National Central Library of Rome

The National Central Library of Rome heritage increased since 1875, year of its institution, through three channels of access: legal deposit, purchases and gifts .

The acquisition of many librarian funds owned by eminent personage of culture - first of all Ruggero Bonghi -  increased the Library's heritage with prestigious collections, sometimes unique.

One of the most significant acquisitions of the last decades is the one related to Enrico Falqui's library, that together with a specific politic purchase on rare and precious editions, autographical documents  and literary archives , gave to the Library a particularly rich documentation about 20th century Italian literature.

The reading rooms, born the day after the Library's relocation to the current site (1975) and completely renewed today, constitute the central core of the collections development.

At the moment the Library owns:

6 millions of volumes
8.000 manuscripts
120.000 autograph
2.000 incunabula
25.000 editions of the XVI century
20.000 geographical maps
10.000 prints and pictures
50.000 headings
34.000 doctorate degree thesis

Audio-visual and multimedia heritage increases constantly. The bookcases of librarian deposit cover a linear space of 112 km.