Lorenzo Marchese

Review of Biblioteca nazionale centrale ...

extremely short hours (mid-week is open only in th...

extremely short hours (mid-week is open only in the morning, until 13:30), you can book a book a day for consultation (only from your home, after which the online system blocks new requests), you cannot take books off the shelves
in essence it is no longer a library: it is a building with books inside, which in rare cases, without expanding too much, is allowed to browse. Impossible to study and work in such a place: a shame, but nothing surprising for those who have been forced, for many years, to attend it for study or work. It is only the logical conclusion, behind the motivation of health prevention from COVID, of a coherent path of expulsion of users, seen by the organization and by most of the staff as a nuisance
My secret hope is that the agony will last a short time and finally this Library will be closed, perhaps to put some school class in it that needs space: at present, it would certainly be more useful this way.