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1. The Frati Sorbelli catalogue

The catalogue contains the bibliographic descriptions of the printed material, including periodicals, acquired before 1960 (many old books acquired and catalogued beginning from 1961 are described in more recent catalogues of the library).
It is structured in four sections: AUTHORS (AUTORI), SUBJECT (ARGOMENTO), BIOGRAPHIC TOPICS (SOGGETTI BIOGRAFICI), and GEOGRAPHIC TOPICS (SOGGETTI GEOGRAFICI):

The AUTHORS section contains documents of which the author is known (or the title, if the work is anonymous); the compound lastnames are arranged so they can be found in different forms, ex: De Sanctis or Sanctis (De); sometimes the names are italianized, ex: Omero and not Homerus; Cicerone, Marco Tullio and not Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- The section by SUBJECT contains documents on the specific topic
- The section by BIOGRAPHIC TOPICS contains documents on a specific person
- The section by GEOGRAPHIC TOPICS contains documents on a specific location

2. The Classification

The pressmark is the sequence of numbers, letters or words that indicate the position of the book in the shelves of the library. In the principle cards of the catalogue you find in the bottom left:

The reference cards instead redirect you from a form of the heading to another: at the bottom left you find a V (=look) followed by the search voice:

The cards of the sections divided by SUBJECT, BIBLIOGRAPHIC and GEOGRAPHIC TOPICS, are all cards of reference. Since the cards were arranged (and will be arranged) and standardised, there con happen cases of "Reference" without a matching in the main cards.

The pressmark it's an essential data to find the item: please do not select "reference" cards, without pressmark, when using the on-line reservation service.

3. Free Search (Ricerca libera)

The Search can be done only on the title of the Cards, with the following criteria:
- the "AND" operator is automatically added between the typed terms
- It is possible to utilise the asterisk character * at the end of the word to substitute any number of characters (ex: abb* will give the results Abbazia, Abbigliamento, etc.)
- The searches are not case sensitive, ex: searching bologna, Bologna, or BOLOGNA will provide the same results
- The searches are not sensitive to accent character or other specific character ex: searching citta or città will provide the same results
- Non textual characters (apostrophes, hyphens, commas, etc.) are not considered search terms and can be omitted.

4. List Search (Ricerca per lista)

The list search permits the skimming of every section in alphabetical order, starting from the term or group of letters specified.

If the term is not present, the list will go to the following term.

5. Presentation of the Search Results

After every search, the list of the items corresponding to the searched terms, in alphabetical order.

The results are distributed into 4 sections, AUTHORS, SUBJECT, BIOGRAPHICAL TOPICS, and GEOGRAPHIC TOPICS.

The first results shown are from the AUTHORS section. To access the other sections click on the corresponding tab.
To the left of every title appears in between parentheses the number of the corresponding cards.
To see the cards connected to more titles tick the box of the desired items and click on the icon "visualizza le schede selezionate".

Clicking on every title will visualise the corresponding cards, in the following order:
- the AUTHORS section is based on the date of the text edition
- the SUBJECT section is based on date of the text edition
- the BIOGRAPHICAL TOPICS are according to alphabetical order of the reference reports at the AUTHORS section
- the GEOGRAPHICAL TOPICS are based on the date of the text edition.

In some cases a signal arrives that the title of the card was corrected and may not be in chronological order.

At the top of the card a link is present to return to results list. Two arrows permit to go forward and backward through all of the titles, as if to flip through the cars inside drawers.
Click on the card to enlarge the image. Click again to return the image to its original size. It is expected that the display of the front and reverse sides, where appear, for example, indications of the place of origin of the example or other accesses in the catalogue.
  

The cards crossed out in blue indicate the documents that are also cataloged in SBN and are followed by the link to the Catalogue of Polo Bolognese (or in some cases from the link to the corresponding card).
The cards crossed out in red indicate the documents temporarily unavailable.

6. Reservations (service in experimental phase)

CAUTION: it is not possible to reserve selecting cards of reference (rinvio), lacking classification.

To reserve a document:

1.) click the button "Reserve document" posted on the card
2.) complete the requested fields in the reservation model: Name, Last name, Telephone number or email address
3.) if you are requesting a periodical or a work with multiple volumes specify the year or the volume that is desired
4.) click the button "send reservation" (the system cookies must be enabled) and print the summary of the sent request.

The documents will be available 24 hours after the request is sent.
If a document is unavailable you will be advised by email or telephone.
The reserved documents are held for 7 days starting from the expected consultation.
The consultation take place according to the conditions expected for reading the book inside the Library.
In the case that it is impossible to withdraw the document, please cancel the reservation by calling 051 276822 or sending an email to DistribuzioneArchiginnasio@comune.bologna.it