Biblioteca Civica di Padova

The Biblioteca Civica of Padua, Italy, is a public library founded in 1839 by Gerolamo Polcastro. Since 2009 it operates from headquarters in the Centro culturale Altinate/San Gaetano. Its collections include manuscripts produced by Alberto Fortis. Together with the University Library of Padua, the oldest one, it is among the main sites of bibliographic preservation in Padua, as well as the coordinating center of the Urban Library System; eight libraries, a newspaper library and a media library that share the same catalog are part of the System. The name "civic" underscores the primary goal of this institution since its founding: to be a service of the city, working for its citizens. The Library holds more than 500,000 volumes, 5,000 manuscripts, 323 incunabula, 2,000 periodicals, and an iconographic collection of 12,000 items, many of which document the events of Padua and its surroundings at the turn of World War I.

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