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Citation
(1999), "Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma sets four year plan", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 27 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.1999.12227aab.015
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma sets four year plan
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma sets four-year plan
Keywords Archives, Catalogues, Documents, Italy, Music, National cultures, Networking, Planning
The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (BNCR) was founded in 1875, in order to provide the new-born Italian Kingdom with a national archive. It has the institutional duty to edit BOMS (Bollettino delle opere moderne straniere possedute dalle biblioteche statali in Italia), The Union Catalogue of Modern Foreign Books Owned by Italian State Libraries, and to manage the Centro Nazionale per lo Studio del Manoscritto (National Centre for the Study of Manuscripts), collecting more than 100,000 microfilmed manuscripts owned by government, religious and public libraries.
The BNCR collections consist of 5,400,000 monographs and 550,000 serial volumes, more than 84,000 manuscripts, about 2,000 incunabula, 26,000 sixteenth-century books, 9,000engravings, 22,000 theses, 175,000 microfilms and more than 6,000 long-playing records. Its oriental collections deal with near and far East, Persian, Japanese and Chinese manuscripts, maps and books. It documents the ancient, historical and constant relationship between Italian and Eastern culture from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The Modern Italian Section includes autographs and manuscripts by some of the outstanding Italian writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as precious and rare books.
The principal goals of the four-year plan (1997-2000) are: to increase the electronic catalogue through the retroconversion of card catalogues concerning publications from 1958 to 1990; to create local area networks and increase nodes, tools and service; to develop a new OPAC for information retrieval both on local and national databases; to prepare a Web site and online remote access to the library's databases and services. Another project on tools for users facilities on information and retrieval services was prepared and was completed in 1998.
Source: press release