POLITECNICO LIBRARIES
	ARCHITECTURE CENTRAL LIBRARY

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CULTURAL AREA Architecture, Design, Town planning, Sociology, Technology, Art. USERS Regularly enrolled students to the Politecnico' schools (Engineering and Architecture) and courses, professors and personnel.The Library can admit external users to its services. LOAN SERVICE It is possible to borrow the books with the location mark s/, video tapes v/ and CD-ROM c/.You can borrow only one document (not renewable) and keep it for a fortnight.The senior year students who receive a guaranty, can borrow three books at the same time. LOAN SUSPENSION HOLDINGS Monographs, journals, degree and Ph.D. theses pertaining to the cultural area. You can also consult microforms, video DVD and CD-ROM. Databases: Below, you can find the most relevant databases: Francis, Sociological abstracts, Art Index e Art Index Retrospective, Design and Applied Arts Index, Urbadoc, Avery Index, Iconda. Archives: The section is in Via Ormea, 34. Besides the Carlo Mollino archive, one of the historical nucleus of the whole collection and the best known, other archives are available and others are in acquisition. Among them it is possible to consult: a photographic plates historical collection about the Savigliano Society works, two collections of photographic reproductions of Turin maps and Piemonte maps and a series of other collections, such as: Franco Berlanda, Marziano Bernardi, Bertone, Mario Dezzutti, Francesco Dolza, Roberto Gabetti, Hutter, Eugenio Mollino and Domenico Morelli. For a complete information about the documentation, see: "E. Tamagno, Il fondo Carlo Mollino e gli archivi della Biblioteca centrale di architettura" in: "Il progetto di architettura: conservazione, catalogazione, informazione. Atti del seminario, Venezia, 1995, P. 106-111". The section is opened from Wednesday to Friday from 10 to 1 a.m or asking for an appointment to mister Santino Todaro (tel. 011-090 6704; e-mail address: bibli.archivi@polito.it). Only a part of the material has been catalogued on line; the other part is on the printed catalogue. Rare collection: Rare books and journals (location mark with the letter /d) CATALOGUES Printed catalogues: Mollino archive On line catalogues: Alphabetico-classed catalogue Joint catalogue of periodicals Theses Publications New (monographs catalogued in the last ten days) Mollino archive REFERENCE National and international OPACs (service on demand) Databases and multimedial products consultation SERVICES Self-service photocopying Bibliographic reference Desiderata service (contact mrs. Angela Angelini, tel.: 011-090 6722) Video library CD-ROM consultation Reading and printing microfilms. Local scanning Wi-Fi service: In the library hall there is the active Wi-Fi service to access to the wireless Politecnico net. For information consult the site: wifi.polito.it Equipments for the users: 6 computers 2 colours A4 scanners 1 microforms reader/printer 1 stative for photographic reproductions INITIATIVES Introductive lessons: The library, at the beginning of every academic year, in cooperation with the libraries Information services center and on professors demand, keeps introductory courses on bibliographic researches and to the library use for all the students. The library week: BCA organizes for the students, at the beginning of the academic year, a cycle of introductive communications on the library use, kept at the library site. Coordinations The library is member of the CNBA (National coordination of the architecture libraries) and of the establishing AAA/Italia (National association of the contemporary architecture archives Italia) SHELVING (ORGANIZATION OF MATERIAL) Open shelves INDEXING CDU SEATS 140 LOCATION MARKS LEGEND Rare collection: "D" (es.: d/711 cit) Large formats: "G" (es.: g/711 ras) Bibliographic reference works: "R" (es.:r/03.8 diz) Videotapes: "V" (es.: v/711 ros) CD-ROM: "C" (es.: C/72.036 (BOTTA)BOT) Microforms: "M" (es.: M/002BRI) Lendable books: "S" (es.: S/711(45)COM)

ADDRESS School of Architecture Viale Mattioli 39 10125, Torino Tel: 011-090 6701 Fax: 011-090 6798 E-mail: scrivia/bibli+infobca OPENING HOURS CLOSING HOURS The Library will communicate the opening hours reduction during summer holidays, Christmas and Easter. HEAD LIBRARIAN Prof. Sergio Pace Tel: 011-090 6702 E-mail: scrivia/bibli+resp_architettura BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENTS Rossella Fiorentino (journals) Tel. 011-090 6702 E-mail: scrivia/rossella+fiorentino Monica Margara (rare) Tel. 011-090 6726 E-mail: scrivia/monica+margara ARCHIVES Curator: Prof. Elena Tamagno Tel. 011-090 6511 Referent: Santino Todaro Tel. 011-090 6704 - 011-6507455 You can ask for an appointment Wednesday and Thursday from 10 to 1 a.m. E-mail: scrivia/bibli+archivi LIBRARIANS Isabella Cabutto Daniela Campazzo Benedetta Desantis Rossella Fiorentino Monica Margara Simonetta Mombelli Alessandra Paris Santino Todaro Anna Varda ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL Angela Angelini OTHER PERSONNEL 64 scholarship holders HISTORICAL NOTES The "first" School of Architecure library of the Turin Politecnico, established in 1958, held about a thousand books and journals. Prof. Roberto Gabetti was the library director until 1986, when the Library system was born. The library occupied two rooms at the third floor of the nord-west tower of the Valentino castle. In 1968, the first "General catalogue of books and periodicals" was published: the periodicals were 150, the books 6000. In 1971 the library moved to the two long saloons next to the Botanic garden. The superior hall collected books and journals; in the low ground hall was established the Cartographic section, the Theses section, the Piemonte section. The last section collected all the monographs about the cultural, artistic, architectural and urban history of our region. In 1973 the library acquired some archival materials, among them the professional archive of Carlo Mollino. In 1982 a new relocation moved the library in the ex -aeronautical laboratories (south courtyard), where it still has its office. During those years, the director Roberto Gabetti, at one opening of the academic year, said:"the connection between philosophy and technology is fundamental for the architect's education … and, as the schools of architecture have a recent history, and their reorganization go back to even more recent decades, the italian architecure libraries lack of collections of historical relevance: therefore we need, to join to the acquisition of the up to date materials, a deep analysis of the antique catalogues in order to reform from the beginning all the bibliographic references we need to support the existing researches…" So, the architecture library is a rich library, able to keep a link with the past, acquiring antique texts and, at the same time, linked to the present with the constant acquisition of up to date materials. At the present the Library acquires around 3000 new volumes per year. A library historical profile was delineated on the occasion of the exhibition promoted by the prof. Elena Tamagno, who was the Architecture central library manager, to show the collection "Luca Beltrami", acquired by the library. For the historical profile see: Politecnico di Torino … Castello del Valentino, 7 luglio 1988.