OPAC SBN

The National Library Service (NLS or Italian SBN) is the network of Italian libraries promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, the Regions, the Universities and coordinated by the Central Institute for the Single Catalog. Currently more than 6000 state libraries of local authorities, universities, public and private institutions, operating in various disciplinary sectors, belong to this service.

Through the OPAC SBN catalogue, you can search the collective catalogue of the libraries participating in SBN.

Access the catalogue here:  OPAC SBN

In the catalogue you can find:

• descriptions of documents acquired by NLS libraries, starting from around 1990 or from the introduction of NLS into individual libraries
• "book in hand" descriptions of documents from the 15th - 21st centuries;
• descriptions recovered from paper catalogues prior to 1990.

To search on specific types of documents, you can access subsets of the SBN catalogue:

• modern books (monographic publications starting from 1831 and periodical publications without date limits)
• ancient books (monographic publications from the 15th century to 1830);
• music (handwritten music, printed music, music booklets from the 15th to the 21st century, sound recordings)
• graphics
• cartography.