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Scientific Report 2007-2009<br />
Laboratories and Facilities of the Department of Physics<br />
F1. Departmental Library<br />
The Departmental Library has recently undergone a process<br />
of transformation both from the structural and logistic point of<br />
view, and a throughout modernization of the services.<br />
The new location of the Departmental Library was inaugurated<br />
in 2005, and consists of a reading room with 46 places, 12 Personal<br />
Computers (one of which is specially equipped for the visually<br />
impaired) with direct access to the internet. The Library offers<br />
a series of services, from the traditional ones, like consulting and<br />
loan, to advanced ones, like reservation of work sessions on the<br />
PCs of the library or of the access to the wireless network with<br />
one’s own laptop. These services are offered both to institutional<br />
users and to students that visit our University.<br />
The catalogue of ancient and modern volumes (approximately<br />
25000 books) is now fully automated. The catalogue of subscribed<br />
and historical journals (approximately 500 titles) is also<br />
automated. The bibliographic records are inserted into two important<br />
national databases (ACNP and SBN), so as to allow for<br />
the full on-line visibility of the heritage of our Library. The library<br />
provides document delivery (approximately 300 articles per<br />
year) within the interexchange circuit NILDE, and interlibrary<br />
loan with other libraries within the national circuit SBN and<br />
within international loan circuits. At the local level, the Library<br />
provides the following services: temporary loan for all students<br />
Figure 1: Main hall of the Departmental Library, with<br />
the front desk and the shelves displaying the latest issues<br />
of the subscribed journals. The reading room is located<br />
beyond the glass divider.<br />
and institutional staff member of La <strong>Sapienza</strong> (approximately 5000 loans per year); reservation of internet accesses (12 PCs<br />
in the library) for research and consultation of on-line bibliographic resources; wireless connection of one’s own laptop. All<br />
these services are accessible to all those that enroll as users at the Library (approximately 7000 enrolled users), providing<br />
their personal data. These data are stored in a database common to all the libraries of La <strong>Sapienza</strong> and of the territory of<br />
the Region Latium (Regione Lazio).<br />
The Departmental Library takes active part to the national project of automation SBN, since 1990. This allows to<br />
share data and provide services to the users, without direct charges for the structure, but thanks to the centralized financial<br />
support of La <strong>Sapienza</strong>, via the SBN project. The automation process includes an experimental activity, aimed at improving<br />
the services offered to the users. It is already possible to access to the Library after the closing time, by means of a magnetic<br />
card which is currently released only to institutional users of the Department. Access to the Library is allowed to authorized<br />
enrolled users. The premises of the Departmental Library are controlled by a webcam circuit. Within the year, a new<br />
service will be made available, i.e., the automatic loan by means of the RFID technology. Thanks to the computer science<br />
competences of the Department of Physics, a software is being developed that will allow to <strong>download</strong> data from the database<br />
SEBINA/SBN and process them with the help of dedicated hardware, fully exploiting the RFID technology. Once tested,<br />
this software might be released and made accessible to other Departmental Libraries at La <strong>Sapienza</strong>. All volumes will<br />
be equipped with a RFID tag that will allow for full traceability and all users will be provided with an identifying card.<br />
Thanks to the association of these two elements, each user will be able to loan a book and register the operation in the loan<br />
database. The RFID technology will also allow to monitor the handling and recognition of the librarian material, making<br />
the procedure simpler, as compared to the long manual procedure of inventory control of the bibliographic material.<br />
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<strong>Sapienza</strong> Università di Roma 197 Dipartimento di Fisica
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