[net-gold] LIBRARIES: Vatican's Magnificent Library Restored After 3 Years, $11.5 Million Restoration
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- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:48:31 -0400 (EDT)
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LIBRARIES:
Vatican's Magnificent Library Restored After 3 Years,
$11.5 Million Restoration
Vatican's Magnificent Library Restored After 3 Years,
$11.5 Million Restoration
Researchers Can Use the Library, But Only the Pope Can Borrow a Book
By ANN WISE
ROME Sept.13, 2010
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/International/
vatican-library-reopens-year-restoration/story?id=11624928
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The magnificent Vatican Library, one of the oldest and richest in the
world, was unveiled today after a three year and $11.5 million
restoration.
Faced with sagging floors and major restructuring work, the Vatican
decided in 2007 to shut down the library completely for the first time in
its 500 years of existence and do the job properly. The Apostolic, or
papal library was founded by Pope Sixtus IV in 1475, and did not even shut
down during two world wars.
Amid protests and skepticism from scholars the world over, who scrambled
to do last minute research before doors were shut, the Cardinal Librarian
Raffaele Farina promised that the the library would re-open in September
2010. In a crowded press conference in the spectacular reading room known
as the Salone Sistino (after Pope Sixtus V) Farina proudly announced today
that his promise was kept and the job was done.
SNIP
The Vatican library houses what is considered the world's largest
collection of manuscripts books written by hand 75,000 of them in Latin,
Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and more. In addition, there are almost 2
million printed books and serials, including over 8,000 incunabula - the
earliest printed books. It also has a collection of some 100,000 prints,
engravings, maps and drawings, and over 300,000 Greek, Roman and papal
coins and medals.
The Vatican library specializes in the humanities: theology, law,
philosophy, history, and science. "You aren't likely to find a book on
economics here, " said one librarian.
It is also a library with a mission, said library Prefect Monsignor Cesare
Pasini, in the spirit of service, humanism and universality. At its
closing, Pope Benedict the XVI described the library as "a welcoming home
of science, culture and humanity that opens its doors to scholars from
every part of the world, without distinction of provenance, religion and
culture."
Vatican to Open High-Tech Library for Ancient Volumes
Sabina Castelfranco | Rome
Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/
Vatican-to-Open-High-Tech-Library-for-Ancient-Volumes-102782169.html
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The Library does not check out books, although with special authorization
it has been possible to borrow books, manuscripts, coins and medals for
special exhibits. Only the Pope can check out a book.
Piazzoni says the greatness of the Vatican Library resides above all in
the quality of its books. There are 1.6-million volumes. Many other
libraries in the world have more, but the Vatican Library has 80,000
medieval and humanistic manuscripts, which can be compared only to the
national libraries in Paris and London.
A new sophisticated security and tracking system has been installed. A
scholar visiting the library will receive a magnetic badge that will track
his movements inside the library. In addition electronic tags have been
inserted in each of the books so that they can be easily located.
Piazzoni says in this kind of a library if a book is misplaced it is like
losing it, because finding it would be up to chance. But with this new
radio-frequencies system of identification it will be much easier to find
a book and return it to its rightful place.
The Vatican library was started by Pope Nicholas V in the early 1450s with
an initial 350 Latin manuscripts. By the time he died in 1455, the
collection had swelled to about 1,500 publications and was the largest in
Europe. Pope Nicholas wanted a library that did not belong only to the
pope but to scholars all over the world. Vatican officials say 150 to 200
scholars will be allowed into the library every day.
13 September 2010 Last updated at 10:31 ET
In pictures: Vatican Library reopens after restoration
BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11288225
Vatican Library goes hi-tech with 7.5m refit
The Vatican Library is to reopen to scholars after a three year, 7.5
million renovation, with 21st century technology enlisted to safeguard
books and manuscripts dating back nearly 2,000 years.
Nick Squires in Rome
Published: 5:48PM BST 13 Sep 2010
Each one of the library's 70,000 books, which are stored in a bombproof
bunker, has been fitted with a computer chip capable of emitting radio
signals in order to prevent loss and theft.
The undertaking was in part motivated by an attempted theft by an American
art history professor, who smuggled pages torn from a 14th century
manuscript that once belonged to Petrarch.
SNIP
The library, started by Pope Nicholas V in the 1450s, includes the world's
oldest known complete Bible, dating from around 325 and believed to have
been commissioned by Emperor Constantine, the first Roman emperor to
embrace Christianity.
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