INFN-LNF Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
The Library and Scientific Documentation Service of the LNF, in August 2020, applied to the call Sostegno all’editoria libraria of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIBAC), aimed at providing support to small bookstores and to the entire publishing chain, providing a financial contribution to libraries for the purchase of books.
The LNF library has been granted with the maximum contribution of 10.000 euro. This amount has been used to buy 221 new books from the bookstores of the Castelli Romani area.
In particular, it has been renewed the university textbooks section and enriched the outreach and physics education catalogue widening the offer addressed to teachers and people passionate about science.
The books have been all catalogued by our Library personnel in very short time, to make them available for the public (list of new books). “It has been a big teamwork” says Lia Sabatini, responsible of the Library Office and promoter of the LNF project to the MIBAC. “in which we involved LNF research groups and the Administration”.
Since 2019, the LNF Library is partner of the Consorzio delle Biblioteche dei Castelli and provides its services to the subscribers of this consortium.