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The article illustrates the history and the activity of the "Mediateca LEDHA", born in the Eighties with the purpose of supporting the social and cultural activities of the LEDHA association. The aim of the association is to promote the diffusion of an equal opportunities culture and to protect the right of an independent lifestyle for disabled people through cultural activities (communication. meetings, loan services of books and movies, searches, publications) and further education. The "Mediateca LEDHA" stores a wealth of book and multimedia material on the topic of disability. collected during 40 years, and from 2022, thanks to the mediation of AIB Lombardia, has entered the Polo SBN Città di Milano (PCM). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reconstructs from an historical point of view the evolution of library services within a scientific-technical university such as the Polytechnic of Milan, from 1863, the year of its birth, to the present day. The birth of the Central Engineering Library, the consultation and loan services provided since the dawn of the institution and the creation of the first bibliographic catalogs will be described. The article will also study in depth the problems of managing a library of national importance in particularly difficult periods of Italian history (Second World War, 1968 student protests) and the solutions implemented by the Directorate of the University to meet the needs of an ever increasing number of students and the transformation of the Polytechnic from an elitist place to a mass university. In the last part, I will outline the evolution of a constantly expanding university (birth of the regional poles, Bovisa project) and the birth of decentralized libraries with respect to the historical site, finally studying the offer of library services of the present time in an era characterized by the race for technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Roberta Moro interviews the curators of #iostoacasaaleggereepoi?, the first instant book experiment in Italy on the subject of reading and the world of books during the Coronavirus epidemic, to understand how the project of this innovative volume has taken shape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In September, 1785, Giacomo Casanova, the famous Venetian adventurer, moved to the Dux Castle in Bohemia (now Duchcov, Czech Republic) where he was hired as a librarian by Count Waldstein. This article examines Casanova's last years, marked by his exorbitant literary production while he was facing the difficulties of old age and he troubled relationship with the Count's servants. Prostrated by illness, Casanova died in Dux on June 4th, 1798, after finding out that a few months earlier, with the Campoformio treaty, Napoleon had yielded his beloved motherland, Venice, to Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]