The People’s Municipal Library of Bologna was a general library with an initial provision of about 5,000 volumes, besides newspapers and magazines. The services which were best appreciated by the public were the local reading of newspapers, the home loan and the broadness of opening times (ten hours per day, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.-10 p.m., in winter; seven hours, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4 p.m.-7 p.m., in summer; three hours, 9 a.m.-12 a.m., on holidays). The subject catalogue too, printed and made available to members of the library at a special price, met with great success.