National Central Library of Rome

The National Central Library of Rome owns one of the richest newspapers' collections in national areas: the collection (that consists of 2000 newspapers headings and 800 weekly magazines, 2000 documentations from public sources) starts from the XVIII century gazettes and increases together with the printing's development of daily and weekly information. Regarding the last one, there's a complete documentation of popular headings of the early XX century, from the birth of newsmagazine to modern publishing. Obligatory deposit of printed newspapers is the main core of the collection, including many foreign headings of international relevance. The collection is also represented in a catalog (Alberta Pannain Bertone, Catalogo dei giornali, Roma: IPZS, 1992) furnished with chronological and geographical indexes.

Newspapers are among the most fragile documents of the whole Library, because of the paper's low-quality in which they are and were made of, and because of the oxidation process. For that reason many newspapers are available in microfilm (more than 40.000 reels) and the collection is currently subject of microfilming in order to permit consultation and any type of reproduction of original papers avoiding damages, and the Library provides their conservation in long term. Newspapers could be consulted in the Emeroteca . The original papers of Microfilmed newspapers are not available for readings, (location: GIORN), and is therefore obligatory to require the microfilm (location: MF.P), because microfilms locations  are not yet included in Ermes system . At the present moment a catalog of newspapers and periodicals on microfilm is available in Emeroteca.
It is not allowed to photocopy the originals, but it is possibile to require a photo. All the reproduction requests with publication or broadcast purposes should be sent to the "Ufficio Riproduzioni" .