In recent years, renewed impetus has been given to the management of the library of the Sicilian Society of Natural Sciences, housed in the premises made available by the University Museum System of the University of Palermo at the Geological Museum “G. G. Gemmellaro” in Corso Tukory, 131.
The library is mainly made up of scientific and popular magazines that exchange their editions with the volumes of Il Naturalista Siciliano, as well as donations and occasional acquisitions of monographs, conference proceedings and extracts.
Following a re-cataloguing and computerization work on a relational database, the library currently includes over 14,000 titles which encompass most of the panorama of naturalistic disciplines, both in the biological field and in the earth sciences and humanities. Exchanges with Il Naturalista Siciliano currently refer to over sixty magazines from various scientific and naturalistic institutions (Museums, Associations, university and research institutes, etc.) from all over the world.
Thanks to a donation from Dr. Gabriella Di Palma, the bibliographic collection of Marquis Antonio De Gregorio - former president of the SSSN - was recently acquired, which includes over 600 titles, all in original, currently being arranged and digitally reproduced. The publications of this eclectic scholar, active in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries, embrace countless fields of interest, not only strictly naturalistic, ranging from agriculture to geology,
to astronomy, physics, paleontology, malacology, mountaineering and speleology.
corso Tukory 131, Palermo
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