Hours
BOOK LIBRARY SERVICESMonday to Friday 8.30 a.m. – 6.15 p.m.
Saturday 8.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
RECEPTION, ENROLLMENT AND LOAN SERVICES
Monday to Friday 8.30 a.m. – 6.15 p.m.
Saturday 8.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
READING ROOM (only with own books)
Monday to Friday 8.30 a.m. – 6.15 p.m.
CONSULTATION ROOM (for Library books)
Monday to Friday 8.30 a.m. – 6.15 p.m.
Saturday 8.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
MICROFILM AND RAI THECA
(Use of own headphones/earphones with mini jack connection is recommended)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 8.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday: 8.30 a.m. – 6.15 p.m.
MANUSCRIPTS ROOM
Monday, Wednesday: 8.30 a.m. – 6.15 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 8.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
EXHIBITION ENTRANCE
(only during periods when exhibitions are in progress)
Monday through Friday 9.30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday 9.30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
How to get there
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense is located in the heart of the Brera area, inside the palace of the same name, where the Pinacoteca and Accademia are also located.
From the main entrance at 28 Via Brera, cross the courtyard and continue down the corridor in front of the entrance; the grand staircase is at the far left.
Two other entrances are located on Fiori Oscuri Street:
at No. 2, by elevator access for the disabled (in the round turret visible on the left of the courtyard; please buzz the doorbell)
at No. 4, through the driveway courtyard; cross the courtyard and enter the hallway in front of the driveway; the access staircase is in the corridor on the right, just past the columns.
MM 3, Montenapoleone stop.
Continue along Via Monte di Pietà, on the right cross Via Brera, to be walked to the Brera Palace on the right at the end of the street.
Alternatively, walk along Via Borgonuovo and turn left onto Via Fiori Oscuri; it can be accessed from the courtyard of No. 4.
MM 2, Lanza stop, continue along Via Tivoli and Via Pontaccio, turn right onto Via Brera.
Autobus 61, Brasilia direction, Pontaccio-Solferino stop, take via Brera to the left.
To calculate the route, see also the ATM website.
Accesso and registration
SIGN UP FOR LIBRARY SERVICESACCESS
Italian and foreign users who are sixteen years of age or older and for whom a specific exclusion order has not been issued are eligible to use the library.
In order to gain access to the library, you must have a valid photo ID and you must leave your bags and backpacks in the lockers (activated with 1 euro, which will be returned when the locker is emptied) located halfway up the ramp of the first access staircase.
Instead, Library membership is required to use reference and lending services.
REGISTRATION
For in-house reference services, you must pre-register by filling out the online form, send an email to [email protected] with a valid ID attached and wait for confirmation of registration from the reception office.
Alternatively, after completing the online form, you may complete the registration by coming directly to the Library.
For lending services you must follow the directions for registering for reference services at the Library and then go to the Library, with your ID and a passport photo, to complete the registration with the issuance of a card.
Residents of Lombardy, over 18 years of age, and people temporarily domiciled in Milan and province for study or work purposes are eligible for the lending service.
Hours for registration
Monday-Friday, 8.30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, 8.30 a.m.-1.30 p.m.
Rules - Service Charter
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Contacts
James M. Bradburne
General Director Pinacoteca di Brera and Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Marzia Dina Pontone
Scientific technical director Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
t. +39 02 72263448
email: [email protected]
BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE BRAIDENSE
Via Brera, 28, 20121 Milan (Italy)
Centralino t. +39 02 72263401
email: [email protected]
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t. +39 02 72263428
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[email protected]
See also the website www.urfm.braidense.it
Headquarters in via Conservatorio, 12 – 20122 Milan (Italy)
t. +39 02 36559499 – fax +39 02 76003097
Legal deposit
Documents intended for public use and usable by reading, listening and viewing are subject to mandatory deposit in order to preserve the memory of Italian culture and social life.
The Braidense National Library is designated by current regulations as the institution designated for the preservation of the second copy of the Lombardy Regional Archive of Editorial Production relating to editions of texts, periodicals and printed music published by subjects having their registered office in the province of Milan and of the only copy of the Lombardy Regional Archive of Editorial Production relating to productions of sound, musical audiovisual, computer and video art material published by subjects having their registered office in Lombardy.
Obligated parties are the publisher or otherwise the person responsible for the publication, whether natural or legal person; the printer, where the publisher is absent; the producer or distributor of non-book documents or similar publishing products; and the producer of film works.
The Depository Institutes are responsible for supervising and claiming any documents not received and reporting defaults in the manner specified in Article 44 of the Regulations. Failing parties may incur penalties.
Copies to be deposited:
• 1 copy to Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence (Legal Deposit Office, via Tripoli 36 – 50122 Florence);
• 1 copy to Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome (Legal Deposit Office, viale Castro Pretorio 105 – 00185 Rome);
• 1 copy to Archivio della Produzione Editoriale lombarda, (via Fiori Oscuri 2 – 20121 Milan);
• 1 copy (periodicals and monographs with a circulation of more than 200 copies) to the library in the province to which the obligated person belongs. For Milan and province: BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE BRAIDENSE (via Fiori Oscuri 2 – 20121 Milan).
Copie da depositare:
– 1 copy to the National Central Library of Florence (Ufficio Deposito Legale, via Tripoli 36 – 50122 Florence);
– 1 copy to the Vittorio Emanuele II National Library of Rome (Legal Deposit Office, viale Castro Pretorio 105 – 00185 Rome);
– 1 copy to the Library of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, (via Conservatorio 12, 20122 Milan);
– 1 copy to the library of the province to which the obligated person belongs. For Milan: BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE BRAIDENSE – special section UFFICIO RICERCHE FONDI MUSICALI (URFM, c/o Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, via Conservatorio 12, 20122 Milano).
Copies to be deposited:
• 1 copy to the Istituto Centrale dei Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi (Legal Deposit Office, Palazzo Mattei di Giove, via Michelangelo Caetani 32, 00186 Rome);
• 1 copy to the BIBILIOTECA NAZIONALE BRAIDENSE, special section MEDIATECA SANTA TERESA (via Fiori Oscuri 2 – 20121 Milan).
• Video documents, films, subjects, treatments and screenplays should be sent to: Cineteca Italiana, Manifattura Tabacchi, viale Fulvio Testi 121, 20162 Milan;
• Photographic edited documents should be sent to: Museum for Contemporary Photography, Villa Ghirlanda – Via Prova, 10 – 20092 Cinisello Balsamo (Milan);
• Children’s publications: provincial copy should be sent to Monza, Biblioteca Civica Centrale, Ufficio Deposito Legale, Via P. R. Giuliani 1, 20052 Monza.
• monographs, with a circulation of more than 200 copies (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, via Fiori oscuri 2, 20121 Milan, Italy)
• periodicals, including their paper and computer-based attachments such as CDs, DVDs and the like (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, via Fiori oscuri 2, 20121 Milan)
• music editions (scores, sheet music, etc.) (URFM, c/o Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, via Conservatorio 12, 20122 Milan)
• record productions on any medium (CDs, vinyl records, etc.) (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, via Fiori oscuri 2, 20121 Milan)
• musical audiovisual productions on any medium (DVD, Blu ray, etc.) (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, via Fiori oscuri 2, 20121 Milan)
• artists’ videos on any medium (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, via Fiori oscuri 2, 20121 Milan)
• Photocopies
• Typescripts or computer-generated printouts for personal use
• Teaching materials for training courses, for internal use
• Dissertations
• Interim editions, in case the final edition is published
• Articles, pending publication, printed in-house or at the University exclusively for competitive purposes
• Publications of foreign publishers, even if printed in Italy
• Periodicals with a number of pages of less than 10 that accompany mass-produced objects for the purpose of collecting (watches, pens, puppets, bottles, perfumes, music boxes, etc.)
• At present, the regulations do not cover the delivery of video games, since they belong to the category of software, which is not listed among the types of documents subject to filing under Article 4 of Law 106/2004
All publishing output must be delivered within sixty days after first distribution with the exception of periodicals for which there are exceptions to be determined with the administration. It is recommended that packages and parcels be marked, “Out-of-commerce specimens for legal deposit for the purposes of Law No. 106 of April 15, 2004” We kindly ask that packages be of contained size and weight.
Shipments must OBVIOUSLY contain a list in duplicate on which must appear:
• the publisher’s data, in particular: telephone, e-mail address and fax number of the person to be contacted in case of communications.
• the list of what has been sent
Please note that only after the documents delivered have been checked will a duly signed copy of the list be returned by fax or e.mail, which will constitute a receipt and must therefore be kept by the person concerned as proof of delivery.
Delivery, by mail or courier, should be addressed to:
– Braidense National Library, via Fiori oscuri 2, 20121 Milan, Italy.
Delivery hours: Monday through Friday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m;
– Ufficio Ricerche Fondi Musicali, via Conservatorio 12, Milan
Delivery hours: Monday through Friday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
User licenses. Open data
Data that the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense makes available to users in compliance with the provisions of Article 9 of Law No. 221 of December 17, 2012, which amends Articles 52 and 68 of the Digital Administration Code (Legislative Decree No. 82 of March 7, 2005).
Open Data, commonly referred to by the English term Open Data, is defined according to the definition provided by the Open Data Manual, a document prepared by the Open Knowledge Foundation as “data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed, with the sole limitation – at most – of requesting author attribution and redistribution in the same way (i.e., without changes being made).”
Downloadable data from this site can be used for any purpose, personal or commercial, in order to better understand the world of cultural heritage and create innovative services.
The publication of the datasets listed represents the first step in a strategy that aims to make available and reusable the information heritage held by MiBAC and its territorial institutes in order to promote a model of “open government” that, by intensifying the collaboration between public and private, renews the mutual relationship of trust.
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense Databases
List of datasets that MiBAC makes usable and downloadable in open mode.
The data can be freely reused according to the terms of the user license indicated for each dataset.
The Online General Catalogue (OPAC SBN) of the Library and Media Library describes the works acquired by the Library from 1958 to the present and about 60,000 of its historical holdings, from the 16th to the 20th century. It is updated on a weekly basis.
Contents: Catalog cards
Consistency: approximately 624,000 records
License: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
(http://emeroteca.braidense.it)
It reproduces in full in digital format 960 periodical titles made available by the Braidense Library, the Ferruccio Parri Library of the INSMLI, and the Attilio Hortis Civic Library of Trieste. For about 200 titles, articles have also been catalogued.
Contents: Textual files and images
Consistency: approximately 2,000,000 images
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.braidense.it/cataloghi/catalogo_rd.php e http://opac.braidense.it)
Collection of about 15,000 digitized volumes from the 16th to the 19th century (9,000 theater and music librettos and 6,000 other literary works from the Italian 19th century) searchable through the Library’s catalog.
Contents: Images
Consistency: approximately 15,000 volumes
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.braidense.it/cataloghi/catalogo_rd.php e http://opac.braidense.it)
Collection of about 15,000 digitized volumes from the 16th to the 19th century (9,000 theater and music librettos and 6,000 other literary works from the Italian 19th century) searchable through the Library’s catalog.
Contents: Images
Consistency: approximately 15,000 volumes
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.mediabrera.it/risorse/fenzio.php)
Catalog of the compact disc collection donated by Mauro Gornati, which can be consulted at the Santa Teresa Mediatheque.
Contents: Database
Consistency: approximately 23,571 records for 9,453 CDs
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/cataloghi/catalogomss.php)
Reproduces the paper catalog of the Music Fund Research Office in full digital format, with a search interface by drawer or field.
Contents: database, catalog cards and images
Consistency: approximately 162,000 images
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/searchforms.php)
Unimarc codes of musical forms: searchable multilingual database containing accepted and variant terms, definitions, and codes.
Maintained in cooperation with the International Association of Music Libraries.
Contents: database
Consistency: 2523 terms
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/searchmedium.php)
Unimarc codes: searchable multilingual database containing accepted and variant terms, definitions, and codes.
Maintained in cooperation with the International Association of Music Libraries.
Contents: Database
Consistency: 3036 terms
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/searchrelator.php)
English translation of the UNIMARC and MARC21 code tables that define the relationship between titles and names.
Contents: Database
Consistency: 293 terms
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/searchsigle.php)
Census database of public private and church libraries in Italy that hold music collections of historical interest, with links to the Italian Library Register, OPAC SBN (music) and OPAC RISM.
Contents: database
Consistence: approximately 2000 records
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/searchteatri.php)
Directory of historical representation places.
Contents: Database
Consistency: 328 records
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/searchcattem.php)
Directory of thematic catalogs of major composers, with citations for use in SBN, and direct link to SBN OPAC.
Contents: Database
Consistency: 200 records
License: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
(http://www.urfm.braidense.it/risorse/searchprefemm.php)
Directory of female names in the Noseda collection of the Milan Conservatory Library and links to the SBN OPAC (music).
Maintained in collaboration with the Milan Conservatory Library.
Contents: Database
Consistency: approximately 1,500 records
License: Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia
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