- The Senate Library, or the Biblioteca del Senato della Repubblica "Giovanni Spadolini", and the Library of the Chamber of Deputies, or the Biblioteca della Camera dei deputati are major collections that focus primarily on politics.
- See the Senate library's homepage and the Chamber of Deputies library's homepage for more information.
- There are still two catalogs that must be searched separately for materials acquired before the above dates. These consist ofdigitized images of their card catalog:
- You will probably need help to search these catalogs. Pleaseask a librarian.
- Edit16,an Italian catalog of printed books published in Italian from 1501-1600
- Bibliografia romana includes bibliographic citations of materials published since 1999 on the subject of the city of Rome, from the early Middle Ages to the present.
Digitized Italian ResourcesYou can search digitized Italian resources through the Extend Search function and selecting Biblioteca Digitale Italiana. This will search for materials in a large number of Italian digital projects. There are others, however. Here are links to some of them:
- OPAL - libri antichi. This site concentrates on books before 1900, but there are some newer books as well.
- Liber liber This site includes biographical information on authors, plus there are several audio files for download as well.
- Biblioteca Italiana This site concentrates primarily from medieval to the 1900s.
Many catalogs can be searched through the Extend Search function of the AUR Library Catalog. Click
here for more information.