Library systems were the model set by the Library Act approved by the Region
Emilia Romagna in 1983. But while most town and counties in the region set up
local systems to integrate collection and service development, during the Nineties
Bologna District Councils obtained full control of their branch libraries, a
decision which slowed down the automation process undertaken by central libraries.
But finally branch libraries, too, entered the National Library Service, the
automated system to catalogue and manage documents and services: computers,
opacs and Internet helped to create a net and share resources. Thus the Istituzione
Biblioteche, a libraries self-governing authority, could be approved by the
Town Council in 2009.