The San Giuseppe Library was founded, in a reduced form, in the 1940s as a support to the San Pietro Philosophical-Theological Institute of Viterbo. Currently, it consists of a reading room and two large sections, divided into several rooms for storing and preserving books and magazines. Starting from an initial core of 12,000 volumes and about 120 Italian and foreign magazines, by the late 1970s it reached about 25,000 volumes and 150 magazines. By the late 1980s, the collection totaled approximately 35,000 volumes and 190 magazines, and at the beginning of the new millennium, the volumes had risen to 41,000. Today, the library holds about 47,000 books and around 250 magazines. The most carefully curated fields were initially philosophy, history (especially the origins of Christianity), patristics, dogmatics, morals, liturgy, pastoral studies, and canon law. Subsequently, there was significant development in the fields concerning the sciences of education, namely psychology, pedagogy, and sociology. Alongside these fields, the literary section (classical, Italian, and foreign), hagiography, catechetics, teaching, Judaism, and Near Eastern archaeology sections have also expanded. The library, which has electronically cataloged its entire book collection, is a member of ABEI (Italian Ecclesiastical Libraries Association), is included in ICCU (Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries), and receives subsidies and contributions from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Lazio Region, and the Province of Viterbo.
Information on San Giuseppe Library
Via A. Diaz, 25
Viterbo (Viterbo)
+39 0761 343134 (Internal number 222)
https://www.teologicoviterbese.it/biblioteca.html
Source: MIBACT
