IMSS Library - 2005 Report

Area:	Library
Start:	1 January 2005
End:	31 December 2005
Description:	In 2005 the IMSS library acquired about 2,000 documents (mostly books, but also excerpts and minor materials, photocopies, microfilms and microfiches, CD-ROMs, videos, etc.), more than 600 of which were received as gifts or exchanges. Among the about 1,400 purchased documents, 310 were published in 2005, 412 in 2004, 180 in 2003, 73 in 2002, 35 in 2001, etc. As for the country of publication, 413 were published in Italy, 291 in the USA, 203 in the United Kingdom, 120 in Germany, 91 in France, 66 in the Netherlands, etc. The language of the texts is mostly English (604), 395 are in Italian, 118 in French, 110 in German, etc. All the documents acquired in 2005 have been catalogued (subject indexing, index transcription and cataloguing of single essays in miscellaneous volumes included) and are now available to scholars, consultable via the library's online catalogue with traditional search methods. The articles - in the Italian periodicals - dealing with the history of science have been catalogued, as well as two special collections, recently acquired by the IMSS library: the Omodeo Collection (cataloguing completed) and the Thèses Médecine Estate (about 2/3 catalogued).
Link:	biblioteca.imss.fi.it/LV2_1bin/LibriVision

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