Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

The Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (German: Bibliothek der Freien Universität Bozen, Italian: Biblioteca universitaria di Bolzano) is a university library located in Bozen/Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.

The Library has its main seat in the central building of the Free University in Bozen-Bolzano (Universitätsplatz 1 - Piazza Università 1).

For the acquisition of books and other media, the Library follows clearly defined patterns and inserts Approval Plans.

The suggestions they make tend to be acted upon quickly and users can use the media without any bureaucratic obstacles.

A small percentage comes from the Governmental Department for Education, university and Research and from tuition fees.

Since its foundation the Library has collaborated with departments within the university and with external institutions, especially for digital innovations.

One of the first projects was the translation of the RVK (= Regensburger Verbundklassifikation) into English and Italian and the guidelines were recorded in the document "Brixener Richtlinien" (29 July 1999).

In collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, "Chatbot" had been developed.

The "Cybrarian" supported the librarians' work and answered questions 24 hours 7 days a week.

Another research project, which was sponsored by the European Union, dealt with "The Development of Multilingual Retrieval systems", and was called CACAO (Cross-Language Access to Catalogues and On-Line Libraries).

The leading information facilities on the Innsbruck-Bozen-Trent axis decided to cooperate in a more intensive way by realizing different projects and services.

Conventions for an intense collaboration in regard to inventory build-up and the reciprocal stock utilization were made with the University of Theology and Philosophy of Brixen-Bressanone and the Eurac Institute.

"GIM" (Gruppo Interuniversitario per il Monitoraggio dei Sistemi Bibliotecari di Ateneo) is the benchmarking system in Italy since 2000.