Tractant fabrilia fabri:Virginia Carini Dainotti, una bibliotecaria tra impegno e delusione

Guerrini, Mauro

Bollettino AIB 1999 39 (4)443-448
(ReLIS:jul:rkgani:y:1999:v:39:i:4:p:443-448)

Abstract:

Reading about the speeches by Virginia Carini Dainotti published in professional magazines and volumes from the Forties to the Sixties, we have the impression of a very competent librarian and an intelligent and cultured Ministry official who happened to work in a political reality that was muddled and with an amateurish administration - that of Italy post World War II - incapable of realizing a project of an efficient, uniform, coherent and nation-wide library system, like those present in the countries of central-north Europe and the United States. Carini Dainotti often dwelled upon the nature of the Italian Governments of the Fifties and denounced the lack of funds for libraries and the absence of a co-ordinated policy for libraries with the goal of educating Italians, both the working and middle classes. Carini Dainotti, with reference to Europe charged libraries with an aspect and function that may have appeared rather excessive, but nevertheless denoted the important place that libraries can have in social emancipation. While France, Belgium, England, Germany and the United States had nation-wide networks of libraries that enjoyed ample public finance, Italy totally neglecting investing in them..

Keywords: Bibliotecarios ; Italia
Pages: 443-448
Volume: 39
Year: 1999
Issue: 4

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