented here. The essay is divided into three paragraphs. The first one outlines Fatinelli’s profile, through the analysis of his will and the use of other sources, including a manuscript bearer of the life of Saint Zita (d. 1278), the humble servant who worked for the powerful Fatinelli family. The second paragraph is dedicated to the illustration of the inventory and its contextualization: indeed, it was drawn up following a petition, requested by a relative of the late Stefano to the Vicar of the Podestà of Lucca, in order to protect the infant heir to a considerable patrimony. The last paragraph is reserved for books: they are almost camouflaged in the inventory, which is composed by a long theory of land, buildings, household linen, precious fabrics, various furnishings, lists of debtors, etc. belonged to the deceased one. The critical edition of the books inventory items is preceded by some reflections thanks to which the library’s “cultural gradient” is identified. The short list is evidence of a library collection now lost, of which two manuscripts are still recognised. Finally, the appendix contains Stefano Fatinelli’s will and the aforementioned petition. This essay gives the image of one of the private libraries that, starting from the XIVth Century, acquired importance in Lucca. Additionally, it helps to outline the overall picture of the circulation of books and cultural interests within and beyond the city walls in the early fifteenth century.

Notes and reflections around Il libro, il popolo, il territorio, da una indagine socio-statistica: memoria storica di biblioteche

Rosa Marisa Borraccini — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Pivoting up the socio-statistical survey carried out in 1975 by the Department of Cultural Activities and the Municipal Library of Faenza, returned by the report Il libro, il popolo e il territorio: biblioteche e servizi culturali a Faenza, introduced in the recent re-edition by the protagonists of the time, the contribution traces and discusses for synthetic lines and problems the transformations that have occurred forty-five years later in the idea, identity, function and role of the Italian public library of the third millennium.

The Abteilung für Sondersammlungen of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol in Innsbruck: a brief introduction on history, status quaestionis and ongoing projects

Claudia Sojer — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

This article outlines the history of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol (University and Provincial Library of Tirol at Innsbruck, ULB Tirol) in Innsbruck from the initial idea for its establishment arising in 1731 through its actual foundation in 1745, as well as its connection, shaped by various interactions, with the Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck founded in 1669. The text also provides general information on the modern-day ULB Tirol, including data on its general tasks and mission, its holdings and numbers of users, and the individual departments of the library. The main focus of the article lies on the Department of Special Collections and its manuscript holdings, however. It offers an overview of the cataloguing projects conducted over the past fifty years and the status quo of those projects, as well as discussing their boundaries and the possibilities they have opened up. Finally, three specific projects are presented that are either currently being implemented or will be undertaken in the coming years and will substantially expand existing knowledge on the department’s manuscript assets. A bibliography lists all modern manuscript catalogs published between 1987 and 2017 as well as the essential literature on the history of the library’s holdings from 1874 to 2019.

«At the risk of entering into minute and very uninteresting particulars...»: the dispute between Antonio Panizzi and Nicholas Harris Nicolas

Lucia Sardo — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

The paper analyzes the dispute between Panizzi and Nicolas regarding the innovations proposed by the Italian librarian at the British Museum library. The innovations introduced by Panizzi mainly concern the management of the reading room and the rules for the new printed catalog of the printed books of
the British Museum library.

Plan d’une bibliotheque universelle

Alfredo Serrai — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Libraries always have been evidence of civilization, culture, tradition, and progress. However, from the Enlightenment period and especially after the French Revolution, libraries become a factor of not only individual, but also collective and social education and elevation. In 1837, Louis Aimé Martin – conservator of the library of Saint Geneviève in Paris – published the essay Plan d’une bibliotheque universelle, where the library is described as a national educational enterprise whose aim is to bring together within the same
principles all classes of society. The essay cites the works of the most notable authors of all disciplines, divided by nations for the literary sphere.

Archives in the library: parallel worlds that meet?

Annantonia Martorano — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

The contribution, starting from the observation that archives and libraries, despite being different and parallel worlds, wants to analyze the difficult relationship between the two realities through a diachronic reconstruction, highlighting the investigations and reflections conducted in Italy over time, and still in progress today , in relation to the complexity and ambiguity of this relationship, due also to the presence of funds and archival documents in libraries, and of documents and literary funds in the archives. The crux of ideal
and practical relationships, therefore existing or desirable, between archives and libraries hinges both on normative and managerial aspects, but certainly also conceptual, and therefore it is as complex as it is urgent to try to dissolve it, proposing the meeting of these two worlds parallel thanks to the help of digital technologies and integrated platforms, in order to make the documentary heritage they contain accessible to an increasingly wider audience.

The "libraria" of the Capuchin friars of Sanremo and Francesco Corradi's donation

Luca Tosin — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

The essay starts from the will with which the physician Francesco Corradi, born in Sanremo and died in Genoa in 1865, disposed of his own legacy for various charitable purposes including the creation in his hometown of a public library. Until then, this institute was non-existent in the face of the presence of book collections belonging to religious orders, including Jesuits and Capuchins: the latter’s own books, acquired following the laws of suppression of the ecclesiastical bodies of 1866 and 1867, constituted the first core of the Corradi Library along with the volumes belonging to the doctor himself. The study therefore through the examination of the notes of possession tries to reconstruct the origin and organization of the friars’ collection, then through the analysis of the documentation produced in the meetings of the Municipal Council of Sanremo examines the formative process of the current Civic Library.

The Arezzo-printed edition of Lodovico Antonio Muratori’s works (1767-1780)

Riccardo Neri — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Published in 36 volumes between 1767 and 1780, the edition of Lodovico Antonio Muratori’s works is the main product of Arezzo’s ancient typography. Based on original documents owned by Episcopal Seminary of Arezzo, the essay shows the leading actors and the story of the project. The bishop Jacopo Gaetano Inghirami decides to renovate the Seminary’s plan of study through some updated teaching material. Thanks to a clever editorial policy, the expertise of the printer Michele Bellotti and a well-designed distribution network, the publication becomes a commercial product in great demand: in a few months it gets 288 buyers in Italy and abroad. After bishop Inghirami’s death in 1772, Episcopal Seminary of Arezzo and ‘Collegio Serristori’ of Castiglion Fiorentino
become the new editors. They buy from ‘Società Palatina di Milano’ the original matrices used for the illustrations of the very first editions of Muratori’s masterpieces: Rerum Italicarum Scriptores and Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi. In order to sell the unsold, the editors also swap lots of volumes with selected books by many italians booksellers’ sale catalogues. As many of these books are requested for school use, this practice shows the attention of Seminary’s education to scientific arguments and Enlightenment’s issues. Unfortunately, because of increasing economic problems and printer’s death, the editors decide to stop the publication to the detriment of original project.

An introduction to the incunabula collection of Biblioteca Diocesana in Aosta. With a revision of the description of a fifteenth century edition printed in Lyon and the discovery of an unknown sixteenth century edition

Fabrizio Fossati — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Aosta’s Biblioteca Diocesana owns a collection of about 150 incunabula wich have been cataloged in the middle of the last century. The section has been recently reexamined and all the provenance informations are now available in Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database. The activity has made possible to identify ancient owners of incunbula now in the library and helped the study about the circulation of book in Aosta Valley. The research also led to discovery a unknown sixteenth-century edition, which is here described and assigned to the typography of Johann Besicken. A bibliographical revision of the description of a fifteenth-century edition of De consolatione philosophiae printed in Lyons by Guillaume Le Roy is also given.

Pagination printed by Aldus Manutius

Koichi Yukishima — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Pagination is an important element of the modern book, but the development of pagination and printing techniques have not been adequately studied. The author of this paper discusses pagination by Aldus Manutius (ca. 1450-1515) and his influence on the contemporary printers. Aldus printed 17 paginated books between 1499 and 1514, of which 13 books were printed in Greek (Table 1). His pagination can be divided into three types. Type A comprises books in which the page numbers were printed at the rightmost point of the headline on the recto page and at the leftmost point of the headline on the verso page. Type B comprises books in which the page numbers were printed in the middle of the headline on both the recto and verso pages. Type C comprises books in which the page numbers were printed at the rightmost point of the headline on both the recto and verso pages (Figure 1). Aldus’ preferred Type A and trialled Type B and C paginations when printing in octavo format. He tested all these types until 1508. Among these 17 paginated books, Aldus provided table of contents to nine books (Nos 2, 4, 6-8, and 12-15) and provided index to two books (Nos 1 and 6). But other seven books (Nos 3, 5, 9-11 and 16-17) were not provided any table of contents and index. It is certain that Aldus’s pagination was mainly intended to indicate the positions of the text by page numbers in a table of contents. His works influenced directly Lyon, Florence, and Basel. Johann Froben of Basel (ca. 1460-1527) printed many paginated books including Erasmus’s works, and Greek and Roman classics (Figure 3). Due to Froben’s efforts, pagination spread throughout the Rhine River Basin, Paris, and Antwerp until 1520, and then appeared at some leading centres of printing in East and South Germany, and England (Table 2).

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

Andrea De Pasquale — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Since 1932 the Central National Library of Rome has developed a specific vocation for the census and study of incunabula in a national perspective. In fact, it is the owner of the direction of IGI - General Index of the Incunabula of Italy which, published from 1943 to 1981, constituted one of the most innovative and complete European projects for the re-cataloging of the bibliographic heritage of the century of the origins of the press. The Library was followed by the Italian contact person for the ISTC - Incunaula Short-Title catalog and Incipit projects of the British Library. Recently, in collaboration with the CERL and thanks to the contribution of the Polonski Foundation in New York, it has launched a new project for the digitalization of incunabula starting from the conspicuous collection of the S. Scholastica di Subiaco library, the cradle of the Italian press, through methods and procedures. innovative products that allow a full-scale research on the specimens treated, through a specific portal and participation in other related projects, such as MEI, Text-Inc and 15cIllustration.

Viaggi a bordo di una parola. Scritti sull’indicizzazione semantica in onore di Alberto Cheti, a cura di Anna Lucarelli, Alberto Petrucciani, Elisabetta Viti, Roma, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2019

Alfredo Serrai — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Maria Teresa Biagetti, Le biblioteche digitali. Tipologie, funzionalità e modelli di sviluppo, con scritti di Roberto Raieli, Antonella Iacono, Antonella Trombone, Simona Turbanti, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2019

Alberto Salarelli — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Carlo Bianchini - Mauro Guerrini, Guida alla biblioteca per gli studenti universitari, con la collaborazione di Andrea Capaccioni, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2019

Agnese Galeffi — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Loretta De Franceschi, Libri in guerra. Editoria e letture per i soldati in guerra nel primo Novecento, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2019

Francesca Nepori — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Dario Agazzi, La Grande Enciclopedia italiana. Dalla Società Savoldi a Treccani. Una vicenda editoriale e famigliare, prefazione di Felice Accame, Milano, Biblion, 2018

Loretta De Franceschi — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Giulio Rezasco politico, burocrate e lessicografo. Atti del Convegno, Bolano 13 maggio 2017, a cura di Francesca Nepori, La Spezia, Accademia Lunigianese di Scienze Giovanni Capellini, 2018

Elena Gonnelli — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Andrea Capaccioni, Le origini della biblioteca contemporanea. Un istituto in cerca di identità tra Vecchio e Nuovo Continente (secoli XVII- XIX), Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2017

Francesca Nepori — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Una marchesa in viaggio per l’Italia. Diario di Margherita Boccapaduli (1794-1795), a cura di Gilles Bertrand e Marina Pieretti, Roma, Viella, 2019

Fiammetta Sabba — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

De Bibliothecis Romanorum di Christian Curio. Una tesi di storia delle biblioteche nel 1734, a cura di Diego Baldi; nota filologica e traduzione di Luca Tiberi; con una presentazione di Alfredo Serrai, Roma, CNR-Istituto di studi sul Mediterraneo antico, 2019

Eleonora De Longis — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Lodovica Braida, L’autore assente. L’anonimato nell’editoria italiana del Settecento, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2019

Alfredo Serrai — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Il passeggiere disingannato. Guide di Ferrara in età pontificia. Atti del Convegno (Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, 19 ottobre 2017). Omaggio a Carlo Bassi (1923-2017), a cura di Ranieri Varese, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2019

Fiammetta Sabba — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Le cinquecentine della biblioteca del Convento della Verna, a cura di Chiara Razzolini e Chiara Cauzzi, con una nota di Carlo Ossola, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2019

Francesca Nepori — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Gigliola Fragnito, Rinascimento perduto. La letteratura italiana sotto gli occhi dei censori (secoli XV-XVII), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019

Francesca Nepori — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Adriana Alessandrini, Texts and studies, v. 3, Il libro a stampa e la cultura del Rinascimento: un’indagine sulle biblioteche fiorentine negli anni 1470-1520, Firenze, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2018

Giovanni Petrocelli — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Roma, Carocci, 2019

Valentina Sonzini — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Catalogo dei manoscritti della Biblioteca Piana di Cesena, a cura di Lucrezia Signorello, con un saggio introduttivo di Angela Adriana Cavarra, Roma, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2019

Leonardo Magionami — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Advanced training course Biblioteche d’autore contemporanee: Metodologia di acquisizione, gestione e valorizzazione (National Central Library of Rome, 29-31 October 2019)

Silvia Tripodi — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Paola Maddaluno — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Valentina Sonzini — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Mauro Guerrini, Rossano De Laurentiis — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Elisabetta Angrisano — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Select to preserve: the construction of memory in ecclesiastical archives between history and practice

Gilda Nicolai — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Even if the memory is selective, reading the past gives new meaning to the present connected with the threads of time, reflected by the lights and shadows of the past and projected into the future. The documentation must be cultivated and preserved beforehand; otherwise there is a weak memory with difficulties and risks, in which the loss of tradition is a near danger. In the context of great cultural changes, the preservation of memory, already complicated on its behalf, may be even more difficult, given the lack of organic works designed to illustrate the set of political, administrative, judicial, ecclesiastical, economic and financial institutions in the specific vision of the relationship between the history and functions of the institutions on the one hand, and the production of writings on the other. Awareness of the preservation of one’s memory was a long process in the history of the Church and perhaps not yet concluded. The article, after a historical excursus of the provisions relating to the construction of ecclesiastical archives and the legislation on the conservation of the acts, focuses attention on selection and waste, trying to highlight the crucial passages and changes that have occurred in the various centuries until today.

Third Mission, Communication, and Academic Libraries

Fiammetta Sabba — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100

The paper traces the history of ‘Third Mission”, from an ethical perspective to an institutional task, defining the relevance in it of the information-research-society relationship, and the role of communication and of Public Engagement, both as tools to implement this relationship. The second part analyses the normative documents and the ministerial procedures, presenting the structural evolution, and reserving a specific in-depth analysis to the academic libraries as special laboratory places for a conjunction between research and society.