Music collection
Economist's Library
The "Ovazza" collection of the Engineering Library
Academic Yearbook of the University of Palermo (1841-2008)
Collections of Mathematics, Computer Science, Ancient Books, Complete Works
Ancient Books Collection Central of Letters
Digital collection of the Library of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences
Thematic explorations in the UniPa Digital Library ...new ways to explore our digital libraries.
The Pathways section of the UniPa Digital Library was created with the aim of offering new ways of exploring the University's digital heritage, going beyond traditional archival and bibliographic classifications. Through a network of interdisciplinary relationships, this section offers thematic narratives that connect documents, collections and heterogeneous materials, promoting a cross-cutting and contextualised reading of digital resources. Each path is designed to enhance historical, cultural and scientific content, offering users – scholars, students and citizens – tools to explore specific topics and discover unexpected connections between collections.
Highlights
The Academic Library and Historical Archive System (SBA) coordinates the libraries and the Historical Archive of the University of Palermo. The libraries provide integrated services for consultation, lending, and access to print and digital resources in support of teaching, research, and the promotion of the bibliographic and documentary heritage. The Historical Archive is the designated institution for the recovery, preservation, and enhancement of the University’s historical memory and is responsible for documents relating to matters concluded at least thirty years ago. The materials it safeguards bear witness to the academic and scientific history of the University since its foundation, offering primary sources for studies and research projects.
The ancient collections of the University of Palermo constitute a corpus of extraordinary historical and cultural significance, comprising rare and valuable works such as incunabula, manuscripts, editions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, and bibliographic materials of particular importance. This heritage, which spans a wide disciplinary spectrum—from the humanities to the exact sciences—represents a strategic resource for academic research, for the safeguarding and preservation of historical memory, and for the enhancement and dissemination of knowledge
The monograph collections of the University of Palermo constitute a highly significant body of literature, comprising numerous volumes that span a wide range of disciplines. This heritage, which reflects the teaching orientations and research strands that have shaped the University over the decades, represents a fundamental resource for scientific research and the dissemination of knowledge.
The miscellanies held at the University of Palermo constitute a heterogeneous body of materials of particular historical and documentary interest. These collections include extracts, pamphlets, and archival documents, among which the valuable eighteenth- and nineteenth‑century Cautele stand out as significant testimonies of the administrative and legal practices of the period. Owing to their variety and uniqueness, this heritage represents a primary source for historical research and for reconstructing academic and institutional life over the centuries.
