Services

Up to two documents may be borrowed for a maximum of four units (in the case of multi-volume works); thesis students may take advantage of the possibility, limited to a six-month period, to request up to three documents.
Volumes printed within the last 70 years in good condition, free of out-of-text plates and signatures eligible for loan may be provided.
All other volumes are excluded from loan; for these volumes under fruition there is no loan option.

The loan has a maximum duration of thirty days (including holidays) and may be renewed once for an additional month or fraction thereof.
The expiration date, shown on the receipt that is delivered together with the requested works, indicates THE MAXIMUM LIMIT WITHIN WHICH TO RETURN THE VOLUME, under penalty of the prescribed suspension.

In the absence of reservations, it is possible to renew the loan.
The request can be made by the cardholder, no later than one week before the expiration date, either by going in person to the Reception desk with the book and its receipt, or remotely, by logging in with a user code and password to their reserved area from the address:
https://mil.sbn.it/servizi, After clicking on the Current Requests item, locate the book to be extended, click on Extend and confirm. Next, verify that the request has been accepted. If not, the reader must return the volume.
When the user picks up the volume, he or she is required to check its integrity and condition, because he or she must return it in the same state in which it was entrusted to him or she will be suspended from the service.
The holder may entrust a third party only with the final return of the borrowed volume, together with the corresponding receipt.

Latecomers will be suspended from the loan service for a period equal to the delay.

Failure to return borrowed works will result in the penalties provided for in Art, 58 of Presidential Decree 417/95.

To access the loan you must be enrolled in Home Loan.
The loan request can be submitted directly from the Online Catalog.
After locating the desired work in the online catalog:

• • click on the Request item (which appears in the Fruition field)
• • Complete the User Identification form as follows:
• • User/Tax Code: type the abbreviation NB followed by the number of the loan membership card or the tax code
• • Enter Password
• • click on the login button

Then proceed by following the next screens until the request is entered. When finished, the message “Request entry successfully made” will appear. In case the book to be requested has been borrowed by another user, it will appear “In Reading” on the online catalog page. In this case, you can reserve it. Upon its return, you will receive an e-mail at the address given at the time of registration.
Please specify, in the user note field, the approximate time you intend to pick up the work.

Readers to pick up the requested volumes should go to the Atrium and show their Library card.
The volumes remain available to the requestor for seven days.
Works requested but not picked up in a timely manner will be placed back in storage.

Users are encouraged to reserve volumes the day before pickup.

Readers who sign up for email consultation, and borrowing only once they have gone to the library, may request a change of service of requested books from home.

 
LIMITS FOR REQUESTING MONOGRAPHS
Loan: 2 volumes
On-site consultation: 5 volumes
PERIODICAL REQUEST LIMITS (in-house consultation only)
Weekly: one vintage
Monthly: two annuals
Newspapers: 6 continuous months (to be specified in note)

The Consultation Room is provided for users who need to read or study books or materials that cannot leave the Library.
The Room can accommodate 44 readers per day, and to access it you must reserve your place at this link.
Some reference works, encyclopedias and dictionaries, about 15,000 direct access volumes are available on the shelves of the Hall.
Books and materials can be left in storage for a period of 15 days.
The request for photocopying must be authorized by the Hall Manager, and the user making the request is required to fill out the appropriate form.

1. Search for the Work in the Online Catalog and then click on Title.
2. in the field at the bottom services, click on the item Request
3. Complete the User Identification form:
– User Code: type NB followed by the reader code of the membership card (e.g. NB00000).
– Password: type (your own password which for the 1st time will consist of the Tax Code, written in capitals, then CREATE
– the new password (at least 8 characters) and type it 2 times.
– Then click on LOGIN

4. Open the blue service dropdown and choose the desired service:
• Stock consultation (for in-house reading)
• Stock lending materials (for home lending)

5. Click NEXT
adding in the user note any communications

6. click NEXT, and confirm your Password
7. click on INSERT REQUEST
The transaction is completed when the notice (in green at the top) successful request entry comes out.
To make another request, click on Home (little house icon in the upper right corner)
NB: The user will be called by Surname at the counter to pick up modern works every 30 minutes.
Antique works will be picked up in the Consultation Room.
If he/she will have launched the request from home, he/she will find them ready at the distribution counter, having communicated in the “user note” the time he/she plans to come to the library.
These requests will be kept available to the user for 24 hours.

1. Locate the work in the card or booklet catalog and make note of placement (shelfmark) and title
2. go to the computer and, Online Catalog, click on the EXTRACAT button
3. Complete the User Identification form as follows:
• User Code: type the abbreviation NB followed by the number of the library membership or loan card
• type in the password
• press the OK button
4. select Biblioteca Braidense and press the Select button
5. enter the signature of the desired work and press the Next button
6. transcribe the requested data (only the title is required) and press the Next button
7. click on the desired service:
• reading public room / reference room
• lending stock materials
8. click on enter request, adding any communications in the user note
9. the transaction is completed when the notice “your request has been entered” comes out
10. click on exit
The user will find the requested works in the Reading Rooms.
Remote requests will be kept available to the user for one day.

Materials related to the following projects have been digitized and can be viewed from this site:
Digital newspaper library
Dramatic collection
Digitized monographs
Online texts (Progetto Scaffale aperto)
Sommariva Photographic Fund
Bindings
Other materials in particular from the Foscoliana Room and the works of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian writers of fiction, poetry, history, and drama, published in Lombardy, marked Z+, Delta, Omega, Fi, X++, Y+, 13, 18, 21, 22, ZFF, ROM, A+, works of Milanese dialect literature and a series of nineteenth-century Almanacs have been digitized and can be viewed directly from the Library’s computers.

Some materials are stored in off-site off-site storage facilities.

 
Materials stored in the Cavallerizza warehouses are picked up twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday).
Materials stored in the Morimondo depots are picked up once a week (Wednesday).

 
Materials will be made available to users at the Consultation Room on the day they are picked up, after 2 p.m.; please call 02 72263401 for confirmation.

Reproductions of the items in the Library’s collections are permitted in accordance with the current copyright regulations. The Library reserves the right to prohibit reproductions that might compromise the state of preservation of an item. The guidelines in this section are applicable only to reproductions requested for non profit purposes, e.g. for study, research, free expression of thought, promotion of cultural heritage. (art. 108, section 3 of the Cultural Heritage Law).
 

In the reading rooms users may be allowed to take photographs of books and other items, provided that the following conditions are met:
• prior authorization from library staff;
• respect of copyright restrictions;
• the reproduction equipment must not come into direct contact with the item/s to be reproduced;
• no exposure to light sources;
• no tripods or light stands.
 

Reproductions can also be requested to the Library’s Duplication Services. Requests must be submitted in writing, choosing one of the following options:
email to: [email protected]
mail to: Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense – via Brera, 28 – 20121 Milano Italy
directly to library staff (ask for request forms in the reading rooms)

Requests must clearly indicate: author, title and page(s) to be reproduced. For serial publications it is necessary to provide: title of the publication and of the article/essay of interest, year of publication, issue/volume number. Use the reproduction authorization request form (non profit)

A reimbursement of expenses is due as specified below:
• € 1,00 for each scan in pdf format (max 200 dpi);
• € 1,50 for each scan in jpg format (max 300 dpi) ;
• € 16,00 for each scan in tiff format (max 400 dpi);
 

For further details please refer to the Regulations and price list available here (in Italian)
 

All payments must be made only through the website www.pagonline.cultura.gov.it. When making a payment please select “Pinacoteca di Brera” as “Istituto” and “Servizi Braidense” as “servizio”. In the field named “causale” enter:
1) number of scans requested.
2) item call number.
3) Your name (or the name of your company/institution)
Proof of payment must be sent to the library using the above addresses.
 

Once payment is received requests will be processed in the subsequent week, please allow extra time for items stored outside the via Brera site.
The Italian copyright law (law 248/2000) allows reproduction of 15% of a volume or issue of a newspaper/magazine. This limit may be exceeded only in case of works that are out of print. In the case of requests for duplication of substantial parts of a work, the Library can request integral duplication in order to increase its digital collections and for better preservation of the original.

In case duplications are requested for profit purposes applicants are required to pay a fee determined on the basis of the price list available HERE.
 

Requests must be submitted in writing, choosing one of the following options:
email to: [email protected]
mail to: Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense – via Brera, 28 – 20121 Milano Italy
directly to library staff (ask for request forms in the reading rooms)

Requests must clearly indicate: author, title and page(s) to be reproduced. For serial publications it is necessary to provide: title of the publication and of the article/essay of interest, year of publication, issue/volume number. Use the reproduction authorization request form (profit making).
 

Once a request is received, the Library will calculate the fee due and inform the applicant.
 

All payments must be made only through the website www.pagonline.cultura.gov.it. When making a payment please select “Pinacoteca di Brera” as “Istituto” and “Servizi Braidense” as “servizio”. In the field named “causale” enter:
1) number of scans requested.
2) item call number.
3) Your name (or the name of your company/institution)
Requests will be processed once payment is received (please send proof of payment to one of the addresses above)