The documentation center, designed from the needs for study and research related to the Foundation’s scientific work, was opened to the public in 1990, the year the library was inaugurated; the organization of the iconographic archive, the construction of the cartographic library and, since the late 1990s, the design of the archives have been joined in the following years.
Collections and book and documentary funds, the result of donations or acquisitions, are preserved and made available, maintaining their unity, in the relevant sections.
All published materials, preserved in the library and cartographic library, are catalogued and accessible through the general catalogue on electronic media, also available online. Documentation pertaining to the archive and iconographic archive is partially catalogued and inventoried.
The services offered are divided into: reference, loan (local, interlibrary), document delivery, internet station, dedicated station for consulting multimedia resources, reproduction (self service or on request), study room, consultation room, research on request, guided tours.
Library
Public opening hours
Tuesday and Thursday 9-17 a.m.
Wednesday and Friday 9-14 a.m.
Address
Via Cornarotta 9,
31100 Treviso
The library’s holdings consist mainly of published documents (books, journals, multimedia), but also other materials (dissertations, press reviews, minor materials) documenting knowledge related to the main fields of scientific work in which the Foundation is engaged: landscape governance, Veneto history, history of play.
Library
The cartographic heritage, subdivided by funds and series, consists mainly of contemporary materials, plates prepared by the Italian Military Geographical Institute, regional technical maps, cadastral maps, models, aerophotogrammetry, satellite maps, orthophoto maps. Also preserved are numerous copies of historical cartography (anastatic editions, photographs, slides), as well as materials developed by the Foundation in the course of its research activities.
The documentation includes 7,361 maps, 3,000 regional technical maps, 147 original cartographies of Treviso and its territory, 447 aerophotographs, 1,600 slides, 529 CDs and DVDs, and 148 roll tubes.
The cartographies can be found through the library’s unified electronic catalogue and are not reproducible.
The Foundation’s archives includes the institutional archives and some aggregated archives. Particular attention is paid to the formation of the current archives, which, according to a project drafted at the end of 2002, makes use of organization and management tools including the computerized protocol register and the classification titulary.
It is possible to access the archive in accordance with the regulations and by prior appointment with the head of the department. In addition, it is possible to consult audio and video recordings of public events organized by the Foundation both on-site and online, upon request and reservation, through a temporary authentication password.
Informations
via Cornarotta 9, 31100 Treviso
T +39 0422 5121
For information and consultation
contact the archives manager
Francesca Ghersetti
tel. +39 0422.5121, archivio@fbsr.it
Archive Sections
The section includes bibliographic and/or documentary fonds of different nature and origin, acquired by the Foundation in various capacities or deposited here.
These are mainly archives or collections from institutions or produced and collected by individuals in the course of their professional activity, or as a result of specific collecting, study or research interests. All fonds are preserved and available for consultation in the relevant areas of the Documentation Center, as specified for each and according to the relevant regulations.
Informations
via Cornarotta 9, 31100 Treviso
T +39 0422 5121
For information and consultation
contact the archives manager
Francesca Ghersetti
tel. +39 0422 5121, archivio@fbsr.it
Projects
From the collaboration between Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Fabrica and Benetton Group with its Historical Archive comes Benetton Research Libraries, a common software platform to make available, from a single access point, the heritage collected over decades of activity by libraries linked to the Benetton world.
Great cultural heritage at your disposal
Benetton Research Libraries
From the collaboration between Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Fabrica and Benetton Group with its Historical Archive comes Benetton Research Libraries, a common software platform to make available, from a single access point, the heritage collected over decades of activity by libraries linked to the Benetton world.
The development of book and documentary collections within the documentation centre is the outcome of donations by people and institutions. The Fondazione would like to give them merit by publishing their names.
Opening hours
Tuesday and Thursday 9 am – 5 pm
Wednesday and Friday 9 am – 2 pm
Address
via Cornarotta 9, 31100 Treviso
T +39 0422 512103, fax +39 0422 579483