The Library of the State Archives of Pesaro-Urbino is an internal library of the institute, available to scholars who frequent the study room, who can consult the publications, to support their archival research.
Consultation is also permitted to non-users of the study room, if the texts sought are not available in other city libraries, after registering with the study room services of the State Archives. External loans are not permitted under any circumstances.
Distributed between the three locations of Pesaro, Fano and Urbino, it was established at the same time as the Archives itself in 1955. The photo reproduction service is guaranteed, in compliance with current legislation. For some years it has adhered to the Unified Catalogue of the libraries of the Province of Pesaro-Urbino and Ancona and the retrospective recovery of the catalogue is underway.
The bibliographic heritage of the Library of the State Archives of Pesaro, including the sections of Fano and Urbino, amounts to approximately 18,000 volumes. The materials are placed partly on open shelves in the study rooms and partly on closed shelves in special rooms.
The Library annually increases its book heritage through Service III - Studies and research of the General Directorate for Archives which sends its publications published in the series: Strumenti, Saggi, Fonti, Sussidi, Quaderni della “Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato”, Archivi Italiani and some volumes outside the series, as well as the official periodical of the Administration: “Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato” and “Il Mondo degli Archivi”, co-published with the A.N.A.I. (Italian National Archives Association), also published online.
In purchasing publications, preference is given to specific subjects such as archives, diplomacy, sigillography, library science, history, philosophy, literature, art, law, economics, historical and archival monographs as well as specialist periodicals. Particular attention is paid to the acquisition of texts relating to local historiography, economics, popular traditions, folklore, archaeology, minor arts and crafts.
The bibliographic heritage is also increased through a policy of exchanges with local, national and international associations, archives, libraries and donations. Finally, authors who have used archive documents for their publications are required, in compliance with current provisions, to deliver the so-called "obligatory copies" to the State Archives.
Services
Reference, consultation, reproductions, document delivery, internet browsing.
