The National Library of Rome inaugurates a new reading room open to all
Free access even to those who do not have a library card
ROME – The Central National Library of Rome is increasingly open to the city, and today officially inaugurates a new reading room open to all, even those who do not have an institution card bookshop. Red sofas, 31 workstations equipped with electrical sockets and wi-fi network and overlooking the hall of the Castro Pretorio headquarters, the new reading room set up on the mezzanine floor is equipped with every comfort and suitable for those who want to reading and studying, but also to those who want to meet and have a chat.
THE DIRECTOR OF THE LIBRARY: ” A FREE SPACE FOR READERS, WITHOUT REGISTRATION”
“In a low voice, of course, but I believe in the ability of readers to self-regulate”, the director of the Library, Stefano Campagnolo, tells the Dire agency , who today welcomed Neri Marcorè for the occasion and Edoardo De Angelis who performed in the show ‘Two friends in the Library, between chatter and songs’. Just as the new Reading Room promises (which follows the institute’s opening hours). “Who says what is done and not done in a Library? What is a Library? The new service offered with the public reading room is not usual for National Libraries like the one in Rome – said Campagnolo – but it responds to a deeply felt need: to have a free space where readers can come, without being registered, to study but also to meet people for study or work, without too many formalities. Libraries are transforming: not they are more the place where you come to ask for a book, but they are places that try to facilitate knowledge which is made up of many things”.
SONGS AND DANCES TO THE NOTES OF DE GREGORI AND DE ANDRE’
Under the marble bust of Vittorio Emanuele II, Marcorè and De Angelis for about an hour sang and played various masterpieces of Italian song for the national team audience, including Il bandito and the sample by Francesco De Gregori and Piero’s war by Fabrizio De André,as well as some songs written by De Angelis himself. And in the end, many selfies and souvenir photos that the public wanted together with Marcorè in an unusual place like a Library. “In fact that’s the case, but today a new space is being inaugurated that can be accessed freely and read. Even eating, they told me, although perhaps it’s better to do it outside – he joked with the Dire agency – And then there’s naturally the rest of the Library asked to be present at this inauguration and Edoardo De Angelis and I did so to the sound of music by taking a few journeys into the music of Italian singer-songwriters with the kindness of several people who circled us. they listened. It was a beautiful afternoon. The Libraries – he said finally – are always a beautiful place where it is nice to see so many young people studying and people of all ages. They are very reassuring places.”