STAR20 - NORMATIVA ARCHIVISTICA E DELLE BIBLIOTECHE

1) The Italian Archival Administration and its tasks.
- Introduction to the subject, structure and tasks.
2) Italian Archival Legislation
- Overview of archival legislation from ancient Rome to the birth of the Kingdom of Italy;
- Nature and use of archives from the ancient world to the 19th century. The Legislation of the Pre-Unitarian States;
- Kingdom of Italy and the Unification of the Archives of the Pre-Unitarian States;
- The Cibrario Commission 1870 and the two different conceptions of the system;
- The unification of the Archives in the Ministry of the Interior (R. D. 5 March 1874,n.1852) with the involvement of the Ministry of Education.
3) The State Archives
- From the Unification of Italy to the First World War;
- The categories of documents preserved in the State Archives;
- The Archival Superintendencies established in 1939;
- The advent of the Constitution of the Italian Republic and Article 9.
4) The Archives and the Regions
- The State nature of State records;
- The transfer to the Regions of administrative functions already entrusted to State bodies;
- Regions and supervision of non-state archives;
- The rules on central ministerial organisation and new intermediate bodies;
- The Department "for Archival and Book Heritage";
- The Schools of Archival Studies, Palaeography and Diplomatics;
- The "historical archives" of departments that do not submit their records to the Central State Archives (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Army, Navy and Air Force General Staff, the Historical Archives of the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza);
- Archives of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Republic;
- Archives of the Presidency of the Republic;
- Archives of the Constitutional Court.
5) Archives as a cultural asset or of cultural importance from the 1999 Consolidated Text on Cultural Heritage to the 2004 Code on Cultural Heritage and Landscape.
- The Regulation of Public Archives;
- The gradual affirmation of the substantial historical and cultural importance of archives;
- Consultation of documents and protection of confidentiality;
- Public archives and "publicised" private archives: confidentiality and coordination with the provisions protecting access to administrative acts;
- Confidentiality of documents and modes of consultation for historical purposes;
- The declaration of confidentiality and the regulation of exceptions to the principle of free consultation in state and public archives;
- The discipline dedicated to private archives of declared cultural interest;
Ecclesiastical archives and consultability.
6) Confidentiality of archival documents and relations with the State Secret and other cases of secrecy.
7) The subject of historical archives in the objectives of the European Union.
8) The Italian Library System and its forms of management
- Public Libraries ;
- National Libraries;
- The Historical Libraries;
- The University Libraries and State University Libraries of the Ancient Regime;
- The Libraries attached to monumental sites;
- Private Libraries and their Usability:
- The Libraries of the State Archives;
- The Libraries of Constitutional Bodies (Chamber of Deputies, Senate of the Republic, Presidency of the Republic, Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation);
- The reform of Title V of the Constitution;
- Regional, Provincial and Municipal Libraries and Regulations.