Departmental libraries

The European Documentation Centre (CDE) is an information centre created to promote and consolidate studies and research on the European integration process. The Centre collects, catalogues and makes available to the public a large number of official documents produced by the European Union as well as monographs on community policies. The CDE, whose establishment was stipulated at a special convention between Verona University and the European Commission, aims at: 1. helping the University to promote and consolidate teaching and research in the field of European integration; 2. to make available to the public (including non-university people) information on the Union and its policies, particularly by organising seminars and conferences on the more important themes of community law; 3. to participate in debates on the European Union, in so doing, establishing links with other centres and information networks.

It was founded in 1997 and since then has increased its contents considerably, something which has come about, in part, thanks to donations and legacies from companies and individuals. At the moment it has about 25,000 volumes and subscribes to 184 journals. This number is destined to increase due to ongoing significant bequests. The consultation room, on the 3rd floor, seats about 50 and here you can find collections of journals and works of a general nature (dictionaries, encyclopedias, digests, manuals). All the bibliographic material is catalogued with the Aleph application and can be found in the collective catalogue of the University libraries. This library, has therefore become completely integrated into the Verona university library system, by means of the Juliet project, and is linked to the other legal sources of the city's cultural institutions: the Public Library, the Republic Attorney Library, the Bar Council Library, the College of Accountants Library, the Accademy of Agricultural Science and Arts Library, The Seminary Library, the Capitulary Library and the Mediovenezia Bank Library. In 2001 the Verona Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Craftsmanship and Agriculture stipulated a convention with the Faculty of Law-Department of Legal Studies placing its own bibliographic patrimony into the hands of the "G. Zanotto" library for cataloguing and management. The material which was received (about 20,000 volumes) is now being catalogued and can be found in the S.S. Trinità rooms. It may be consulted and/or borrowed only such material as has already been catalogued( available in the OPAC system. Loans can be arranged by booking in advance, which may be done in person or by telephone, with at least one day's notice (tel. 045/8028839-8331-8844)