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This paper presents the research and experimentation that led to the development of a metal cladding element, part of a dry construction system for roofing and facades, designed to offer the market a product for use in new constructions and renovation. The project was initiated by a request from an Italian business for the Università Iuav di Venezia to assist in innovating the company's products and production processes to meet the new technical and aesthetic demands of the market. The report describes the working methodology used to create the system through a design process using digital methods and 3D prototyping. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates the influence of timber construction on architectural design through a critical analysis and comparison between two environmental and building contexts that are culturally and geographically different from one another: the experience of the former British colonies, represented by New Zealand, and the Mediterranean one, described by Italy. This comparison moves through the investigation on three themes: the cultural value of the construction process; the performance realm (environmental, energy and seismic ones as firsts); the design dimension. The contribution underlines divergences and similarities of the technological culture of design in two countries that share similar requirements regarding post-earthquake reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines how the relationship between the project and the matter is changing under the impact of digitalization and the productive and economical emerging paradigms, both in terms of process and product. The evolutionary path of the relationship between industrialization and architecture allow us to draw a picture which, starting from the first experience of standardizing prefabrication, lead to results increasingly oriented towards the personalization of realizations (Industrial Mass Customization). The essay proposes a critical reading of most recent and advanced technological innovations, focusing on the applications of 3d printing additive technology to the architecture and to the new scenarios of research opened for the project and the construction industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The secular bond between materiality and meaning in architecture has undergone, during the twentieth-century phase of productivistic optimism, a strong weakening. Starting from the analysis of some masterpieces, created by architects not aligned with Modernist orthodoxy, the paper seeks out the need to mend the relationship between materiality and sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ancestors can be a source, as well as the genealogical practice can be a tactical devise to obtain a passport, which enables people to move easier in a hierarchic global space. In the Argentinean case, on the one hand, the number of genealogical researches to apply for an Italian second citizenship raised up, on the other hand, the practice of the genealogy itself has become more popular, above all along the middle classes, whereas a basic genealogical knowledge has spread within the young generations. Using interviews, as well as bibliographical and statistic data, this paper aims to mark the complex connection, not only the instrumental one, between different genealogical practices produced by Argentineans of Italian descendant, Italian citizenship applications and the new Argentinean migration flows to Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the essay Trajan's Column narrated, which is part of the latest collection published by Italo Calvino himself. It is therefore a work of maturity. The purpose of our analysis is twofold: firstly, we want to make known Calvino's reading of the Trajan's Column - this "epic carved in the stone, one of the most extensive and perfect figurative narrations that are known to us" -, a writing little known to the wide audience. Secondly, we wish to emphasize the literary merits of this short, yet very dense essay, highly representative for the Italian writer's way of making literature, and already encompassing his recommendations for the next millennium literature: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pornography promotes a constant sexualization of various aspects of contemporary culture. This sexualisation can take place through direct channels, such as explicit pornography, or through the mediation of other cultural forms, such as cinema, fashion and art. Rock music played a decisive role among these channels. This paper takes into consideration the contribution to sexualization brought by the first great exponents of rock, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, examining the ways in which they sexualized their artistic expressions and the reasons that have favored their success among the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This short paper aims to explore analogies between the two famous embalmers from Lombardy, Giovan Battista Rini and Paolo Gorini. These extraordinary figures are wellknown due to their petrified specimens and are compared on the basis of preparation typologies, materials employed and the shroud of mystery that characterized their stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws a balance - starting from the detailed analysis of the book edited by Roberto Raieli, Advances in information and progress in knowledge: granularity, interoperability and data integration - of the state of the art and of the practical experience of cultural institutions of different nature and provenance around the use of linked open data (LOD) and of the semantic web, and tries to identify the lines of future development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fake news is a hot topic, not only in the professional debate. Among the roles libraries are ready to play there is educating to media literacy, meaning teaching people to think critically when they seek information in the digital space. If it is true that critical thinking is a cross-disciplinary skill, the school - the institution in charge of shaping basic skills - seems to be the ideal place to teach this kind of literacy, along with the other indispensable literacies leading to a self-conscious and active citizenship. The present paper, after a short definition of the key concepts, relates about an experience led during the first year of secondary school, inspired by Carol C. Kuhlthau's guided inquiry model and by the con-cept of 'third space', adapted to the specific situation. The synergy with the teachers led to many obser-vations and reflections on what it is necessary to do to to train students to think critically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the context of a renewal of Italian diplomatic studies, this essay analyses Florentine diplomatic strategies during the early decades of the 15th century, with the aim of shedding light on the close relationships between Florence and the legates of Bologna in the 1420s (Carrillo, Condulmer, Alamanni). Using both archival sources and the scholarly bibliography, the paper illustrates the features and effects of Florentine diplomacy with these papal representatives. This study demonstrates not only the importance of these negotiations within the wars against Filippo Maria Visconti but also how some future developments in Florentine politics and society originated from the bonds established in this period with these prelates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pope Benedict XIV did not start a beatification procedures to sanctify Imelda Lambertini, though he had honoured this young nun (who died in 1333) when he was prelate. Within an event where the gaps are more numerous than the surviving documentation, 18th-century erudition inspired by Muratori represents a time of impasse in the cult of the blessed Imelda. This paper reconstructs the history of the failure to support the cult of a member of his family on the part of Benedict XIV (1675-1758), and is divided into three parts. First, we outline the events and documents allowing us to reconstruct the information that Benedict XIV attempted to collect about his family blessed; second, we trace the 17th and 18th century development of the cult of Imelda to identify the salient features of an image of potential sainthood and to contextualize the issue of devotion to the Eucharist, linked to the life of the blessed Imelda, within the debate over the Eucharist. The final section attempts to define the reasons for the doubts entertained by 18th-century culture over this hagiographic event to explain the motivations that may have induced Benedict XIV to abandon this possibility, in light of the close but also profoundly critical ties between the Bolognese Pope and his family and native city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contains a synthetic analysis of the remedies available under Italian law for the enforcement of claims of marinas towards their clients, with particular regard to the right of retention and conservative arrest of pleasure craft. It considers the reasons why the application of the remedy of retention is problematic in this field and conservative arrest is a preferable option. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measuring and rating resilience of assets is a key enabler for asset and portfolio management. This paper presents a resilience rating system for buildings by utilising a Building Information Modelling approach. The assessment is carried out through a calculation following the Analytical Hierarchy Process. This methodology can be applied to different types of buildings, without a loss of precision or reliability. This resilience rating forms an integral part of more comprehensive array of Key Performance Indicators frameworks for asset and portfolio management, and therefore can significantly influence strategic investment choices for designers, engineers and building owners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results of a research conducted on codes and standards adopted internationally for the design, construction and testing of hurricane- and tornado-resistant façades. These façades are built using technologies that pass tests in order to verify the resistance of both the frame and the glazed surface to the impacts caused by wind-borne debris during these extreme meteorological events. The aim of the research is the identification of the best practices that have been adopted, in order to increase the resilience of building envelopes to this weather phenomenon, evaluating the possible applicability of adopting the principles to the specific needs of the European and Italian market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Effectively addressing the issue of climate resilience in urban areas requires the development of innovative design methods that can handle the complexity of the information needed to guide sustainable urban regeneration and retrofitting strategies, as well as to manage the technological and environmental solutions in a multi-scale perspective. The paper presents the methodology developed by the ARC3-2 Urban Planning and Design working group of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) and the results of the experimental activities conducted within Studios and Workshops promoted in New York, Paris and Naples by the New York Institute of Technology, the Polytechnic of Milan and the University of Naples Federico II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A methodology is presented to assess local criticalities and resilience to climate changes (CC) and UHI (Urban Heat Island). This analysis will consider the expected impacts on the local energy demand of the built environment due to climate-related variations. Climate-related indicators are proposed to assess a vulnerability index to CC and UHI in specific building-design contexts. Furthermore, these indicators will be applied to a set of locations in the Mediterranean climate while taking into consideration different local contexts to evaluate the resilience of a sample residential building by using, among other strategies, dynamic energy simulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper shows the results of an applied research aimed at developing an operative methodology and its corresponding computational workflow for the design of resilient architectures able to responsively react to the variation of the environmental conditions. The proposed methodology consists in a form-searching process built-up by a series of consequential and interrelated phases aimed at reducing the energy needs of the building and improving indoor and outdoor comfort conditions. The analysis of the processes, above defining the limits and potentials of the chosen design approach, opens the debate on parametric tools that allow to systematically explore the space o design possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past decade, the concept of resilience has been strategically and inextricably linked to the main aims of the Green Economy and 'process circularity' as applied to the field of the built environment and buildings, starting with the international policy documents published by UNEP in 2008 and by the OECD in 2010. This debate has only just been outlined and there is still plenty of research to be done, but the potential contribution of Technological Design in Architecture seems key. This paper critically analyses the principles, the method- and design-based approaches and the structural strategic measures that can improve the resilience of the built environment, as requested by the European Commission, and considers the prospects for its development in this country, both at a national institutional level and at a local level, primarily gravitating around the strategic working axes that have been outlined - and continue to be pursued - by the States General of the Green Economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the work of the Politecnico di Milano for the "Together It Can Be Done: Sant'Agabio Resiliente" project funded by the Cariplo foundation (2016). Inspired by the principles of the Transition Towns movement, the study intervenes in a multiethnic neighborhood of the Municipality of Novara with innovative actions that enhance the quality of urban environment. The original contribution of the project was the activation of the resilience of a community that is in the process of rehabilitation with goals of solidarity, inclusiveness, participation, and autonomy for the future. The strategies adopted have allowed the involvement of associations in activities relevant to environmental resilience and the facilitation of concrete actions able to generate empathy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The researches of Adger (2000), Martini (2015) and Malcevschi et al. (2017) suggest that there is an indissoluble relationship between society, territory and economy, factors which have reciprocal influence on each other in the creation of a specific ecosystem. The connection between these three elements feeds the built environment processes, predisposing its life cycle to various types of resilience. By analysing certain case studies, this paper aims to illustrate various forms of social resilience comforted by the anticipatory approach. The solutions proposed are presented together with details of the process models adopted and subsequently linked to different project and management methodologies which can be connected to the specifics of the technological project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lanius excubitor is a polymorphic species with 12 subspecies. In the last years the taxonomy of this species has been reviewed several times. According to the literature, in Italy Lanius excubitor is a regular migrator, wintering and irregular nesting, occurring with three subspecies: L. excubitor excubitor, L. e. homeyeri and L. e. sibiricus. This paper aims at reviewing the subspecies actually occurring in Italy by analyzing the specimens preserved in the Arrigoni degli Oddi's collection at the Museo Civico di Zoologia in Rome (Italy). The morphometrics and colouring of 66 specimens were examined in relation to the most recent literature data. This review allowed to demonstrate that all specimens described as L. e. homeyeri in this collection have to be attributed to the nominate subspecies; only the specimen described as L. przelwaskii (now L. e. leucopterus) is a true L. e. homeyeri. According to these data, the ssp. homeyeri must be considered very rare in Italy, contrarily to some previously reported information. Specimens ascribed to L. borealis sibiricus do not show the characters of this subspecies, consequently they should not be included in the check list of Italian species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Predatory and feeding behaviors of some bird species. This paper reports some unusual predatory and feeding behaviors of twenty-two bird species. Observations were carried out in Piedmont, Lombardy, Venetia (N Italy), and Holland (Noord Brabant). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Lankes in his paper presented to the International seminar "Biblioteche per apprendere" (held on October 23, 2017, at the Ministry of Education, University and Research in Rome) states that the core of librarianship is the creation of knowledge and, therefore, the libraries should help a community to learn. More in detail, speaking about school libraries, the author depicts the teacher-librarian, an educator trained in pedagogy with a curriculum in information problem solving, being able to engage students around information literacy and problem solving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the role of libraries and librarians in the fight against fake news, mainly focusing on four issues: 1) the relationship between content selection and content evaluation, which is relevant even in dealing with free on-line content and its discovery tools; 2) the relationship between the librarian's neutrality and her/his social responsibility in the wake of the growth and the danger of fake news; 3) the two different paradigms represented by 'neutral' and 'active' or 'expert' librarian; 4) the relevance for this discussion of the distinction between different kinds of fake news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today libraries face, among others, two interlinked challenges: on the one hand the abundance of information available especially on the Internet and, on the other, the widespread habit to consider all this information as plausible. The contemporary world (the so called post-truth society) considers truth as something that simply doesn't exist. This assumption contrasts with the idea of a library as an influential and legitimate structure of mediation between documents and readers. This paper aims to demonstrate that, particularly in a society where many points of view coexist, the search for truth has, at the same time, an epistemological, ethical, political and professional foundation. Truth is not to be considered an absolute certainty but, more intuitively, as 'things are as they really are': this is a public discussion about research, as a method and a deontological and ethic responsibility. Three complementary issues are discussed: the need to separate facts from opinions, i.e. by checking and censoring what is demonstrably false; with regard to opinions, the importance to clarify that secularism does not mean indifference to values; finally, with regard to library collections, the need to bridge the gap between abstract and normative decisions and the needs of users as they really are and not as they are imagined. The author emphasises the dramatic urgency of public libraries' mission and the professional role of librarians themselves, who are to be considered custodians of critical knowledge and freedom of thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a first reflection in Italy on the practices of open peer review (OPR), an umbrella term used to refer to several open and innovative ways to exercise the peer review in the scholarly communication web domain. OPR helps to overcome the drawbacks of anonymous traditional peer review. It improves the review process by making it more open and transparent and enhances the dialogue between scientists within the same discipline and between different disciplines. The paper also discusses the topic of the qualitative relevance of OPR. In conclusion, the author claims that OPR is still far from replacing traditional peer review models but it can become a valid support to create a better qualitative research evaluation system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do young children read? In which ways and postures? What moments do they dedicate to reading? What preferences do they have? At the time of a widespread diffusion of digital books, it is be useful to reason about the meaning of reading, which for children is not only a cultural mean but it is also a type of relationship, growth and pleasure. Extensive surveys and quantitative methods don't always grasp all the aspects of this social and emotional experience. At the same time, the peculiarities of the preschool age together with the complexity of this matter require less invasive data collection methods and various forms of surveys. This article will review some problematic examples of surveys concerning children's reading (Istat, Censis) and a number of past survey methodologies that can provide useful tools to analyze the current situation (Chamboredon-Fabiani). Finally the paper offers a methodological proposal which is intended to present the main elements behind the phenomenon of reading in preschool age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In attempting to investigate factors which may account for Aristophanes' revival in Renaissance times, the focus of this paper will be on Trissino's production, his reusing of passages and comic expressions from Plutus, in particular in the Italia liberata dai Goti. The primary goal of this study is to demonstrate that we are not talking about generic archaizing surfacing film, but concrete match to entire tracks, where Italian poet translates some Greek lines adjusting both traits and style to new different contest as well as audience (in greater detail, instead of the god and his distribution of wealth we see, here, a fairy and her spreading love...). This Trissino's personal way of approaching Aristophanes and entering lines from Plutus in the middle of his epic adventures proves that he quoted comedy regardless of topic but mostly like precious flourish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Membership contracts are excluded from the agrarian preemption regulation. In order to abuse of this exemption, some entrepreneurs build complex corporate negotiations. Moving from two recent sentences of the Italian Supreme Court, the paper investigates the reasons that justify the legislator’s choice, isolates some instruments for deciphering abusive conducts and selects the most effective remedy to protect the excluded pre-emptioner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has long become evident that fandom activity is a complex reality, but also the object of colonization and co-optation by the cultural industry, in a dynamic where fans themselves are co-creators. It is evident in the policies of transmedia franchising and in contemporary cult television textuality, but which may be found in different ways throughout the history of fandom and since its origin. This, at the very least, is true in the case of fandom related to science fiction, which represents an undoubtedly particular case: just think of the number of fans who, since the 1940s, have become professionals, such as writers, critics, researchers and even editors. The very birth of an organized science fiction fandom is due, at least in part, to the promotional activity conducted by the cultural industry "from above." More specifically, our paper analyzes, through the study of literature and archive research, the active role of Hugo Gernsback (editor of Amazing Stories, the first SF journal in the world) in the origin of science fiction fandom in the United States: In order to make the new genre known and promote the journal, not only did Gernsback favor the creation of passionate groups, publishing the readers' addresses and divulging news and information about meetings and clubs, he also founded a Science Fiction League, with offices in numerous US cities and even in England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reconstructs some delicate issues related to the attempt of constitutional reform that has occurred in Italy during the current legislature. Considering the rejection of the project, the author will highlight some aspects that are mainly methodological but that also have repercussions on the form of the institutions that the legislator has tried to affect. The work is structured in three parts. In the first, the author reconstructs some critical aspects of the framework in which the reform has been attempted, which has affected the way in which the latter has been carried out. In the second, the paper discusses the overall sense of the proposed actions, aimed at triggering a majority-personal dynamic in the framework of the Italian parliamentary system (also through important changes in the electoral legislation). In the third, the work identifies the limits of the construction delineated, in the light of the characteristics of the political context in which the same should have been implemented, and recovering analytical insights from comparative experiences. The main idea that emerges from the study is that the approach to the reforms adopted in Italy (today as in the past) relies too much on regulatory automatisms aimed at governability, disregarding the actions that should lead instead towards the development of the political culture of the actors, making the representative dynamics more fluid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The criteria to guide the selection in the varied publishing and commercial landscape of e-books concern many aspects, from platform contents to functionalities, from business models to digital right management. It is not easy to establish the best model among those offered, and information needs change from a library to another. The article examines the elements to take into account before the acquisition and during the monitoring activities, such as title price, use cost, collections' updates. In particular, the paper analyses the parameters that led to the acquisition of some e-book packages of large academic publishers and access data over 12 months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents some considerations about the organisation of catalogues and the functionalities of cataloguing tools with respect to the role of a public library. The first section focuses on the definition of the public library and its characteristics in a relationship with the catalogue. The second section deals with some problems of cataloguing organisation, specifically with the peculiarity of a public library catalogue as a bibliographic tool, the issue of cataloguing data types in relation to the users and the catalogue language, and catalogue use and its integration with the physical collection management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay introduces the conceptual model IFLA LRM (Library Reference Model) in its fundamental features and highlights the innovative changes. In detail, it studies the main changes in the definition of entities, attributes and relationships described in the previous model of FRBR family. The paper underlines the original introduction of a hierarchy of the entities specified in the model to create data more appropriate for the semantic web, the theoretical new expressed by the attribute "manifestation statement" and the potential effect on library data and their re-use in a semantic web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents an overview of the different forms of collaboration between the libraries and the world of Wikimedia. The article shows the many points of convergence between the librarians and the wikimedians. It describes the Wikipedia Library, the campaign #1Lib1Ref, the Libraries Project of Wikimedia Italia, the activities carried out in this area by BNCF and other Italian libraries. With regard to the reuse of bibliographic data, the contribution focuses on Wikidata and on WikiBib and WikiCite projects. The article finally explains the role of wikipedians in residence and describes the digital collections uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay follows a different and parallel analysis that became evident during a previous research on library science criteria and methods for collection development, conducted in order to ascertain the reliability of online catalogues as information sources with reference to authors and works for the scientific monograph assessment. Starting from a reconstruction of the Italian librarianship debate of the second half of the twentieth century around issues of library collection development, developed through the comparison with international literature, the paper examines the different actors' roles and the changed conditions of bibliographic collections during transition from cultural to librarianship management of Italian libraries' heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has been conceived within the PhD in Library and Information Science at La Sapienza University of Rome, and is focused on the vitality and effectiveness of Italian LIS studies. The paper describes the search in Web of science, Scopus and Google Scholar for any paper written by Italian LIS researchers and university professors, illustrating the research method, the difference of use – and limitations – of the three databases and the difficulties experienced with Google Scholar, and reporting WoS and Scopus numerical results as well. This first research results made it clear that, in order to investigate the presence and impact of Italian LIS studies, a correct use and organization of quantitative data is essential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Battiston and Sestigiani's paper examines a string of articles by Diego Novelli that appeared in «l'Unità» in 1971. These articles not only represent a detailed account of Novelli's trip to Australia but also a unique point of view on the Italian migrant workers' economic and working conditions, and the migrant workers' degree of integration into the social fabric of the host country. The paper argues that Novelli's trip aimed, on one hand, to expose the consequences of the Italian Government's emigration policy and the dire straits the Italian migrant working class in Australia had been experiencing. On the other hand, archival sources reveal that Novelli's trip hoped to lay down the foundations for a political activity geared to attract Italian migrants towards the Italian Communist Party and the Left. This was all the more facilitated by the conditions of exploitation of Italian emigrants found by Novelli Down Under. The essay by Daniela Cosmini-Rose and Desmond O'Connor examines the attitudes to Italian migration to Australia expressed in the press of both countries in the years preceding and following the signing of the agreement in 1951. It documents the ways that the two governments reacted to the Australian recession of 1952, which was unanticipated and for which Australia was unprepared, and how the press in Italy and Australia reported the protests and riots involving newly-arrived Italian migrants. It reaffirms the view that, unlike those who were sponsored by relatives or friends, the least «assisted» Italian migrants were in fact those who entered Australia as part of the government-assisted migration scheme. Francesco Ricatti and Matthew Klugman consider some of the results of an oral history project conducted in Sydney, on the importance of football (soccer) in migrants' lives. Through the analysis of 32 interviews with Italians who migrated to Australia in the postwar period, and with their children, the article aims to demonstrate the importance of football in the historical study of Italian communities abroad. The article focuses in particular on those themes that are central to the memories and reflections of the interviewees. These include the importance of their football passion, the role played by soccer in processes of adaptation and integration, the construction of complex identities through football fandom and sporting activities, and the proud awareness of the contribution of Italians to the development of football in Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reflection on an inquiry that emerged from research into questions about meaning that young children raise as a result of their encounter with the world. It explores the significance these questions have both for them and for the adults involved in their education. My aim is to understand the propositions they make that are in fact questions, the meanings which the latter take on for them, and the educational practices that foster the emergence of questioning processes in general. The observation of these educational practices and of the dialogue they are capable of stimulating leads me to conclude that young children's disposition to question the meaning of the world is a topic which is yet to be fully explored, despite the fact that in our time adults tend to value children deeply, and to show an active interest in their knowledge processes. Questions of meaning represent a sort of 'shadow zone' in comparison with the discourses usually associated with children and childhood, which appear to be profoundly influenced by those representations and images of the child that, albeit unconsciously, underlie both parents' and teachers' educational interventions. It is precisely one of the least salient of these representations - namely, that of the philosophical child - with which this paper is concerned. It is, on the one hand, a well-known image; on the other, it often has a blurred outline due to the multiple perspectives that can be recognized within its compass. Those concerned to engage the philosophical child aim both at explaining the functioning of children's processes of thinking and their ways of acquiring knowledge, and at understanding what are the most suitable educational interventions for promoting their philosophical development. The work of Lipman, Kyle, Matthews, and Martens is featured here in a brief exploration of various educational traditions, practices and pedagogical contexts that both respect and foster the development of the philosophical child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There has been a remarkable growth of the use of e-resources, and especially of e-journals by researchers, in every field of studies. Ensuring the accessibility and use by future generations is an important challenge for university and research libraries. The paper is particularly dealing with the problems of digital preservation of relevant scientific documents issued according to the Open access movement. After examining the characteristics of the diffusion and citation impact of Open access papers in scientific literature, the paper highlights the need for all the research libraries to preserve digital contents published in OA, to ensure the access and use for future researchers. The KB e-Depot and DOAJ project for OA digital preservation is taken into consideration, and systems for digital archiving and for cooperative preservation of scholarly journals' contents: PORTICO, the LOCKSS Alliance and CLOCKSS, are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the spread of ebooks has grown exponentially. 24/7 availability, portability, the advanced tools offered by platforms make this product particularly interesting for academic libraries, which are in an experimental phase with regard to the selection and acquisition of ebooks. The article analyzes three platforms (EBL, Ebrary, EBSCO), to find out whether an Italian medium-sized university library can buy foreign titles in electronic rather than paper, and under what conditions. It provides information about titles catalog, business model, features available. The cut is practical/experimental, since the comparison among the platforms is based on a set, used as a representative sample, of 150 monographs, published in the last 5 years by different publishers and purchased on paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dealing with spatial decision problems means very often to face a GIS and a multi-criteria decision analysis based problem at the same time. GIS and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis are two well defined research areas, but both can benefit one from each other. In the last twenty years several researches have paid attention to MCDA-GIS integration and to the development of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS), but few papers presented examples of perfect integration. Also in case of perfect integration, they often integrate within GIS only one multicriteria model. Our application is a better contribution in this way. We developed four GRASS modules that permit to implement four different MCDA methods: the Regime, the FUZZY, the ELECTRE and the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach. One of the main advantages of our application over the previous ones is the possibility of a future development in an open-source context. The paper presents an application of the Regime, Electre and Fuzzy modules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the transmigration on OJS platform of the «Bollettino AIB» volumes already hosted on the old AIB website, focusing on specific technical problems as well as on the wider theoretical issueof the difference between paper and digital reviews. The work – accomplished by a team of volunteer librarians – allowed the editorial team to implement the old review volumes with additional features. Besides, it offered the chance to consider how editorial decisions were made also depending on the review's format – the paper edition, the old digital edition hosted on AIB website, and the new digital edition published using OJS software. One of the most notable considerations is that not only the review content is heavily influenced by its media (analog VS digital), but that different digital architectures bring to different editorial choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On November 6, 2008 the J. Michael Goodson Law Library at the Duke University School of Law held a debate about the 21st century law library, i.e. about the development of law libraries in a transformed technological and informational environment. This is an extremely hot topic for Italian law libraries too, not so different from their American counterparts as for collections and services. The paper points out the salient features and criticalities of 21st century Italian law libraries: the ever increasing price of electronic resources, the growing disaffection towards paper, the necessity of a further development of Open access, the role of librarians in the process of digitalization and preservation of library documents, the different use of library spaces in a technological environment, the strategic role of information literacy, the cooperation between librarians and professors. Finally, it describes The Law Student Research Competencies and Information Lteracy Pinciples developed by the AALL (American association of law libraries) in order to improve the library services and promote the quality of research in the Law field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a few general issues concerning librarians' education and professional refresher training, and was inspired by a meditation on the deep changes that are taking place in the world of academic and research libraries. The subject has recently been addressed in a meeting held in Milan on November 22th-23th 2012 - “Stati generali dei professionisti del patrimonio culturale" (States-General of cultural workers) - promoted by MAB Italia. Also, it has become an hot topic after the recent approval of law no. 4 of January 14th 2013, Disposizioni in materia di professioni non organizzate (Rules on professions not governed by a professional order) which introduces new legal profiles for professionals not belonging to any professional order- librarians included. The paper makes a clear distinction between professional refresher training and higher education, claiming that technological and digital skills are essential for the profession, but have to be grounded on a broader and more structured cultural background that may help librarians to deal with the constant changes that all kinds of libraries are facing over and over today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the Nineteenth Century, anarchism spread among textile workers in the Veneto region. Many of them emigrated to America because of exploitation and political persecution. One of them was Isidoro Bertazzon. In 1907 he went to Canada, via Ellis Island, and then to Seattle, in the United States. In 1917, escaping arrest and deportation because he had distributed the anarchist paper Cronaca Sovversiva, he returned to Italy and in 1922 emigrated to Australia. In Melbourne Bertazzon was one of the editors of the anarchist paper Il Risveglio and a leader of the anti-Fascist Matteotti Club. He corresponded with leading anarchists in Europe and America. In 1930 he published L'Avanguardia libertaria, which in 1932 was banned by the federal government. Under surveillance from fascist consuls and the latter's informers, in 1933 Bertazzon settled near Griffith, New South Wales, from where he went on pursuing the anarchist cause, until his death in a car accident in 1940. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When we think about activities for children we inevitably take playing into account. Playing is in fact one of the most spontaneous and familiar activities of childhood. But play for children is not just a pastime, or a way simply to "have fun." Playing is, above all, one of the main forms of children's learning--in fact the major instrument available to the child for exploring the world. If this is so, what happens when we do philosophy with children? What does philosophy have to do with play? What is the role of the ludic dimension in philosophizing? Can we "play philosophy"? This paper addresses these issues, taking as a case in point an analysis of the Philosophy for Children program. P4C founder Matthew Lipman did not theorize or directly question the role of play within the curriculum he developed, but a careful reading of the program's novels and manuals shows it to be saturated by a playful approach to philosophizing. The same applies to the secondary literature on P4C, where the element of play is almost universally implicitly understood as a basic dimension of doing philosophy together. This paper is an attempt to make the importance of playing in the progream explicit, and to show how playful children's philosophizing can be, if it starts from an expression of wonder, shared in a community of inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental, social and economic challenges appear even more severe in cities, which are places with the highest population density where disparities and inequalities sharpen above all in peripheral areas characterized by the lack of services and connections, precarious infrastructures and environmental conditions, and fragile social relationships. Therefore, urban peripheries are privileged laboratories to test integrated strategies of regeneration with a place-based and people-centred approach that includes actions in crosscutting sectors. The capacity to face these phenomena requires welfare models based on ideas of social innovation, participation, and central role of the public space for the new scenarios of hope proposed by the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reports the results of a research Project intended to promote socio-ecological effect in the urban renewal projects of deteriorated Mediterranean metropolitan suburbs. The thesis is that the direct participation of the citizens in the urban metabolism meets the contingent needs of inclusion and social cohesion typically involving the complexity of urban life today. It also overcomes the oppositions aimed to the defense of established status quo or due to irrational fears. We focus on process aspects. In fact, the roster of best practices for urban renewal shows an increased growth in product offering. The experimentation conducted allowed us to verify the thesis demonstrating the social efficiency of processes in which the collaborative component is not limited to a teamwork design but features continuous participation in the operation of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]