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Periodical and academic proceedings
The Periodicals Section of the University Library boasts more than 10,000 titles, ranging from the first literary and political gazzettes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the proceedings of Italian and overseas academies and institutions, up to modern and contemporary magazines on historical, literary and scientific topics. The section traces its origins back to around 1930, with the construction of the storage rooms designed to hold newspapers, official publications, academic proceedings and magazines, and the creation of a special index card catalogue, distinct from the conventional catalogue for authors and titles.
The resources of this section can be broken down into the following categories:
- 1,300 newspapers, with 420 titles available on microfilm
- 4,000 out-of-print periodicals
- 3,000 academic proceedings
- 2,000 serial publications of various types (official publications, yearbooks etc)
The periodicals catalogue contains information cards on all the serial publications in the Library, ordered alphabetically by title.
Currently 3,000 titles are catalogued in SBN.
About 300 current magazines (the most recent copies are on display) are displayed in appropriate display units according to the Dewey decimal classification system.
The Library is part of the ACNP (Archivio colletivo nazionale dei periodici), with 9,000 titles listed, of which 2,000 are updated on line.
The services regarding the distribution and reading of periodicals on site, the reproduction of articles, and Library information services conform to the same timetable as that governing services relating to modern printed works.