Italian libraries as seen in National and Regional statistics

Maria Nicola Pace and Marianna Prisco

Economia della Cultura, 2013, issue 1, 83-98

Abstract: This article offers an outlook of the Italian libraries system based ondata collected at national and regional level. After the unification, thenew Italian state met with a diversified system of public libraries. Theirvery number and basic characteristics were unknown. Since 1863, throughouta century, several studies have been conducted on a national scaleto fill the gap. When Regional autonomy was introduced in the 1970s,local surveys on libraries bloomed, but their coverage rarely reached thenational level. Due to the lack of a National Authority on Libraries, acomplete picture of the system, made of public (state, regional, municipal,etc.) and private libraries, with standard methods and comparabledata, is still to be attained.

Keywords: libraries; cultural statistics; library system; data collected; national and regional level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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