Simonetta ButtòIstituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU), MiBAC

Simonetta Buttò (Roma 1957), laureata in Letteratura italiana alla Sapienza-Università di Roma e specializzata in Filologia moderna e in Codicologia ha diretto la Biblioteca universitaria di Genova, la Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea di Roma, la Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III” di Napoli e dal maggio 2015 dirige l’Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche. A partire dal 1998 è stata docente in diverse università italiane, fra cui L’Aquila, Pisa, Siena, Roma (Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archivisti e Librari della Sapienza e Scuola di Alta Formazione dell’Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario del MiBAC). Direttore responsabile di «DigItalia: rivista del digitale nei beni culturali», è socio corrispondente dell’Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, socio ordinario del Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani, rappresentante del MiBACT in seno al Consiglio Direttivo dell’Accademia Lancisiana e componente del Comitato scientifico e di lettura della collana “Pagine diverse” dell’editore Pacini di Pisa. Nel 2018 è stata insignita del Premio Giambattista Gifuni per la diffusione del libro e della lettura.

Fra reti europee e servizi ai cittadini: strategie e modelli innovativi per l’accesso al patrimonio culturale digitale

Il contributo intende offrire una panoramica delle attività svolte dall’Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane-ICCU sia nell’ambito delle reti europee per il digitale e la ricerca, che per lo sviluppo dei servizi bibliografici nazionali. L’ICCU infatti partecipa da almeno 15 anni allo sviluppo di infrastrutture digitali per la fruizione del patrimonio culturale e di quelle dedicate alla gestione dei prodotti della ricerca scientifica nel campo delle Digital humanities, con l’obiettivo di favorire una nuova cultura del digitale che punti sulla diffusione dei dati aperti e sul riuso dei contenuti digitali delle biblioteche e degli altri istituti culturali, sia a livello delle politiche nazionale che in ambito europeo. In questo contesto di ampliamento delle reti internazionali si colloca anche il rafforzamento della cooperazione fra istituzioni nazionali: l’ICCU infatti ha recentemente dato l’avvio, dopo una lunga fase di studio, alla realizzazione di un Sistema di ricerca integrato e catalogo generale delle risorse descritte nelle principali banche dati gestite dall’ICCU che costituirà uno strumento di visibilità nazionale del lavoro trentennale svolto da tutte le istituzioni bibliotecarie, oggi quasi 6400 di ogni appartenenza amministrativa e anche private, aderenti a SBN. Nel nuovo modello informativo, i dati presenti in Indice SBN, nella biblioteca digitale di Internet culturale e i singoli database specialistici, in primo luogo Manus on line per i manoscritti e EDIT16 per le edizioni del Cinquecento, saranno accessibili a partire da un’interfaccia unica che rappresenterà un vero e proprio portale delle biblioteche e degli istituti culturali italiani offerto alla cittadinanza, una piattaforma di servizi informativi in grado di offrire al pubblico una nuova esperienza di navigazione tra record di catalogo arricchiti e risorse digitali, anche di natura diversa da quella bibliografica.

Between European networks and services to citizens: innovative strategies and models for access to digital cultural heritage

This talk will offer an overview of the activities carried out by the Istituto Centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU - Central institute for the union catalogue of Italian libraries) both in the context of European networks for research digital innovation and in the frame of the development of national bibliographic services. The ICCU has been developing for more than 15 years digital infrastructures for cultural heritage and for the management of research products in the humanities, supporting approaches aimed at disseminating open data and re-using the digital contents of libraries and other cultural institutes, both at the national and the European levels. Along with the development of international networks strengthening the cooperation between national institutions has also been central. After a lengthy study phase, the ICCU recently started the creation of an integrated research system and union catalogue of the resources described in the data bases managed by the ICCU. This will be a valuable tool providing visibility at the national level for the thirty-year work carried out by all the library institutions affiliated with SBN, currently number in almost 6400 and belonging to different administrations or private subjects. The data in the SBN Index, in the Internet Culturale digital library and in single specialised databases, such as Manus online for manuscripts and EDIT16 for sixteenth century prints, will be accessible from a single interface, which will be a true portal to Italian libraries and cultural institutes offered to the citizenship. Thus, such an information services platform will enable users with a new browsing experience, integrating enriched catalogue records and digital resources, even of a different nature than the bibliographic one.

Ole GustavsenRector, School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Oslo

Ole Gustavsen (Holmestrand 1959) is an Oslo-based architect and designer, current Rector of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and current Rector of Nordic Academy of Architecture, a network of all the Nordic and Baltic Schools of Architecture. He joined Snøhetta in 1994 and was appointed Managing Director in 1996 and led the day-to-day operations for the entire office for 13 years. Ole has been one of the key voices promoting the unique and diverse working methodologies at Snøhetta and also one of key drivers in the office related to research and development projects. He is current a member of the board of directors in the company. Ole was appointed the Rector of The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) in 2014 and has just been appointed again for a new period of 4 years, overseeing the academic and administrative work at AHO for the period 2018-2022.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The rise of a building

The revival of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina began in Egypt in the mid-1970s and was eventually internationally embraced. UNESCO and UIA organized an architectural competition and awarded the honor to the Norwegian firm Snøhetta in 1988. In 1990 UNESCO’s International Commission for the Revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria expressed a formidable vision for the new library. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina will stand as a testimony to a decisive moment in the history of human thought - the attempt to constitute a summon of knowledge, to assemble the writings of all the peoples. It will bear witness to an original undertaking that, in embracing the totality and diversity of human experience, became the matrix for a new spirit of critical inquiry, for a heightened perception of knowledge as a collaborative process.

Santi Romero studied architecture in Barcelona. Master’s degree in Architecture by the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura of Barcelona in 1989. From 1990 to 1993 he worked in Taller de Arquitectura Ricardo Bofill, and in 1993 he joined the Library Services Management Office of the Diputació de Barcelona. Since 2005 he has been the Head of the Library Architecture Unit. His work, which focuses on consultation for, and control of, projects and works for the public libraries in the province, has involved him in interventions on more than 150 libraries for most of which the furnishing project was also undertaken. He has been involved in special library projects in other parts of Spain. He has attended, participated and given conferences and courses in different congresses, both national and international, for both architects and librarians. He has written numerous articles in national and international publications. He has served on the panel of judges for a number of library architecture awards, and was also a member of the committee responsible for creating the Catalonia Public Libraries Standards, published in 2008. He is author of the book: “Library Architecture: Recommendations for a comprehensive research project”, which has been published

in Spanish, Catalan and English. In his capacity as a Spanish expert, he has been a member of the international working group that drafted the Technical Report ISO/TR 11219 “Qualitative conditions and basic statistics for library buildings”. Since 2005 he has been a member of the IFLA Library Building and Equipment Section Standing Committee.

Designing new library buildings

Buildings that house libraries are breaking with traditional ideas of what a library should be. Libraries are transforming to adapt to the new reality and are hosting an ever more extensive range of activities. Alongside the spaces needed to store and consult information, libraries are now home to spaces where people can meet and interact, be creative, study, work in groups, upgrade their skills, rest and relax, as well as spaces for exhibitions, presentations, concerts and bars. As institutions which enjoy widespread social acceptance, libraries are also able to encourage other types of services and so, in many cases, become genuine focal points for cultural and educational activities in their respective communities. I will be listing the trends that are determining the future of both public and university libraries, paying particular attention to the trends which have an impact on physical space, and must therefore be taken into account when designing and constructing buildings. These trends are linked to library users, library collections, improving existing services and incorporating new ones, and to changes in the way libraries are being organized and managed. I will also be discussing the importance of producing a clearly-defined activity programme and establishing whether library systems, both academic and public, have determined the model that they wish to employ. This information is key to be able to carry out a suitable architectural project. In my closing remarks, I will deal with the use of historical buildings, and how best to assess their advantages and disadvantages, in the construction of these new libraries.

Santi Romero GaruzLibrary Buildings and Equipment Section

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

Marcella Rognoni is Director of the Library System at the University of Genoa; former Director of the Social Science Library and the Humanities Library. She has a degree in humanities sciences, and she’s working in libraries since 1992; she has deepened her studies in the field of library management. Main experiences: management of libraries; ancient book, periodicals and electronic resources, digitization of cultural heritage.

University libraries, universal libraries

The needs of conservation, organization and restoration, together with the challenges of the opening hypercomplex era of hyperfast communication, have triggered a project in the Library System of the University of Genova, a manifold mixture of small and large scale transformations. The general objective is a metamorphose of the whole system, with the ambition of realizing not just the due updating, but perhaps a sustainable model for a new generation university library system. Some of these projects are being accomplished in this very moment, others will take off in the near future and yet others need the injection of ideas and the active participation of the world experts and maitres à penser that this conference wants to promote. Poetry, science, political and religious visions have been printed in books which are kept in buildings that we call libraries. Roughly thirty years ago the tangible nature of a paper page was paired with the less tangible concept of bit, but the home of bytes is yet to be built. Arguably, it is the world, where no walls need to be erected to protect them from fire because they do not burn. Yet Europe, Italy, and certainly Genova, host large collections of books in old buildings with historical an artistic value that pose very serious general questions. The words “books, buildings and bytes” may serve as the title of the ongoing story on where we stand in the process of redefining the very concept of library, in the search of a universal notion.

Marcella RognoniUniversità di Genova (UNIGE)

Filippo De Mari is Associate Professor in Mathematical Anaysis. He got his Ph.D in Mathematics in 1987 at Washington University in St. Louis (USA) and then held postdoctoral positions at the Institut für Dynamische Systeme of the University of Bremen, (Germany) and at the Politecnico di Torino. Since 1992 he is at the University of Genova, as “ricercatore” first (1992-98) and as Associate Professor then (1998-present). He served as President of the Mathematics and Computer Science Library, 2005-2012. Since 2012 ihe is a member of the Board of Directors (Consiglio di Amministrazione) of the University of Genova. He is President of Biarritz Studio di Arti e Pensiero. His primary scientific interests are in Harmonic Analysis, with particular focus on localization operators, metaplectic representation, Wigner transform, Gabor analysis, coorbit space theory, reproducing formulae, Radon transform, square-integrable representations and analysis on semisimple Lie groups. He has also worked on Toda-type flows on Hessenberg manifolds and on multicontact and multiconformal mappings on boundaries of symmetric spaces.

Filippo De MariUniversità di Genova (UNIGE)

Lauro Magnani is Professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Genoa. He has published some essays about art patronage (1987, 2009, 2010), and he has been national coordinator of a research project on Art collecting in the Baroque age ( publication of this research Roma, 2014).Since 1999 he coordinated, together with colleagues of the Faculty of Engineering, the elaboration of a series of experimental 3D models applied to historic architecture and artistic objects.He has been the founder of the Centre for the Study of Mannerist and Baroques Arts, Architecture and Literature, which is based in the “DIRAAS” department of the University of Genoa, is a member of the board of the “Museo Diocesano” in Genoa. He is Delegate for the conservation and the communication of the cultural patrimony of the University of Genoa ( publication about this thema, Genova 2014).The core areas on which his work is focused on:– Studies on Genoese gardens and villas ( 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994,

2000, 2002) led to the publication of a monograph devoted to the topic (1987, revised second edition 2005);– The study of post-tridentine imagery in figurative arts: as coordinator of specific projects he has published works on the iconographies preferred by religious Orders (1992, 1995, 1996), as well as on Genoese artistic production after the Council of Trento and its developments in the 17th century. He has been co-curator of a monograph about architecture, art and iconography in the female monasteries in Genoa ( 2011);– The studies about the 16th-century painter Luca Cambiaso (1978, 2002, 2009, 2011);– Baroque painting in Genoa, with monographs and essays ( 1990, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2012). The analysis of the fresco decorations of the palaces and villas of the Genoese aristocracy, which aims at enhancing the close relationship linking landscapes, buildings, decoration and art collections;– Studies on 17th-century sculpture (1988, 2003, 2006), with essays written for the catalogue of the exhibitions “Genova nell’Età Barocca” (1992) and “Pierre Puget” (1994 and 1995), of which he was co-curator.– In-depth analyses of works by great artists of modern Europe: Correggio (2011 e 2012), Barocci (2009), Caravaggio (2011), Andrea Pozzo (2011), Daniele Crespi (2006), Rembrandt ( 2006 and 2007).

Architetture, immagini, libri: una storia negli spazi del Collegio gesuitico e della Chiesa dei Santi Gerolamo e Francesco Saverio

Lauro MagnaniUniversità di Genova (UNIGE)

Gli spazi della sede storica dell’Ateneo genovese e quelli attigui della ex Biblioteca Universitaria, nella chiesa dei santi Girolamo e Francesco Saverio, hanno visto stratificarsi nel tempo diverse strategie comunicative. Pagine scritte e immagini hanno registrato modalità e volontà diverse di coniugare progetti culturali, volontà politiche, ideologie. L’intervento vuole sottolineare come anche dall’analisi di quegli spazi e dalla memoria di quei luoghi debba partire un’ipotesi attuale di uso.

Architectures, images, books: a story in the space of the ‘Collegio dei Gesuiti’ and ‘Santi Gerolamo e Francesco Saverio’ Church

The spaces of the historic headquarters of the Genoese University and those adjacent to the former University Library, in the ‘Santi Girolamo and Francesco Saverio’ Church, have seen different communication strategies stratify over the years. Written pages and images have recorded different ways and wills to combine cultural projects, political wills and ideologies. The oral presentation wants to underline how a current hypothesis of use should start also from the analysis of those spaces and from their memory.

Paolo BensiUniversità di Genova (UNIGE)

Paolo Bensi è laureato in Chimica Industriale e in Lettere nell’Università di Genova. Dal 1982 al 2001 è stato docente nella Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti di Genova. Dal 2001 al 2009 professore associato del SSD L-ART04 nella Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Seconda Università di Napoli; dal 2009 professore associato nel Dipartimento Architettura e Design della Scuola Politecnica dell’Ateneo di Genova, docente di “Storia sociale dell’arte” nel Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Design del Prodotto e dell’Evento e di “Storia delle tecniche artistiche” nella Scuola di Specializzazione in Architettura e Paesaggio. Collabora con l’Opificio delle Pietre Dure e con la Fondazione Longhi di Firenze; fa parte del Comitato Scientifico del Convegno “Scienza e Beni Culturali” e del Consiglio Direttivo del Gruppo Italiano dell’I.I.C. Autore del testo La vita del colore. Tecniche della pittura veneta dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Genova 2002, è titolare della rubrica “Dentro la pittura” della rivista “Kermes”. Ha pubblicato numerosi saggi dedicati alla storia delle tecniche artistiche dall’età classica al Novecento, alla storia della diagnostica applicata ai beni culturali e alla storia del restauro nelle riviste:

“Arkos”, “Arte/Documento”, “Arte Lombarda”, “Atti dell’Accademia Petrarca di Arezzo”, “Bollettino d’Arte del Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali”, “OttoNovecento”, “Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte”, “Studi di Storia delle Arti”, in volumi miscellanei e negli atti di numerosi convegni scientifici nazionali e internazionali.

“Ornamenti condotti con allegria, dignità et ordine straordinario”: decorazioni pittoriche delle biblioteche

Sin dall’antichità le biblioteche hanno avuto un apparato decorativo, dipinto e scultoreo, a cui era affidato il compito di trasmettere ai fruitori delle raccolte e ai visitatori precetti e allegorie morali, filosofiche, storiche e religiose, come è testimoniato per il Rinascimento italiano ad esempio dai testi di Leon Battista Alberti (De re aedificatoria, VIII, IX) e di Giovan Battista Armenini (De’ veri precetti della pittura, Ravenna 1586, III, VI). In particolare la pittura murale, nelle sue varie tecniche esecutive, oltre alle vetrate, stucchi e sculture, ha avuto una parte preponderante nelle decorazioni degli ambienti destinati sin da principio ad accogliere le raccolte di documenti e di libri, stimolando la creatività di numerosi artisti come, tra gli altri, Melozzo da Forlì, Schiavone, Veronese, Tintoretto, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Strozzi, Luca Giordano, Delacroix, Sargent, Puvis de Chavanne, le cui realizzazioni verranno brevemente mostrate. Importanti cicli pittorici ornano anche le pareti di complessi architettonici nati per altre funzioni che sono stati successivamente utilizzati come biblioteche pubbliche, quali dimore della nobiltà, conventi, chiese, come è avvenuto per l’ex Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova, al centro del presente convegno. Per i dipinti seicenteschi del Piola di quest’ultima saranno fornite in conclusione alcune informazioni sulla tecnica esecutiva, che chi scrive ha potuto esaminare personalmente anni fa.

Stefano F. MussoUniversità di Genova (UNIGE)

Stefano Francesco Musso, architect and full professor of Architectural Restoration, has been Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Director of the School of Specialization for Architectural Heritage and Landscape, member of the Scientific-Technical Committee for Landscape of the Ministry of Cultural Goods and Activities, President of EAAE-European Association for Architectural Education. He is President of SIRA-Italian Society for Architectural Restoration and coordinator of the EAAE-Thematic Network on Conservation. He acted as consultant for ICOMOS International, teaching in training courses by UNESCO (Albania, Israel) and chaired the Expert Group activated by ICOMOS-European Commission within the flagship initiative “Cherishing heritage: developing quality principles for interventions on cultural heritage”, within the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage-2018. He has been visiting professor in many foreign universities: NUS (National University of Singapore), Arthesis University College of Antwerp (Belgium), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Granada (Spain), Ion Mincu University of Architecture and

Urbanism in Bucharest (Romania). He has been external examiner at the UCD-University College Dublin, at the Jon Mincu University in Bucharest and expert for the Research Assessment for Italian, Romanian and Greek Universities. He is member of the PhD board on Conservation of Architectural Heritage of the Politecnico di Milano. He has been member of several juries for international design competitions. He is author of Restoration projects of some monumental buildings and consultant for others. He is author of more than 270 scientific publications on his research themes and about Architectural Education, edited in Italy and abroad.

The rediscovered past. A future to be built

Very few people, not certainly the youngest, remember the former reading room of the University Library in via Balbi3 in Genoa. It closed several years ago and moved to the refurbished former Hotel Columbia in front of Principe’s railway station. Nobody, since then, a part few employees ever saw the frescos by Domenico Piola in the vault of the abs of the baroque church of Santi Gerolamo e Francesco Saverio that hosted until then the Library. Even more, almost nobody, even in the previous decades, ever saw the other frescos and stuccos on the walls of the nave of the church and in its little lateral choirs. They were in fact covered with water-lime colours or simply hidden behind the scaffolds of the depot where nobody could enter. They have been thus simply forgotten after the hard interventions that completely transformed the church, in the thirties of the last century. Even before they were substantially ignored by the public and only studied by historians of art. Their remains are more extended then supposed or imagined until now and are now again visible as a precious “material” trace of a complex and rich past that should be rediscovered by all and put in value. The congress is also the first important occasion to reflect upon the fate of this building/place not to abandon it another time like a sort of “black-hole” within the city centre.

Vincenzo TrombettaUniversità degli Studi di Salerno (UNISA)

Vincenzo Trombetta insegna Lineamenti di storia del Libro e delle Biblioteche al Corso di Laurea in Scienze dei Beni Culturali e Storia dell’Editoria moderna e contemporanea al Corso di Laurea in Editoria e pubblicistica all’Università degli Studi di Salerno. Già funzionario della Biblioteca Universitaria di Napoli conduce un’attività di ricerca dedicata alla storia delle biblioteche e dell’editoria. Socio della Accademia Pontaniana e dell’Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli è membro del comitato scientifico della rivista «Rara Volumina». I suoi contributi sono apparsi in volumi collettivi, cataloghi e riviste specializzate: «Accademie e Biblioteche d’Italia», «Il Bibliotecario», «Bollettino del Museo Bodoniano di Parma», «Nuovi Annali della Scuola Speciale per Archivisti e Bibliotecari», «Paratesto», «Bulletin du bibliophile». Nella collana Crisopoli, promossa dall’Istituto italiano di Studi Filosofici, ha pubblicato Storia della Biblioteca Universitaria di Napoli dal Viceregno spagnolo all’Unità d’Italia (Vivarium, 1995) e Storia e cultura delle biblioteche napoletane. Librerie private, istituzioni francesi e borboniche, strutture postunitarie (Vivarium, 2002). Nella collana di “Studi e ricerche

di storia dell’editoria” della Franco Angeli ha pubblicato: L’editoria napoletana dell’Ottocento (Milano, 2008) e L’editoria a Napoli nel decennio francese (Milano, 2011). Ha curato, inoltre, l’edizione del diario napoletano di Juan Andrés Gli incanti di Partenope (Guida Editore, 1997), la ristampa anastatica delle Memorie storico-critiche della Real Biblioteca Borbonica di Napoli di Lorenzo Giustiniani (Forni Editore, 2008) e la miscellanea Il gusto dei libri (Guida Editore, 2009).

Libri, saperi, uomini nella storia e nel futuro delle biblioteche

Le biblioteche hanno rappresentato non solo i luoghi nei quali si depositano le conoscenze, ma anche dove si accumulano le tracce di uomini che hanno scritto (autori), revisionato (censori), pubblicato (stampatori-editori), ordinato e catalogato (bibliotecari), letto (fruitori) i libri che vi si custodiscono. Un intreccio di figure e di competenze, la cui memoria si materializza negli apparati paratestuali (permessi di stampa, lettere dedicatorie, avvisi ai lettori); si sedimenta in note di possesso, timbri di provenienza, glosse, appunti, note e dediche autografe; si trasmette in cataloghi, indici, reti informatiche. Dietro l’universo libro, e solo attraverso la conservazione degli esemplari preservati nelle biblioteche, è dunque possibile ricostruire sia i saperi che la storia stessa di questi saperi e la loro circolazione.

Carlo OlmoEmeritus, Politecnico di Torino

Carlo Olmo, storico dell’architettura, è stato preside della Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Torino dal 2000 al 2007. Ha insegnato all’École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales di Parigi e al Mit di Boston. Direttore del Dizionario dell’architettura del XX secolo e de «Il Giornale dell’Architettura», è autore tra l’altro di Alle radici dell’architettura contemporanea (Einaudi, 1989; con R. Gabetti) e di La città e le sue storie (Einaudi, 1995; con B. Lepetit). È Professore Emerito dal 1 gennaio 2015.

Il cantiere del libro: metafora e materia

The construction site of the book: metaphor and matter

Werner OechslinEmeritus, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH)

Werner Oechslin is professor of art history and architecture at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH).He studied art history, archeology, philosophy and mathematics in Zurich and Rome. From 1971 to 1974 he was assistant at the University of Zurich. Then, in 1975 and 1978 he taught at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. and in 1979 at the RISD in Providence. After a short period at the FU Berlin 1979/80, where in 1980 he qualified as a university lecturer (Habilitation), he went as professor for five years to Bonn and in 1985 to the Ecole d’Architecture at the University of Geneva. Afterwards Werner Oechslin received a professorship in art history and architecture at the ETH Zurich. In 1987 he taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a visiting professor. From 1987-2006 he was head of the Institute of the History and Theory of Architecture (gta). Werner Oechslin was member of the Board of Trustees at the CCA Montréal and of the consiglio scientifico during the foundation of the Scuola di Architettura in Mendrisio. Since 2003 he is in the management board of the Internationalen

Bauakademie Berlin. Werner Oechslin’s contributions on the history of art and architecture from the 15th to the 20th century have been widely published. He specializes in the theory of architecture, in Baroque, modern architecture and in 18th century as well as in specific problems of architectural drawing and typology and of ephemeral architecture. Some of his publications in the last years are „Stilhülse und Kern: Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos und der evolutionäre Weg zur modernen Architektur” (Zurich/Berne 1994), that 2002 has also been published in English at Cambridge University Press, „Moderne entwerfen. Architektur und Kulturgeschichte” (Cologne 1999) and together with Anja Buschow Oechslin the new edition of „Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Schwyz, Einsiedeln – Vol. I und II” (Bern 2003). He organized various exhibitions, among others “Triumph of Baroque” (Turin/Washington 1999), “Palladio” (Vicenza 1999), “Griechische Klassik. Idee oder Wirklichkeit” (Berlin/Bonn 2002), “Gottfried Semper (Munich/Zurich 2003), “Vincenzo Scamozzi (Vicenza 2003) as well as “Barock-Baumeister und moderne Bauschule aus Vorarlberg” (Bregenz/Austria 2006). From 1981 to 1998 he was co-editor of the art journal „Daidalos” and from 1991 to 1997 also member of the editorial staff of the architectural journal „archithese”. He is the founder of the “Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin” in Einsiedeln, that organizes since 1999 the annual international Baroque summer course and publishes the bulletin „Scholion”.

La biblioteca come forma del sapere

Operiamo attraverso i sensi; il viso dirige il movimento e crea l‘orientamento; con il tasto troviamo l‘oggetto; ed il libro si apre come un mondo ordinato, foglio per foglio con capitoli, indici... tutti i sistemi basati su un ordine d‘alfabeto, parola, grammatica e sintassi. Giusto lipsio chiede per una biblioteca libro, luogo ( punto di riferimento della memoria) e armarium (mezzo d‘ordine fisico del libro). Basta per rappresentare gli ordini (già) formulati dalla cultura e tradizione a garantirci quello che claude clément definisce “comparanda eruditio“: ci muoviamo DENTRO i nostri saperi ed utlizziamo quanto hanno considerato, ordinato e trattato quelli che prima di noi hanno aperto le strade.

Golo MaurerBibliotheca Hertziana, Roma

Golo Maurer studied Art History, Classical Archeology and Medieval History at the LMU Munich, where he completed his PHD with a theses on Michelangelo’s archtectural drawings in 2003. He tought Art History as assistant professor at the universities of Hamburg, Heidelberg and Vienna, where he obtained his venia legendi (habilitation). Since 2015 he is library director at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome.

New books in old buildings. Are bits the solution?

From its origin round 1900 the Bibliotheca Hertziana resides in historic buildings never designed for library use in the tecnical sense. Being situated in the heart of Rome, however, it worked very well as location. This was among the reasons why it was decided to stay there when major reconstructions became necessary in the eraly 1990. The new library building, constructed under huge difficulties and inaugurated in 2013, turned out to be problematic in many senses, although it has been planned explicitely for library use. In the meantime many think that digitization might offer solutions to many of these problems, old and new.

Petra HaukeInstitut für Bibliotheks - und Informationswissenschaft (IBI)

Petra Hauke has obtained her University Degree (M. A.) in History of Arts and in Library and Information Science, Ph.D. in Library and Information Science (Dr. phil.). Petra Hauke serves as lecturer at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, and for the Austrian Library Association’s educational programme. She has served as editor and has authored numerous library science related publications. She has presented many papers internationally-wide at IFLA and other international and national conferences. She has taught on a wide range of library-related subjects at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a host of other universities in Germany and abroad. Her career spans more than 35 years of expertise in both public and academic libraries. Petra Hauke has served as Standing Committee Member for some IFLA Sections since 2005 and is currently active member (Secretary) of the IFLA ENSULIB Special Interest Group (Environment, Sustainability and Libraries).

The Second Hand Library Building – O dear or WOW?

For a long time transforming buildings into libraries that were built for different use was seen as extremely problematic. Would the entire structure meet the special requirements of a public or academic library? Meanwhile in spite of famous, brilliant new libraries, real architectural landmark buildings, a growing interest in transforming existing buildings into libraries can be recognized. Not only Europe is the home of several thousand libraries that are located in old or ancient buildings. Former churches, railway stations, factories, soldier barracks, any kind of baroque buildings, supermarkets etc. are turned into amazing libraries – often worth for library and architecture competitions or environmental awards. It is also the “spirit of the place“ that makes „The WOW Effect“ of a second hand library building that attracts loyal customers, apart from the question of printed, electronic or online resources. To rededicate a building with a former different usage into a library is also some kind of recycling. The transformation opens the challenge for sustainable aspects in library planning. The recycling of an old building means decreasing the ecological footprint of library buildings, not always but possibly in a cost-effective and efficient way. The paper will present outstanding examples of interesting and convincing building conversions from academic as well as public libraries e.g. from Italy, Germany, Austria, and Spain.

Elisa Bricco è professore ordinario di letteratura francese presso il Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Moderne dell’Università di Genova. Membro del collegio del Dottorato in Digital Humanities sin dalla sua creazione nel 2006, si occupa di e-learning e didattica innovativa con l’ausilio delle TIC. Tra i suoi interessi di ricerca vi sono le relazioni tra il testo letterario e le altre forme artistiche, l’intermedialità e la transmedialità, soprattutto nella letteratura francese ultracontemporanea.

Il gruppo di ricerca F@rum: un’esperienza di gestione del patrimonio testuale in rete

Elisa BriccoUniversità di Genova (UNIGE)

Micaela Rossi is Associate Professor in French Language and Translation at the University of Genoa.Her research interests are mainly focused on the analysis of specialized terminologies, on the role of analogy and metaphor in the creation of technical neologisms and on terminology teaching and learning.Among her recent publications: Some observations about metaphor in specialised languages, in Ervas, F., Gola, E., Rossi, M.G. (eds.), Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2017¸ Terminological metaphors and the nomadism of scientific paradigms: Some thoughts on intralinguistic and interlinguistic variation, in A. Picton, P. Drouin, A. Francoeur (eds.), Current trends in terminological variation, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2017; In rure alieno. Métaphores et termes nomades dans les langues de spécialité, Berne, Peter Lang, 2015.

Micaela RossiUniversità di Genova (UNIGE)

The F@rum research team: an experience of managing textual heritage on the Net

L’edizione elettronica di testi antichi può essere considerata come una chance per dare nuova vita a opere che sono ormai dimenticate perché difficilmente reperibili e scarsamente leggibili per un lettore contemporaneo. Il gruppo di ricerca F@rum ha sviluppato e realizzato l’edizione online di un testo del Seicento francese, Les Femmes illustres di G. de Scudéry (1664), rendendolo finalmente fruibile. Il progetto prevede anche lo sviluppo di un Museo virtuale dove il testo diventa il centro di un’avventura di scoperta della cultura seicentesca. La comunicazione mostrerà lo sviluppo e la realizzazione del progetto mettendo in luce gli interrogativi dei ricercatori e le soluzioni adottate insieme alle riflessioni sulla pubblicazione sul web delle opere del passato.

The electronic edition of ancient texts can be considered as a chance to give new life to literary works that are by now forgotten because difficult to find and scarcely readable for a contemporary reader. The F@rum research group has developed and produced the online edition of a 17th century French text, G. de Scudéry’s Les Femmes illustres (1664), making it finally accessible. The project also includes the development of a virtual museum where the text becomes the center of an adventure of discovery of seventeenth-century culture. Our contribution will show the development and the realization of the project highlighting the questions of the researchers and the solutions adopted together with the reflections on the publication on the web of the literary works of the past.