the library history and structure
The Library was founded in 1962. It was open to the public in 1984
The Library building used to house the Town Market, which was built in 1891. During the seventies the Town Market was closed and subsequently restructured as it was to become the Town Indoor Stadium; adjacent to it there were a lecture room and an additional hall utilized as an exhibition area.
Around the end of the eighties, the structure was considered ineffective and the Library “Salvatore Farina” needed a new building, therefore the Local Administration hired the architect Salvatore Fois to convert the Town Indoor Stadium into the new library. Only three quarters of the walls of the original building were kept, while the back wall facing the ‘700 Fontana della Billellera (Billellera Fountain) was re-erected in order to build a large terrace and a stairway to a library garden. The works started in 1991 and finished in 1995.
The structure was officially open to the public on the 26th of July 1995 with a conference on the iconography of San Pantaleone Martire, the local patron. The building has a total area of 1240 square metres and the Library covers half the space; a wide reading room is made on a wooden mezzanine platform which is reached through two lateral stairways.
Nearby there is a Conference Room (with 175 seats, a projector and a microphone system). The furniture is from the Gonzaga of Mantova. The ground floor room comprises the newspaper library, the comic book library, the audiovisual section, the adolescent section and the preschool section; the upper room is mainly used for consultation with institutional aims
The ceiling is quite picturesque: made by a roof with exposed trusses in lamellar wood and steel tie beams, overtopped by an isolated package and with Canadian tiles externally, it all gives the structure a north European country feature.
The Library building used to house the Town Market, which was built in 1891. During the seventies the Town Market was closed and subsequently restructured as it was to become the Town Indoor Stadium; adjacent to it there were a lecture room and an additional hall utilized as an exhibition area.
Around the end of the eighties, the structure was considered ineffective and the Library “Salvatore Farina” needed a new building, therefore the Local Administration hired the architect Salvatore Fois to convert the Town Indoor Stadium into the new library. Only three quarters of the walls of the original building were kept, while the back wall facing the ‘700 Fontana della Billellera (Billellera Fountain) was re-erected in order to build a large terrace and a stairway to a library garden. The works started in 1991 and finished in 1995.
The structure was officially open to the public on the 26th of July 1995 with a conference on the iconography of San Pantaleone Martire, the local patron. The building has a total area of 1240 square metres and the Library covers half the space; a wide reading room is made on a wooden mezzanine platform which is reached through two lateral stairways.
Nearby there is a Conference Room (with 175 seats, a projector and a microphone system). The furniture is from the Gonzaga of Mantova. The ground floor room comprises the newspaper library, the comic book library, the audiovisual section, the adolescent section and the preschool section; the upper room is mainly used for consultation with institutional aims
The ceiling is quite picturesque: made by a roof with exposed trusses in lamellar wood and steel tie beams, overtopped by an isolated package and with Canadian tiles externally, it all gives the structure a north European country feature.
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