Direct Loan

Schedule
The loan service is open: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.

Admission
All Italian citizens who are at least eighteen years old, reside in the Lazio region and are able to prove their residency are eligible to use the loan service at this library. Non-residents of the Lazio region may be admitted for limited periods:
– Italian citizens, citizens of the Vatican City State and the Republic of San Marino, as well as citizens of States belonging to the European Community who can prove their domicile, even if temporary, in the Lazio region for study, research or work purposes;
– citizens of non-EU countries who, in addition to proving residence in Lazio for study, research or work purposes, are in possession of certification attesting to the period of residence.
In order to register for the loan service, two passport-size photos must be provided in addition to the documentation indicated. The user is issued with a card, which is annual and renewable and must be presented at each request.

Modality
No more than two works may be lent to each user at the same time, with a maximum of four physical units.
The duration of the loan is thirty days, extendable, in the absence of bookings by other users, for a further thirty days. For works placed in Coll. (Collections) the loan period is fifteen days.
The library is entitled to demand the return of the work at any time.

User’s Obligations
The user of the loan service is obliged to immediately notify any change of residence or domicile, not to lend the volumes received on loan to others and to return them punctually within the permitted time limit.

Sanctions
A user who does not return the borrowed volume on time is asked to return it.
At the same time, the user is excluded from the loan service until it is returned.
If a borrowed work is returned damaged or lost, the user is requested to restore or replace it, which, in the judgement of the Director of the Library, may be replaced with another copy of the same edition, with a copy of a different edition provided it is of the same completeness and of similar typographical layout, or, if this is impossible, with the purchase of a work of a commercial value not less than twice the value of the work itself.
When thirty days have elapsed to no avail from receipt of the invitation, if there are no impedimental reasons beyond one’s control, the defaulting user shall be excluded from attendance at the Library, shall be reported to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism for exclusion from State public libraries pursuant to Art. 41 of the Regulation of State Public Libraries (Presidential Decree 417/95) and is reported to the judicial authorities.
The Library Director may also propose the exclusion from attendance at state public libraries of any person who, being responsible for damage to or loss of a work received on loan, has returned or otherwise compensated for the damage.
Excluded persons may be readmitted to the service, provided that they have complied with the formalities specified in the order that ordered their exclusion.

Works excluded from the loan
– All works with a publication date prior to the last 100 years
– Works from the Arcadia Academy Fund, the Bocelli Fund and the Tartaro Fund
– Works with autographs regardless of their location
– Periodicals (both loose and bound)
– Miscellaneous bound volumes
– Anastatic Editions
– Numbered editions
– New works for the period (thirty days) in which they are on display
– Large-format works (volume height greater than 30 cm)
– Works in a precarious state of conservation
– Luxury or richly illustrated editions
– Reference works (Room A, B, C; Cons.; Bibliogr.; Bibliography Directorate)
– Facsimile Editions (Facs.)
– Works placed at: Cont.; Friars’ Room (letter, Roman numeral, Arabic numeral)
– Exhibition catalogues (Cat. Exhibitions)
– Works on non-print media