“Maria Luigia” Reading Room
Room intended for users who wish to consult monographic and periodical works with edition dates from the year 1600, excluding works of particular value that belong to the adjacent manuscript and rare consultation room. The room accommodates approximately 90 readers and hosts an exhibition of periodicals that is periodically updated: some reference works, such as encyclopedias and linguistic dictionaries, are available to users.
Consultation room
Room used for consulting the main reference repertoires of the various disciplines, with particular attention to Italian and foreign bibliographical and biographical tools ordered according to the Dewey decimal classification system, with free access to the shelves. The room, equipped with tables for the use of laptops, accommodates approximately 20 readers and is partly reserved for the consultation and study of manuscript and rare collections, particularly valuable printed works as well as graphic material. Requests must be presented to the room assistant and collected from the same one at a time – except in exceptional cases. Up to a maximum of ten requests can be satisfied for each reader during the same day.
It is possible to keep in storage – for a period not exceeding 15 days – no more than two manuscripts or two rare works. Exceptional cases are reserved and will be evaluated from time to time always and in any case compatible with the service needs.
The use of ballpoint pens, fountain pens, markers, etc. is prohibited; the use of pencils is required.
Anyone who causes damage of any kind to the works read or does not handle with due caution, following the instructions of the library assistants, the volumes entrusted to him, may be excluded from access to the Library. In the library, in addition to various catalogues, various information resources, local and remote, online and on CD-ROM, are available to users, directly or through the mediation of the librarian. The library staff provides information on the available bibliographic apparatus, on the use of the catalogues, and directs and assists users in research procedures.
Library of the Archaeological Museum and Library of the National Gallery of Parma
It is possible to consult the bibliographic material at the Palatina Library, preferably by reservation, to ensure better organization of the activities, by sending an email to the address: b-pala@cultura.gov.it