LIBRARIES

The central library of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, established in 1936, is one of the largest specialist institutions in the geophysical sector at an international level. The documentary collections develop the Institute's research themes: Seismology, Volcanology, Physics of the Upper Atmosphere and the Interior of the Earth, Geochemistry, Seismic and Volcanic Risk.
The library is open to the public and guarantees bibliographic research to those who request it through the "Ask the librarian" form. The services provided are: on-site photocopies in compliance with current copyright regulations, consultation of books and magazines in electronic and paper format, the document delivery service through the NILDE and ACNP channels and interlibrary loan. No loan is made to external users except through other libraries that guarantee the same services, the correctness of the loan procedures and any damage or loss of the document. The library has about 8000 modern volumes, 200 volumes of historical value, 150 current periodicals and 500 electronic journals, 7000 maps: geological, topographic and a collection of bathymetric maps. 

"The library will be closed from 24 July to 25 August inclusive"
 
Address: Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome
Phone: 0651860470
Fax: +0651860435
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Opening hours: Monday-Thursday from 9.00-13.00 and from 14.00-15.30, Friday from 9.00-13.00 
Library staff: Gabriele Ferrara,

The Library of the Etna Observatory in Catania, named after the volcanologist Rittmann, has about 1300 volumes cataloged and divided by theme mainly oriented towards geophysical, geological, volcanological and environmental disciplines. The library has about 105 subscriptions to national and international journals in paper format, from 1968 to the present, and about 500 subscriptions to centrally managed online journals. New books of scientific interest proposed by the staff are periodically purchased.
Books and magazines are available for consultation and loan.
The library is open to the public by appointment on established days and is engaged in the exchange of documents with the other INGV libraries and with anyone who requests it.
• Address: Piazza Roma 2, 95125 Catania
• Telephone: +39 095 7165819 Fax: 39 095 435801
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Opening hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 09.30 to 12.30, by appointment by telephone or by e-mail.
Library staff: Alfio Amantia, Elisabetta Giampiccolo, Gianpiero Aiesi

 The Library of the Naples section, Osservatorio Vesuviano is a specialized library in the field of earth sciences, particularly rich in books on volcanology, seismology, meteorology, and contains some works of particular interest for the history of earth sciences in general. Its historical nucleus is in the collection of Teodoro Monticelli (perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences of Naples), purchased, in the second half of the 10th century, by the director of the Luigi Palmieri Observatory; this nucleus, made up, among other things, of 64 sixteenth-century and 900 seventeenth-century works by Italian authors such as: della Torre, Braccini, Giuliani, Breislak, Monticelli, as well as those by Hamilton, Schmidt, Roth, Fuchs, Phillips, up to arrive at the works of Johnston-Lavis and Frank A. Perret, dated to the early 328s. The modern section includes volumes on volcanology, geochemistry, physics of volcanism, seismology, geophysics, as well as scientific journals pertaining to the research fields developed by the institution. The Historical Section and the Modern Section are located in the scientific-administrative headquarters in Via Diocleziano 8, Naples. The Periodicals Section, the largest (several hundreds of journal titles), is located partly in the premises of the historic headquarters, in Herculaneum, on the slopes of Vesuvius, partly in those of the scientific-administrative headquarters (in the latter the last ten years of current magazines). The consultation of the material, as well as the request for bibliographic information and the document delivery service are allowed to everyone, in the premises of the scientific-administrative office, from Monday to Friday, from 30:13 to 00:14; 00:16-15:XNUMX.

Address: Via Diocleziano 328, 80124 Naples
Phone: 081 6108553

Fax: +081618459
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Opening hours: Monday-Friday: 8:30-13:00; 14:00-16:15

Library staff: Rosanna Altavilla, Daniela Bianco and Marina Loddo

Library site

The holdings of the library of the Palermo section of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) are strongly characterized in the geochemical and volcanological fields. It includes reference books, monographs, periodicals, encyclopaedias, bulletins and reports and collects the volumes owned by the library of the Institute of Fluid Geochemistry (IGF), an organ of the National Research Council, which in January 2001 merges into the new institution ( INGV). 

The Library of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology at the Lerici site is a specialized technical-scientific structure included in the INGV library system and in the SBN Ligure Pole and operates at a local level. It helps to disseminate information, documents and multimedia material to professors, student researchers and citizens.

The documentary heritage is mainly of a geological and geophysical nature and mostly electronic.
In order to manage the library service in the Lerici office there is a librarian contact person who, given the specificity of the sector, acts simultaneously as a consultant, expert and "facilitator" in the use of the library for users, thus guaranteeing a quality service.

Address: Via Santa Teresa, 1
Locality of Pozzuolo di Lerici
19032 Lerici (La Spezia)
Phone: 0187 978288
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Opening hours: by appointment
Library staff: Marina Locritani