IFLA Congress in Italy for the fourth time , Libraries create futures: building on cultural heritage : final programme, Milan, Italy, 23-27 August 2009

Welcome of the Chair of the Italian National Committee. IFLA Congress comes back to Italy for the fourth time: 1929, 1951, 1964, and now 2009. In June 1929, in the Marciana Library (Venice), Mr. Isak Collijn announced the name of the Library Federation, and the Italian librarian Vincenzo Fago read the Statute, dated "Florence, June 25, 1929": 1) The name of this organization shall be the International Federation of Library Associations. 2) The object of the Federation shall be to promote international library cooperation. One year after, in 1930, the Italian Library Association (AIB) was founded

La qualità dell’architettura delle biblioteche universitarie per la qualità del servizio e della didattica

Librarias and Universities have the same tasks: learning, research, training. The mission of library systems overlaps that of universities. To fund academic libraries means to improve knowledge circulation and access to information and documents, fundamental requirements to create knowledge, and to train skilled graduated

REICAT : un nuovo codice di regole per quale catalogo?

The article is the resume of a speech delivered in occasion of the presentation of the new edition of the Italian Cataloguing Rules (REICAT). It analyzes the main changes with respect to the previous cataloguing rules, and the relation between REICAT, FRBR and ICP

Il catalogo di qualità : che vi sia ciascun lo dice, dove sia, nessun lo sa

Quality is essential in any field of interest and activity (ref. UNI EN ISO 8402:1995 Quality management and quality assurance). What does quality mean in a library catalog? What are the requirements for quality? Quantitative measures are not enough to determine the quality of a catalog. The author proposes ten principles of qualitative analysis: authority control; cataloguing rules; competence and speedness of work; availability of databases and indexes; software and hardware used; clearness and readability of the catalog; reading ability; record functionality; every reader his catalog; maintenance frequency

La catalogazione basata sull’assiologia bibliografica

The work defines the theoretical aspects of library science, its philosophical basics and principles, the purposes that must be kept in mind, abstracting from the technology used in a library. The book deals with information organization and bibliographic universe, in particular using the bibliographic entities defined in FRBR, at first. Then, it analyzes all the specific languages by which works and subjects are treated. This work, already acknowledged as a classic, organizes, synthesizes and make easily understood the whole complex of knowledge, practices and procedures developed in the last 150 years

IFLA Congress in Italy for the fourth time , Libraries create futures: building on cultural heritage : final programme, Milan, Italy, 23-27 August 2009

Welcome of the Chair of the Italian National Committee. IFLA Congress comes back to Italy for the fourth time: 1929, 1951, 1964, and now 2009. In June 1929, in the Marciana Library (Venice), Mr. Isak Collijn announced the name of the Library Federation, and the Italian librarian Vincenzo Fago read the Statute, dated "Florence, June 25, 1929": 1) The name of this organization shall be the International Federation of Library Associations. 2) The object of the Federation shall be to promote international library cooperation. One year after, in 1930, the Italian Library Association (AIB) was founded

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The initiative to offer one Festschrift to Silvano M. Danieli for his seventieth birthday pays tribute to a man and a professional whose work has left a deep mark on human relations and on the world of libraries. Silvano, librarian at the Pontifical Theological Faculty "Marianum" and Prior of the Studio Marianum community in Rome since 2014, has indeed played a strategic role in the development of URBE, the association unifying the libraries of Rome’s pontifical universities in a single network of services. The qualified list of Italian and European participants to the work is proof of the breadth of appreciation he earned in his thirty years of activity as librarian and curator of the Bibliography of the Servite Order and of the Marian Bibliography. Aelredo of Rievaulx (1109-1167), one of the leading figures of the Anglo-Saxon Cistercian monasticism, expresses the meaning of this gift with the following words: «A man, by virtue of the friendship he has towards another man, becomes a friend of God, according to what the Lord says in the Gospel: I no longer call you servants, but friends»(De spirituali amicitia, II, 14)