cultural heritage and libraries The bibliographic scattered on the territory of the Lazio region is conserved in 422 libraries, most city and region, a large proportion located in the University, the fragment more small and prestigious formed after the Unification of Italy with the forfeiture by the State unit of the libraries of religious orders, is owned state, and is mostly situated, as everybody knows, in the historic center of Rome.
physiognomy, characteristics of these valuable libraries are closely related to the roots of their creation and layering, gorgeous constraints that hold together and open up in monumental vases where the architectural design of the shelves unite el'ornato significantly past conceptions of conservation systemization and reading public, while the space for the storage of books and the work of librarians is very marginal. The historical library
captivates not only with the majestic, royal church of his monumental rooms but also for the winding and unwinding of its inconvenient storage library, the rapid succession of cramped work environments designed for a structure that included a slow-growing literature and no more than a librarian and a keeper.
It is not clear and does not contextualize the historical heritage of our libraries if we consider that they arise when one who could read was really a minority, even more ridiculous was the number of writers and limited compared to today, the number of editions, were kept in the library and not those of the publishing industry but the articles of a masterly intellectual craft gathered around the project of setting up a mind and / or community.
This is the nature of our historic Roman libraries whose wealth held in funds it owes its origin to names like Cardinal Girolamo Casanate, the Augustinian Angelo Rocca, San Filippo Blacks, Pope Alexander VII and the religious orders like the Jesuits whose library was founded on the National Library in Rome .
Libraries are organisms that grow and, in the growth, the initial bond that unites in a single system, and organization of knowledge creation and organization of architectural spaces, is intended to break especially if growth follows the trend and pace of public tasks very different in purpose and in the cultural ambitions, from private and religious who were at the base.
democratic state seeks and imposes free and widespread access to knowledge. The law on legal deposit of documents increases dramatically in the assets of the depository libraries that are in the Lazio region, in addition to the Nazionale in Rome for publishing national el'universitaria Alexandrina for publishing the province, is the activation of these days regional warehouse in the General Archives of the region, like other public libraries can follow the rhythm of contemporary documentation in accordance with the regulations and the extent of resources allocated.
But this rich heritage, physically accessible, it is added, the last decade of the second millennium, an alias virtually accessible, provided not only by cataloging reproductions, video and text of the first, but the network of interconnections, the community of patrons, scholars and students related to libraries, the databases of the information flow entering and leaving the network.
The vanishing, the risk of 'vanishing of the second category of assets, not yet preserved fruit of investments requires stringent choices and study, review and control of digital processes. Within
CNIPA what defines the "dematerialization" of the document for libraries and archives is even more serious problems of conservation of data and form conceptual scaffolding that those figures may have taken over a given period of time.
To give an 'idea of \u200b\u200bwhat I'm talking about just visit the library where most of the Italian digital libraries have poured out their catalogs and new portal play Italy culture that interconnects a number of important digital reality.
last decade this problem, the conservation of the digital environment, has begun to emerge since at least the important conference held in Ferrara in 2000 entitled Keep the twentieth century.
The institutional competence to investigate suitable solutions has recently established the Central Institute for Restoration and preservation of the papers and books that have merged with the existing Central Institute for Book Pathology (ICPL) and the Centre for photocopying, binding and restoration of the State Archives.
seems that so far the attention has focused more on the preservation of documents in digital format, historical records of breeding, reproduction of images and text documents and storage of programs and supports are necessary and essential to their reading, rather than on the preservation of historical memory cognitive environments, historically kept on making websites.
A priceless heritage of our culture for the study of the second millennium and a challenge that we face to that of the third as the value that brings in its fold is comparable, but at significantly higher only than the regular printed material.
The law on legal deposit of documents of cultural interest, issued in 2004, also provides for the preservation and archiving of Web sites at the National Library of Florence, to be regulated by Regulation application issued by Decree of the President of the Republic on May 3 2006 and subsequent regulations concerning "the procedures for filing documents transmitted via the computer network" that has not yet seen the light.
not have, in fact, about the status of work or working parties currently operating. A notice on the website of the National Florence is to imagine that there was a race to the storage of DVDs and other materials web sites since the library emphasizes that sustainable conservation mode to study at international level, is certainly not that of material storage but the capture software (crawlers) by depository institution.
the Library of Congress Library of Congress in its web archives preserved, since 2000, a selection of about 2,000 sites.
He also established the International Internet Preservation Consortium which includes, among other things, our two National Central Library of Rome and Florence, the British Library, California Digital Library, National Library of the Czech Republic, the National Library Board (Singapore), the National Library of Norway, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Diet Library, Japan and the Library and Archives Canada with the duty to cooperate store content on the Internet for future generations.
What content? Chosen by whom? A document which culture? And how many of our sites and our relations are now available online in English oltrecché in Italian?
If the vehicle has already been surpassed in our language, spoken and very uncommon in the world, if you have exceeded our real economy, as the memory will leave the country, history Italian culture and even if blatantly neglect the preservation of digital heritage?
As you know the proper conservation and protection starting with the design and availability of rooms.
growth and transformation of historical libraries in the second millennium has already imposed some transfers and some logistical assistance and architectural construction.
the National Central Library of Rome in 1976 moved to its new location in the library and Praetorian Castro Angelica, about a decade ago, has been completely renovated. For the national
of Rome were built on nine floors of books and stores a vast area of \u200b\u200bgardens around the building after that one thought.
were created ample spaces for the offices - it was assumed that infinite growth of staff - large spaces to accommodate the public area facilities - bank bar and restaurant, a series of workshops, carpentry, restoration, photo lab, laboratory for electrical maintenance, printing, and a structure that they wanted independent statehood, a project designed and implemented a well-established central administration just a moment before the star-making system of regional fragmentation and partial privatization of public services. Angelica
The library was expanded in the late nineties, with logic already different: it was created an exhibition hall, outside the structure connected with this historic and outdoor elevator, designed according to the law Ronchey for commercial use that exists alongside that of the historic vessel Vanvitelliano; the deposit book was expanded to the underground level and created new space for offices.
even more tortuous and difficult path to the university library in Alexandria, once located in the historic center of Rome near the old home of the University in San Ivo alla Sapienza, transfers later, in 1935, along with Wisdom in the new Campus Piacentini, finally restored in the mid-eighties with construction work in 1987 and finally delivered the new structure back into operation in 1988. For
Alexandrina given the complex constraints due to its location within the building of the rector and the specific design of the deposit book, a stunning castle Lips Vago expanded in the fifties with a new wing for storage, restoration was only partial and only predicted an increase of office spaces with merciless cutting of the majestic reading rooms Piacentini and editing huge volumes of the thirties, again based on the short-sighted prediction that the traditional work space for library staff should have been bigger and without taking account of the impending reorganization of the digital and technological, have theorized, the need for partial outsourcing of public services.
The other ancient Roman and historical libraries, the library and the library Casanatense Vallicelliana have not yet been involved in renovation projects and thus suffer all the problems related to lack of space.
How then design new spaces for the conservation, preservation and protection of the heritage of these libraries as we mentioned before is no longer just on paper and environmental heritage but also digital assets?
And the conservation project as you can connect to a strategically focused and integrated redevelopment project, which actually designs and provide the public with the opening of those tourist routes culture that now form part of the institutional purposes of the administration of cultural heritage and one of the major economic opportunities in the country?
I believe these are also obliged to Roman libraries innovative design as the one previously studied, for example, the University of Genoa or the National Library of Bari, design that does not react, only marginally on existing structures, but makes use of other spaces taking action on environmental design and implementation of public services by the City of Rome.
Exploiting the opportunities of the moment that is coordinating the response with potential for savings for the institutions concerned.
In this time we know that the City Rome metro C through the company is expanding the subway network Roman has just been completed surveys in the areas of the old town and it would seem that in the Piazza della Chiesa Nuova is possible to open a new underground station.
The joint is an important junction, it is situated among the foothills of the Old Town and St. Peter and the Vatican City, the historic route for tourists during the centuries when the only tourism was one of the pilgrims coming to Rome visit St. Peter's and to attend celebrations of the Jubilee, because the current path, however, still drives mass religious impulses have been added and cultural knowledge. The route
tourist and cultural part of the Trident to get to Piazza Navona, the Sistine Chapel and the Basilica continues to see in Corso Vittorio Emanuele and the New Church one of the most important stages in the artistic and devotional.
solution building that you think the construction of an underground storage, useful for libraries from the library of the Centre Vallicelliana designed and equipped with systems robottizati services to the public (library, web access, sale of tickets for cultural events and more ...) could offer not only guarantees a better conservation of heritage but also for improved profitability and increased economic development for professionals and companies in the ward.
New spaces Thus for the growing collections, spaces that leave unchanged the existing built environment, the dignity and heritage related to that environment.
to invent new spaces for the museum of the third millennium, a museum-archive of the web store where the people were in the interactions within communities, email, web sites and digital documents, to be kept with the supports and the software necessary to launch from the past, the ambition of immortality ed'universalità common to every library and on which the story is always right because the paths of conservation and culture handed down are always unpredictable and, despite our every effort, project, random.
But we must try. The study of the future having the bases and roots in the way in planning and conservation capital of today.
