Libraries in Florence

This list of libraries is not exaustive. You may wish to use the Portal for the History of Florence  (Storia di Firenze) and its list of Libraries and other Florentine Cultural Institutions  to find more about libraries in Florence and the list of libraries edited by the Comune di Firenze .

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• Italian, Tuscan and Florentine libraries  (OPAC's)
• Florentine Libraries with important history collections 

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 Italian, Tuscan and Florentine Libraries: 

• Italian Internet library catalogues (OPACs) directory : the list of all Italian library catalogues available online 
• Collective catalogue of Tuscan Libraries (MetaOpac) 
• Catalogue of the COBIRE: Coordinamento Biblioteche della Regione Toscana   (Tuscan Region Libraries Catalogue)
• The IRIS consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence  is an association of Florentine area art history and humanities libraries.
• SBN National Library Service Information  : collective catalogue of Italian Libraries.
• MAI - Meta-OPAC Azalai Italiano : Cumulative query in Italian library catalogues.
• Meta-Catalogue of the Italian University Libraries   is a cumulative catalogue for Italian University Libraries
• The SDIAF - Sistema Documentario Integrato dell'Area Fiorentina  allows access to several Florentine Libraries.
• Access to the network fo Libraries of Florence University 

 

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Florentine Libraries with important history collections  :

• Accademia dei Georgofili , the library has an online catalogue  for books and journals starting (1992-). (Address: Logge degli Uffizi Corti - 50122 FIRENZE, Tel. +39 55 213.360 - 212.114 Fax +39 55 230.2754 )
• Online catalogue of the library of the Archivio Fotografico Toscano  (Via Santa Caterina 17 - 59100 Prato, tel. 0574 1835149-50-51 fax 0574 1837310 e-mail info@aft.it Library 
• Archive  of the Associazione Nazionale "Sandro Pertini"  (via Buonarroti, 13 - 50122 Firenze; Telefono: (+39) 055.244811, Fax: (+39) 055.243123, e-mail: associazione.pertini@pertini.it )
• Biblioteca dell'Accademia della Crusca .  (Via di Castello, 46, 50141 Firenze (Italia), tel. (+39) 055-454277/78, fax (+39) 055-454279, e-mail biblioteca@crusca.fi.it 
• Biblioteca delle Oblate   (via dell'Oriuolo 26 50122 Firenze; tel. 055 261 6512 fax 055 261 6519, email bibliotecadelleoblate@comune.fi.it )
• The Berenson Library : Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. "The Biblioteca Berenson is one of the world’s leading resources for research on the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in Italy.
• Biblioteca Luigi Crocetti , di biblioteconomia, archivistica e scienza della documentazione, Tuscan Region.
• Library and Archives of the "Fondazione Spadolini - Nuova Antologia ". (Via Pian dei Giullari, 139 50125 - Firenze, Tel. 055 687521 - Fax 055 2298425, nuovaantologia@cosimoceccuti.191.it )
• Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento (No Internet site ) Via S. Egidio, 21, tel. 0552480561. 
• Biblioteca Leonardiana . (Via G. La Pira, 1 - 50059 Vinci - tel. 0039 0571 56590  fax 0039 0571 567976, e-mail: biblioteca@comune.vinci.fi.it.)
• Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana . (Piazza San Lorenzo n° 9 - 50123 Firenze, Tel. (++39)055/211590 - 210760 - 214443 (Ufficio amministrativo). Fax 055/2302992).
• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale  - BNCF. This is the national Italian library and the most important library for Italian materials; (Piazza Cavalleggeri, 1 - 50122 FIRENZE - tel.  055/249191  - fax 055/2342482 - e-mail: info@bncf.firenze.sbn.it )
• Biblioteca Riccardiana , "The exceptionally precious manuscript heritage features autograph works by Petrarch, Boccaccio, Savonarola and the greatest Humanists (Alberti, Ficino, Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola) as well as splendid illuminated codices, magnificent bindings and precious nuclei from other aristocratic and humanist libraries, the correspondence of famous men, and numerous rare works related to the theatre, the pharmacopoeia, travel, history and literature." (Palazzo Medici Riccardi - Via Ginori, 10 - 50123 Firenze, Tel. +39 055 212586/293385 - Fax +39 055 211379, E-mail riccardiana@riccardiana.firenze.sbn.it )
• Istituto Genealogico Italiano - Biblioteca Guelfi Camajani : Cultural Institution for Heraldic and Genealogical Studies founded in 1877. (Associazione Italiani nel Mondo - Via S. Spirito, 27 - 50125 Firenze, Italy - Tel: +39055213090 - 055289138 - Fax: +39055289643 - email: info@genealogia.it ).
• Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario - G.P. Vieusseux . The Gabinetto Vieusseux offers access to primary sources and materials (books and journals) specialized in the history of the Italian and European XIXth century and especially dealing with the cutural and literary history of the XIXth century. You have access to the XIXth century culture in all European languages. The Library catalogue is accessible online  directly and also through the SDIAF (Sistema Documentario Integrato dell'Area Fiorentina ). A list of scholarly journals in all languages available in the Vieusseux Library and published during the XIXth century: Elenco Riviste '800 Possedute dal Gabinetto Vieusseux . (Address: Piazza Strozzi, 50123 Firenze, Tel. 055288342 - Fax 0552396743.)
• Library and Archive of the Fondazione di Studi Storici Filippo Turati 

• The IRIS consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence  is an association of Florentine area art history and humanities libraries. The member institutes have joined together to create a union catalog (a shared bibliographic database) available in Internet to scholars all over the world. Members of the IRIS Consortium are: the Biblioteca Berenson (Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies); the Library of the Dutch University Institute for Art History; the Library of the Uffizi (Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze); the Library of the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi; the Library of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento; the «Ugo Procacci» Library of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure; the Library of the Università Internazionale dell'Arte; the Leonardiana Library at Vinci; the Bill Kent Library (Monash University Prato.

• Library and Archive of the Istituto Storico della Resistenza in Toscana  (Archive & Library, Via Carducci, 5/37 – 50121 Firenze, Tel. 055 284296 – email: isrt@istoresistenzatoscana.it )

• The Harold Acton Library at the British I nstitute, Florence. ( Opening Hours: Monday – Friday, 10.00 – 18.30; Address: Palazzo Lanfredini, Lungarno Guicciardini 9, 50125 Firenze, email: library@britishinstitute.it  website: http://www.britishinstitute.it/ 

• Museo  Gallileo . The Library materials , primary source materials and online database catalogues and e-sources are dealing with the History of Science. (50122 Firenze - Piazza dei Giudici 1, tel.  +39 055 265311  , fax +39 055 2653130).
• Library of the Istituto Geografico Militare . (via C. Battisti, 10, 50122 FIRENZE (IT) Tel: 0552732224 Fax: 055282172)
• Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", The Library . The Institute's Library is offering an online access to the TOC's of Italian scientific journals and, in general, an electronic version of historical writings and essays related to the activities of the Institution. (Palazzo Benini, Via Muzzi 38, I - 59100 PRATO - Tel.  0574 604187  - Fax 0574 604297 - email: datini@istitutodatini.it )
• Biblioteca dell'INSR, Istituto Nazionale per la Storia del Rinascimento 
  Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi, Firenze, tel.: 055287728. Open to the public, from Monday to Friday, 9:00 - 17:15.)
• Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München - Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut), Rom. The Art Libraries Network Florence - Munich - Rome  (Kubikat) gives online access to the catalogues of these three German research libraries specializing in the history of art, one of which is in Florence: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz  - Max-Planck-Institut, Via Giuseppe Giusti 44, I-50121 Firenze, Italia, tel.:  0039-055-249-11-1  - Fax: 0039-055-249-11-55.
• Università di Firenze: Sistema bibliotecario di Ateneo . (Coordinamento Centrale Biblioteche: Via del Parione, 7 50123 Firenze, Tel. 055.2757706-03, cell. 3807866788 Fax 055.2757702)
• Università di Firenze: Sistema bibliotecario di Ateneo: Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali.  (Biblioteca di Scienze sociali: Via delle Pandette, 2 50127 Firenze, Tel. 055.4374010 Fax 055.4374955)
• Università di Firenze: Sistema bibliotecario di Ateneo: Biblioteca Umanistica  (Biblioteca Umanistica: Piazza Brunelleschi, 4 50121 Firenze, Tel. 055/2757811; Fax 055/243471)
• Università di Firenze: Sistema bibliotecario di Ateneo: Cataloghi dei Fondi e delle Collezioni Speciali. 
• Società Dantesca Italiana. Library and online catalogue : (The Library rooms are open for consultation and borrowing at the following times: Monday - Friday 09.30-13.30 and Thursday 09.30-17.30.)
• Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Fiesole - Fondo Bandini.  
• Library of the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti.   (Via Ghibellina 7, 50122 Firenze, Tel. 055-241752)
• The Biblioteca Innocenti Library  (Alfredo Carlo Moro)was established in 2001 as the result of a cooperation project between the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre  and the Istituto degli Innocenti .  The library is located inside the old Ospedale degli Innocenti; it offers to its public a wealth of about 19.000 documents on childhood and adolescence.(Opening hours: : Dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 9,30 alle 17,30. Tel: 055/2037363  - fax: 055/2037205, informazioni: info@istitutodeglinnocenti.it .)
• BPND: Catalogo della biblioteca pedagogica nazionale (monografie)  Online archives of articles and journals in the Science of Education, available in multiple languages, selected and indexed. LGI: a database of publications and youth literature published in Italy since 1979, divided into two sections: 1979-1985  e 1986-1997  and  Dia (Digital Image Archive) : a vast archive of images useful for multimedia teaching activities
• Istituto Stensen , fondazione culturale: (tel 055 576551- fax 055 582029 , SEDE: viale don Minzoni 25/c , Florence, Italy) and the library of the Istituto Stensen with special collections for the Jesuits: Jesuit authors of 3000 volumes, of which 1000 by and about Teilhard de Chardin, complete collection of magazines like "La Civiltà Cattolica" and "Etudes", and a complete collection of the Monumento Historica Societatis Iesus.