The Library has a collection of more than 50,000 volumes, mostly on open shelves, 3,000 ebooks and other multimedia resources, 4,500 DVD-films, 1,800 musical CDs, a newspaper library with 60 periodicals.
The materials, constantly updated, are divided into the following sections:
ADULT SECTION
It includes volumes relating to all fields of knowledge and to all disciplines, both humanistic and scientific. The volumes are ordered by subject based on the Dewey Decimal Classification, which divides
knowledge into 10 classes:
- 000 - General Works, Computer Science, Librarianship
- 100 - Philosophy, Psychology
- 200 - Religion
- 300 - Social sciences (sociology, politics, economics, law/pedagogy...)
- 400 - Philology and linguistics
- 500 - Pure sciences (physics, chemistry, mathematics...)
- 600 - Applied sciences (medicine, engineering, agriculture...)
- 700 - Art, urban planning, architecture, photography, music, sport
- 800 - Literature
- 900 - History, Geography
In the “Literature” sector, novels, poems and stories by writers from every era and country are available. In this sector, the volumes are divided by major linguistic areas and, within these areas, are placed in alphabetical order based on the author's
last name.
Consultation Room
The following encyclopedias, dictionaries, vocabularies and major works related to the main disciplines are available to users for consultation on site.
For their purpose of providing prompt information, they must be constantly present in the Library and are therefore excluded from lending.
CHILDREN/TEENAGERS SECTION find out more
PARENTS SECTION
It includes a wide choice of books on topics ranging from the care and growth of the child to the deepening of the parental role. There are informative and practical publications that contain useful tips for family management and understanding problems related to everyday life and texts by experts in pedagogy and psychology on specific aspects of the world of childhood from prenatal to adolescence
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LOCAL SECTION
It collects publications that document the social, economic, scientific, artistic and literary life of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region and in particular of the city of Lignano Sabbiadoro and the Lower Friuli region.
Then there are local periodicals (including the complete series of Forogiulian Historical Memories) and degree theses on local topics.
Given the conservation requirements, some of the materials in the Section are excluded from lending.
CINEMA AND MUSIC SECTION
It offers a DVD collection of the main films in the history of cinema, of the greatest directors, of various countries, of the most significant genres and actors, with particular attention to contemporary and auteur cinema.
It also has cartoons and movies for children.
DVDs excluded from lending in compliance with copyright law can be viewed in the library.
There are also 1,800 musical CDs that cover the history of music and musical genres.
NEWSPAPER LIBRARY
The Library subscribes to about 60 periodicals, which can be freely consulted.
The back issues for the current year (with the exception of newspapers) are available for loan.
Newspapers
- The Corriere della Sera
- Il Sole 24 Ore
- Il Messaggero Veneto
- Il Gazzettino
Weekly
- Modern Woman
- Espresso
- Christian Family
- Internacional
- Io Donna
- Panorama
- Sette
Monthly and other periodicals
- 50 & more
- Amadeus
- Andersen
- Archeo
- Art and Dossier
- Art
- Bell'Italia
- Libraries today
- Casabella
- Ce fastu
- Ciak
- Cose di Casa
- Dada
- Domino
- Dove
- Focus
- Comic
- Gambero Rosso
- Gardenia
- Grazia
- The photographer
- In the saddle
- Me and my baby
- Italian Cuisine
- The Sciences
- Liber
- Limes
- The index of books of the month
- Linus
- Middle Ages
- Meridiani
- Mind (mind and brain)
- National Geographic
- PC Magazine
- Four wheels
- Qui Touring
- Noise
- Cinema sign
- I'm the nape
- Historical
SPECIAL FUNDS
The Library holds the following special collections:
Historical postcards of Lignano
Historical photographic images
Photographs by writer Ernest Hemingway.