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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.

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.

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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.

The article, based on previously published studies and new historical sources, treats the profiles of some libraries belonged to religious Orders, noble families and of some private and public libraries in the County of Gorizia between 17th and early 18th century. The article wants to be a starting point for large-scale library history researches useful to acquiring new knowledge on cultural history and about the presence of books in the Gorizia area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A few years ago, the Royal Library in Turin bought an exquisite and unknown manuscript attributed to Lenoir, former police lieutenant in Paris from 1774 to 1785. It was probably handwritten in 1795-1796 when Lenoir was an émigré, but it contains the account of all he made, saw and thought during a stay of about thirteen days in the capital of Piedmont in October 1780. The descriptions in this handwritten notebook of about nearly 400 pages are very accurate and are accompanied by a series of mostly glued and sometimes fold-out images of various cultural places and objects in Turin. A bilingual edition with an Italian translation of this amazing object could be very interesting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the studies dedicated by Francesco Malaguzzi to the art of binding and illustrates his method of investigation, which led him to explore important libraries in Piedmont, as well as minor libraries far from important centres. The result of his work was very significant: now we have a broad and technically perfect description of the heritage of ligatures manufactured and stored in Piedmont. Francesco Malaguzzi was not only attentive to the aesthetic and artistic aspects of the bindings, considered as collectors’ items with a special beauty. His attention to art collecting was linked to the profound interest in the technical aspect, the craftsman’s workshop where the binding was created, the biographies of the binders, the craftsmen who are often unknown and forgotten. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Il contributo fa il punto degli studi sul tema delle biblioteche, degli archivi, dei libri e delle carte definite ‘d’autore’, soffermandosi sia su questioni di natura teorica e disciplinare che su problemi di carattere pratico e gestionale. Che cosa si intende per biblioteca d’autore? Quali sono le questioni biblioteconomiche e bibliografiche legate alle biblioteche e carte d’autore? Qual è rapporto tra documenti librari e documenti archivistici, e quale collaborazione è possibile tra bibliotecario, archivista e studioso specializzato? Perché acquisire ancora oggi fondi privati e d’autore? Quanto influisce il locus di destinazione sulla sorte delle biblioteche d’autore? Queste sono le domande a cui l’articolo cerca di dare una risposta esaustiva e ragionata.

In the Forties of the Nineteenth century the Government of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany tried to reorganize the Florentine libraries which for years were not able to meet the expectations of the scholars. In 1844 the expert bibliographer Giuseppe Molini, member of a special commission created by the Grand Duke, proposed and started to implement a radical reorganization of the Florentine public libraries through the redistributing of the material owned by individual institutions, the sale of books considered duplicate and the unification of the six libraries, existing at that time, in three institutions: a «Medical and Surgical Library»; a «Legai Library»; a «great Universal Library». The project aroused curiosity and fears, of which became the spokesman Cesare Guasti, a young scholar from Prato, who made it of public domain writing some newspaper articles. The reorganaization of the Florentine libraries proposed by Giuseppe Molini soon became subject of criticism. The literary controversy first, the facts related to the revolution and counter-revolution in the Grand Duchy then, prevented to carry out Molini's plan, that was suspended in 1851 and later abandoned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the private libraries of Sardinia, and casts a light on the Sardinian intellectual landscape of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century. The analysis is based on notarial documentation, in particular on the post mortem inventories. This paper examines the methodological issues related to the documents it is based on library collections of significance. The libraries' exam and classification allows us to underline their features and those social components who were more involved in the circulation of books. The paper also analyses what kind of books the libraries' owners were interested in and therefore their cultural background. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses late 16th century court libraries as a focal point of the production and circulation of knowledge, centering on the Imperial library in VIenna and documents created by Imperial librarian Hugo Blotius. Topics discussed include the organization of knowledge, from a theoretical and material perspective; the uses of the library, including uses by the Emperor and the intellectual classes; and spatial aspects of the organization of knowledge, from a theoretical and practical perspective.

The first World Congress of libraries and Bibliography took place in Rome and Venice from 15 to 30 June 1929. It was attended by 880 libraries and librarians from 35 countries, and by a delegate of the League of Nations. The conference is a key event in the history of Italian and international libraries, and in the cultural politics of the Fascist regime. The Congress, however, has never been studied analytically. The reasons for this surprising lack of interest, even decades later, are still to understand. The Congress was the first global meeting of the International Library and Bibliographical Committee, formed in Edinburgh in 1927, consisting of representatives from 15 library associations, who had voted for the "Edinburgh Resolution". It formally instituted the founding core of that association which just in Italy, during the conference, was officially called the International Federation of Library Association (IFLA). The Italian government sensed the opportunity to transform the initiative in Congress regime and granted the necessary financial and organizational help; a specific law was enacted: no. 3094 of 27 December 1928. The Duce himself participated, on June 15,1929, at the opening session in the Capitol, with a speech that marked the relationship between the Regime and Congress. Pope Pius XI, former prefect of the Ambrosian and Vatican Library, received the delegates. The conference was divided into 16 sections in which were discussed technical issues, professional issues and reports of international cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the institutional background of Italian State university libraries, from the establishment of the Italian Ministry of Culture to the present day - going through the last decade of the 20th century, when Legislative Decree 112/1998 proposed a new institutional organization of the State university libraries within the Universities. The main institutional and service tasks that State university libraries have to fulfill are supporting learning and research, preserving national heritage and providing proper spaces for public reading. The paper analyses the opportunities of interaction and cooperation with Universities and University libraries, as for-for instance-the purchasing policies (especially with regard to electronic resources) and the users' training and information sessions. Given the increasing compression of human and financial resources that hampers the daily management of libraries, inter-institutional cooperation nowadays is more desirable than ever. If on the one hand the plurality of tasks and functions of the State university libraries reinforces their vitality, on the other hand it adds an extra burden on the daily organisation and service management, because of the difficulty of arranging their human and financial resources and of giving the right space and visibility to their several institutional and service tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the 500th anniversary of the library at the episcopal seminary of Padua, Italy. The article provides a brief history of the seminary and its library. Opening remarks were given by the Rector of the Università degli Studi di Padova, Giuseppe Zaccaria, and President of the library system at the Ateneo dell'Università di Padova, Laura Tallandini. Sessions included discussions on funding the library and possible developments in cataloging. The day of study also served as a celebration to mark the successful completion of the complex and the successful collaboration between the Seminary and University of Padua, and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio

The article presents information regarding the life, will and books of Giovanni Francesco Brusati who studied canon law at the University of Padua from 1456 to 1460. The article beings with genealogical information on the Brusati and Roverella families, Giovanni Francesco's paternal and maternal ancestors, respectively. It continues on with an analysis of the inventory of books contained within Brusati's personal library. The article then discusses his death and the contents of his last will and testament.

The article provides biographical information on the medieval physician Bartolomeo Gozadori of Mantua, Italy, as well as information regarding the contents of his personal library. It discusses Gozadori's upbringing in Mantua and his friendship with Marsilio Santasofia. The author describes Gozadori's supposed competitive nature with his fellow medical colleagues, as well as the contents of his last will and testament. It concludes with a description of Bartolomeo Gozadori's library as compared to similar Paduan medical libraries.

The article analyzes the contents of the personal library of Venanzio Da Fermo, a medical student at the University of Padua who died in 1461. The article discusses his academic works and degrees from the university that were found among his personal possessions, as well as his school books. The collection includes various books on Latin and Greek grammar, a commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and "Loiceta" by Paolo da Pergola. It then lists multiple text books on astronomy and astrology that were found within Da Fermo's personal collection and concludes with a discussion on the interest in astrology which spread to seemingly unrelated academic subjects, such as medicine.