Library

PONTIFICIO ISTITUTO ORIENTALE

Piazza S. Maria Maggiore, 7

00185 Roma

Tel.: +39.06.44741.7122

Fax.: +39.06.44741.7175

E-mail: biblioteca@pio.urbe.it

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LIBRARY HOURS

The Library is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8.30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday from 8:30 to 12:00 p.m.
The Library is closed to the public from the first of July until the middle of September and on national holidays.

  

LIBRARY CATALOGS

The online catalog is avalaible on site here and on the internet.

The card catalogue is still available but has not been updated since 1993.

 

REFERENCE COLLECTION

In the reading room, users are free to access general works, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and other texts of primary importance in the specific areas of the Library.

Users also have free access to a wide range of the latest issues of academic journals.
The Library staff is always ready to help with the searches, to provide assistance in catalogue consultation, to locate works that are for public access, and to retrieve other works for consultation from the stacks.

Books in closed stacks can be obtained for consultation by filling a request form available at the desk.

BORROWING

Book lending is limited to community members residing at the Institute.

 

INTERLIBRARYLOANS

The Library does not offer the service of interlibrary loan.

 

PHOTOCOPYING

Photocopying is provided at the Library on personal request, or by mail, fax. This service abides by Library regulations and the norms for the tutelage of authorship rights (Law n. 248∕2000).

TOURS

At the request of professors and through the initiative of the same Institute, the Library accepts visits by student groups under the direction of a faculty member of the Institute with the aim of introducing the students to the Library’s services.

 

ADMITTANCE

The Library is specialized in the particular courses and the areas of study that are offered at the Pontifical Oriental Institute. It is primarily destined for the use of students and professors of the Institute, who have free Library access. It is open, however, to other users such as university students, researchers, and professors, from whom a personal request letter for admission is required with an original document that confirms their position (Student ID or certificate of student registration in another university, letter of teaching employment, etc.). The Library director approves admission requests according to the availability of places.