The library of the “Casa del Fascio” of Bologna, inaugurated on 1st of March 1925, was a library of general information with a rich collection of books, newspapers and magazines. Open to the public also in the evening and on holidays, it was attended daily by approximately 300 readers. Conceived to promote the fascist ideology and organize consent through control over reading, it was associated with the People’s Municipal Library in 1929. War events and Fascism’s defeat determined the fate of both libraries. During the years of the world conflict, periods of total or partial closure occurred together with losses of volumes and, above all, the merging of the collection of the “Casa del Fascio” library into that of the People’s Municipal Library. This latter, in the immediate post-war period, regained the role of public reading service of the municipality of Bologna.