ICTP Library Update

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Dear colleagues,

You may have noticed over the past few days that piles and boxes of 
books and journals have appeared in the LB main lobby. This is an early 
step in the redesign and renovation of ICTP's Library. Thanks to 
generous funding from an anonymous donor, ICTP has begun the task of 
digitising its book collection; once digitised, the materials are being 
shipped to Bookfarm, an antiquarian bookshop in Germany that promotes "A 
Second Life for Books" (https://bookfarm.de/en/). So far, approximately 
7,000 Springer monographs have been digitised, removed from the Library, 
and are now on their way to a second life. The books remain a part of 
ICTP's permanent collection, but as digital resources.

In addition, some 1,200 linear meters of print journals are now 
available in electronic form through the library’s licenses or, in a few 
cases, can be retrieved via document delivery within 24 hours.

The freed-up library space will be repurposed to create new workspaces 
for the scientific community in the future.

Over the past few years the Library has steadily grown its digital 
resources. The collections now comprise approximately 53,000 print books 
and more than 4,400 current electronic periodicals, and about 30 which 
are only received in print. Catalogued e-books are over 52,000 and 
growing. Several thousand digital documents of different types are in 
the archives.

ICTP Library




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