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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the National Central Library.
First of all, I would like to welcome the Honourable Minister, who once again is here in the Library.
We thank him sincerely for the attention he has still wanted to bring to the Library
and for the extraordinary funding that will help solve the problems of the Library.
I would also like to welcome the General Director of the Library, Rossana Rummo,
who has always presented the initiative proposed by the Library,
who is constantly following our demonstrations with an affectionate look.
Today we are here to present the contribution of the new cultural and additional services of the National Library.
The result of a long and laborious approach to funding projects.
Two years ago, when I joined the Library,
I found myself in front of a concession of bar services in the Pro-Rogazzo regime
and in front of another one for the reproduction, on the way to the conclusion.
The local bar already had a status of evident degree,
even though the offer service was not of the best.
To give an example, it was not even possible to turn the catering service
for the events that were organized and hosted.
The Bookshop service, present in all the great European libraries, was suspended.
After the fact that the management, now several years earlier, was failed.
The exhibition area was not used continuously, often being empty during the year.
The salettes for conferences were equipped with low technology
and the conference room was the only one, as you can see,
not to have been interested in the project of restructuring in the 2000s.
In addition, many other spaces of the library were underutilized or misused.
I mean, in particular, the external cable, which had never been used for shows,
and the parking area, which only cost 8,000 euros per year,
and which now, however, costs 220,000 euros.
Finally, there was a classroom dedicated to didactics and, of course, such services did not exist.
Even more serious, as soon as you entered the library,
there was no evidence of its content, nor much less of its main and most important pieces.
The fact that it prevented us from getting to know the specificity,
the impression was that of an anonymous library, without a soul,
an absolute monad that did not know how to communicate.
We therefore operated on more fronts.
First of all, we declared immediately,
in memory of the history of the Institute that the national library is the library of Italy of the 900.
Memories from the United States.
It was born to testify the Italian culture to all,
and that it is specifically the library of literature of the 20th century,
precisely for the specificity of its foundations.
That is why it was born to the permanent exhibition Space 900, which wants to illustrate to all, and especially to the youngest,
the journey of Italian literature from the beginning of the century to our days.
This is how the room of Elsa, the living room of Pasolini, the gallery of the writers,
the space of Grazia De Ledda and now that dedicated to Carlo Levi,
which today we inaugurate thanks to the collaboration of the Carlo Levi Foundation,
which thanks to the person of its president, Professor Daniela Fonti.
The portraits of writers and friends, autographs and first editions,
tell in the pictorial and literary path of Levi from the Lucania to the Roman years.
The path will continue in the year.
New bouquets that are already ready and new materials are in the course of selection for the exhibition.
At the same time, there has been a wide scientific activity of valuing new acquisitions.
In short, we will also tell you the wonders that have been bought,
exceptional pieces and editions for the history of Italian literature.
Information catalog projects, digitalization projects, we are building the digital library of the 900
and the restoration of the 9th century heritage, particularly fragile for nature.
At the same time, on the occasion of the 40 years of the Institute,
we have created a space on the side of the library,
which tells its story and presents with films, 3D reconstructions and so on,
as well as art works.
The idea of the financing project, a tool generally applied in public works,
the first in the cultural services and made truly unique in libraries,
is born from the observation that the single activities,
bars, reproductions, bookshops, monsters, didactics, events,
if individually and individually managed,
would be failed or difficult to sustain.
Moreover, the procedure has provided an economic investment from the promoter subject,
which aims to improve services thus obtaining the sustainability of the operation.
The idea was therefore to put everything together to potential and enrich it with new opportunities,
the management of the Museum of Literature of the 900, didactics,
the always-present monsters, and then to put the regime in particular,
the restaurant bar service.
Everything is inserted into a broader project,
the idea of opening the library in the spaces of the atrium,
also outside of the open spaces,
in line with the other European institutions.
And that is why we have selected the security systems
thanks to the contribution of the Rubi Foundation,
allowing us to dispose of isolated locations from the rest of the library
and guarantee, of course, the whole of the preserved heritage.
In short, the executive project for the restyling of this conference room will also be delivered,
which will also be enriched by a new work of contemporary art,
by a young artist, a result of a competition that we have banned
thanks to the financing of the contemporary plan,
of the general direction of contemporary art and architecture.
And we will be able to go to the competition to be able to dispose,
in the coming months, of a large polyvalent room
with the most modern technologies,
which will also be dedicated to the public show,
thus allowing concerts, demonstrations,
because not events of any kind,
in respect of the place and the whole.
We strongly believe in the public-private synergy,
always with the better control of the scientific supervision
of the state of the proposed initiatives.
We are happy with the creation of new jobs in the cultural sphere,
which have already been scrapped and scrapped by the activation of the financing project.
We hope that new potential services will strengthen the use of the library,
by approaching a public that is also different.
I therefore wish that, on the day of today,
many others will follow to present the initiatives
that will be inaugurated and proposed in turn.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I now have the floor to the head of the cabinet,
Professor D'Andrea, for a greeting.
Just a greeting, because we have to do a quick ceremony
and I am particularly proud of the decision
that I made this morning to dedicate a space also to Carlo Levi.
Carlo Levi also had a lot to do with my Basilica.
He is involved with many of my studies and interests,
so I am particularly proud of this decision.
I also want to quickly outline the whole comprehensive path
that the director of this library has taken
and has been able to keep in mind
the constant and progressive opening of the library
to a cultural value.
The library is back to being not only a place of study
and reading books, but also a place through which
we can promote culture.
I think the best recognition that we can do
to him as to the whole line, in this sense,
followed by the general direction of the libraries.
Thank you very much.
Director General of the Library and Cultural Institutes,
Rossana Rumma.
So, for me too, a sincere thank you to Andrea De Pasquale,
to the entire staff of the National Library,
who, in fact, from the very beginning
of the renewal of regeneration,
I would like to use this term
of the National Library Central,
on the line also of what, with many colleagues
of the National Library of State, Italian,
we have been told many times,
many times of meeting.
We have all this going in the direction,
as I said, of, in some way,
to think also, to enlarge the boundaries
of what is the role of the libraries,
which is certainly the study,
the research, the knowledge,
but also to open up to what is a basin of use,
as it has been said, wider,
that today has more than four,
perhaps it needs new stimuli, new impulses.
And I also want to say thanks to those today
with this meeting between the public and the private,
which is one of the keys, also of reading,
of what is a bit of the future,
of what should be in the world
of Italian cultural heritage,
what collaboration between two, let's say,
interests, on the one hand,
those who have, let's say,
the tutela, the conservation,
the valuation of their heritage,
but also those who help, in some way,
to make this tutela,
the valuation and conservation
also an opportunity to grow,
to grow economically, to grow culturally,
to grow socially.
We will open up these new spaces here,
beautiful spaces,
spaces that, in some way,
also open up to the fruition of a public,
as the director said, different,
a public that today can
frequent the library, not only to study,
but also to entertain,
to have an opportunity to see a sample,
to see a movie,
to participate in an encounter.
Below the line is also what was said,
that is, the creation of the didactic laboratory.
In almost all the great European libraries,
but not only Europe and the world,
the space for the didactic,
for the children, for the families,
is an absolutely necessary space,
because creation is a path
that is opened from the young,
and that goes forward, let's say,
not only what happens in museums,
where the laboratories are often
always present, but in libraries,
even though in our country
the case is very rare,
it is an absolute necessity.
So this is,
I believe, the meaning
of this path,
a path that we will open today
in Rome, but I,
Miagro, Auspico,
also go forward in other Italian realities.
I must say, in this I would like to say
that a sincere thank you
is not formal to Minister Franceschini,
because, in fact,
when the libraries arrived,
they were really at the edge.
Here there are many colleagues,
I also see that today
maybe they are the intention
of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs,
who have lived much more difficult periods,
let's say, from this point of view.
The tangible sign,
let's say, of interest,
I believe, towards libraries,
is to give oxygen,
so financial resources
to this sector,
which, on the other hand,
had seen them devour
in a rather worrying way
in the previous years.
So this opportunity
that has been given to us
is an opportunity
that is not taken away,
so it is also our responsibility
in the first place
to use these resources well,
and as all investments
it must also bring a return
for everyone, for those who work for us
and for the citizens,
because we remember that we are a public service
to all the effects.
So we must then restore
what has been given to us.
I believe this is an important
key in general for those
who then deal with the public
in Italy,
that we have opportunities
and these opportunities have been restored.
Thank you very much, Andrea De Pasquale,
who is doing this hard
journey, because I know
that we often hear
and we know that it is not easy,
but we are able to do it.
So this means that we can do it
and so I really think
that today we can say
that it is a first step
towards a change,
an absolutely necessary regeneration.
Thank you.
Now the word
Giovanna Barney,
President of COP Cultura.
Good morning to all.
Good morning,
Mr. Minister
and Directors.
I cannot associate myself
with the Director
and the Director
because
to have given us the opportunity
to start this experiment
which I have to say
in short, I am here
and I have to tell you
the representatives
of more subjects
the Stelf Society,
the Association of Search Palaces
who are present here,
the architect of Fierro and Luca Fiorelli,
so I also speak in their name,
but I cannot but say
that this experiment
that is taking place today
represents a bit the coronation
of a commitment, of an activity
for many years
and of the innovative development
which also this
this beginning, this way
of experimentation
also contributes
to our own activity
and therefore I associate this
thanks to this great opportunity.
Why innovative?
We said it, in short,
the slides will then go
to the images
of what we are trying to do.
Innovative has been said
because it is
a financing project,
a procedure
that is not
still used
in the places of state culture.
However, it has never been
brought to terms
a financing project.
The Director said it, it took two years
but a procedure
that was implemented
that was born from a spontaneous
project in the field of a program
from the public institution
was born from a proposal
from the
private subjects
that must be highly qualified
in each of the sectors
on which the financing project is going to be installed.
Three specialized companies
we said it in different sectors
but contiguous that they believed
it was a common project.
A common project,
this is the other very innovative aspect,
a common project
that on a library
there is a space
that until today
has not been almost all faulty
in short, let's pretend
in short, those that have been
old additional services
in libraries.
Here it is not about additional services
but it is about a re-qualification
of spaces
not included in the function
precisely in the
core mission of the library
and therefore of spaces
that can become
a square.
The one that Antonio Año calls the square
of knowledge. There is a context
where you can learn
not only through the reading of the book
but with the reading of the book in the center
but also with the possibility
to enjoy many other cultural activities
and naturally to entertain ourselves
even within
a decent restoration.
So innovative for this
innovative because it is
a decennal business plan
that is aimed at sustainability.
What the director
calls sustainability,
that is, a sustainability
first of all,
but for a certain kind of enterprise
in short, that as ours
looks more at the results
rather than
at the purely economic margins
with an investment
that must return
in terms, above all,
of quality, quality of services,
quality of occupation
that is created
and therefore an investment not only
financial but also in terms of
skills, energy
and professionalism.
And finally a social sustainability
because what are we looking at?
In a district
the most important library of Italy
in a district
like this of Castro-Petroria
which is a multicultural district
is becoming more and more
a multicultural district
becomes indeed the place
the library of socialization
inclusion and participation
and all the activities look at this
that is, having an open cut
I do not know if you have seen
the initial title
of Rome, open to everyone
and let's see how we want
to make this thing.
It is a project of 10 years
excuse us, we did not
manage to do everything
from the contract signing to today
and therefore I will give you a picture
of the things that we have already
managed to do
and those that will be done in short.
First of all, the Exi Library
a small exhibition space
that compends
very much the space
instead dedicated to the literature
of the 900 in Rome
a multicultural space
opens with
the exhibition of Maurizio Quarello
Borgia Bestia Carte
a space where
they are founded and also here
Antonella Agni
they are founded literature
they are founded art, they are founded
multimedia, that is, a space
where art is founded.
The meeting hall
for great convenience
the Libro Lab
Libro is the
the logo
that characterizes the naming
that characterizes all the various activities
Libro Lab
the meeting small hall
Libro di Darum
which has been cited
specifically
they join manuality
literature
and art
and finally the Libro Bistro
which is the space that is now
the Libro Scan
with the new technologies
for the scanning of the books
Libro Store
the small library
to find various things
related to the exhibition
related to everything
that the students also need
when they come here to study
that is, it was crazy
to find or to buy a pen
or to buy something
you had to do kilometers around
these spaces already revisited
for new destinations
and the next opening
because naturally, as I said
excuse me, in very few months
we did not manage to do everything
but on the other hand
one of the main in the next opening
is the Libro Multimedia
which will run
with immersive reality
the literature
of the 900 in Rome
the idea is to make a space
where
you can navigate
you can look at Rome
under a new point of view
which is the creativity
literary who gave origin in the years
especially in the 900
and finally
of course
it's time to come
I don't know if everyone will have seen
a cave today
it doesn't even seem like a cave
but it can certainly
become a space
for events
shows
and therefore
it can really become a place
to live the library
the whole year
and all the hours of the year
to be all the cultural spaces
all the cultural spaces
these are the things already done
some activities have already been launched
and they are those
especially dedicated to children
the age age
in the studies we have done
differently from the libraries
that have been for us a lighthouse
we went to find them even in Australia
or in Canada
I am talking about the Criesenberg Library
and Edmont Public Library
which are the two libraries
in which we have been inspired
in this library
there was a complete lack of age age
especially those of the younger ones
the Lab Library
and the Sestive Camp
will characterize
the activity of the library
the
the family workers
also here to bring
the younger ones
together with the parents
and this is an image
of a beautiful thing that has already been done
that is, on the occasion
of the life of Pasolini
at the Argentine Theater
we managed to make a partnership
with the theater
and to come for a theatrical blitz
the actors
one day here in the room
where you are now
in short
this always for the teachers
in short, an ambitious project
that wants to connect
the library
the library to the territory
and to the city
all the city of Rome
as it deserves
and
a program
which is transversal
which sees all the arts
together
which sees literature
the live show
cinema
a very ambitious program
in these beautiful spaces
that are in the center of Rome
10 minutes from the central station
a project
here I finish in the teaching
of cooperation
cooperate between public and private
cooperate between
cooperatives
here there are several cooperatives
cooperate with several entrepreneurial subjects
those I have already mentioned
that are part of the team
I wrote letters of intent
to collaborate with us
in short
as Europe says for the culture of tomorrow
needs to cooperate
because the challenge is very big
thank you
now in the word to the honorable minister
for the benefits and cultural activity
tourism
honorable Dario Franceschini
to you
also thanks
but I really have to say
I do not
I do not want any thanks
I simply
tried
to
recover
a terrible delay
for which in the years
for the end of
a few years
but in the years in the decade
minister
minister resources
in particular
those cuts have been penalized
sectors that had less
voice
that had less
external sense
that is, associations
private companies
private entities
I think sector of the show
cinema that even having cuts
they still had who was the voice
the archives
the libraries
have been
dramatically penalized
those years, both in terms of resources
in terms of staff
in terms of resources
not for investments but also for
simple management
and so I did what was necessary
to do
on the one hand
as the journalist Rumo knows well
because we also shared these things
providing the resources
for the ordinary management of the archives
on the other hand
inserting in some
large national projects that were
possible for new resources
decided
by the CIP from the parliament
some significant investments
in the sector
of the libraries
in particular when there is the director
the national library
in terms of different financing
in addition to the increase
of expenses
for the operation
the triple of what was there
but it had 17 million
for these interventions
of modernization
of investment, of very nice change
that we have heard
and the library of Florence
had about 15 million
for interventions on the deposits
and on the Emeroteca which was already
in a
in a deposit
this allows to do
what a country must do
that is to invest
on
the libraries
for which I foresee a great future
contrary to what
I read or imagine
certainly if the libraries remain
simply the place
as they have been for so long
prestigious place
because of the conservation
of the library of the country
and this of course must be
but they do not become attractive places
parts of services
parts of welcome
parts of multimedia
I hardly take the time
if instead there is what you are doing here
and therefore I thank you
also for this innovation
of the project financing
but specifically for the beautiful things
that we have heard
if they can instead
become attractive places
the same thing
regarding various museums
but the museums can no longer be
just places where beautiful collections are exhibited
as they were exposed in the eighteenth century
also museums must become
places where a citizen
a traveler, a tourist
wants to live an experience
therefore he wants
in the places of culture
the possibility of
study on the heritage
but he also wants the possibility
to spend a day, he wants the cafeterias
he wants the services, he wants the places for the children
the library of data, the multimedia
the gardens, the outdoor spaces, the shows
all this will make
if it will be done
in Italy what
has been done
what is being done here
in the central library
what is done in many countries
the libraries instead are intended
to become a great aggregating factor
and through the fact
to add
in this case not only
the surrounding territory
here there is a wider objective
the central library
but they will also become a place
where reading is approached
in a modern and captivating way
so thanks to everything you have done
you will have to continue to have resources
I always think that around
there are many demagnial furniture
that have different destinations
and maybe gradually
you won't be able to expand
the spaces, expand the containers
and make this project always more accessible
thanks
thank you all for letting me
finally thank the vice-director
Silvana Decapoa
Arturo Ferrari
the legal office
the procedure of the finance project
Dr. Ressa Porru
the technical office
the architectural office
Dr. Ressa Cardinale
who has followed
the establishment of Carlo Levi
and the entire library
that constantly follows
and participates
in our initiatives
thank you very much
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
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