Casalini Libri: oltre 60 anni di storia fra tradizione e innovazione

Abstract

Last May 21st the University of Florence confered the Laurea magistrale ad honorem in Library and information science to Michele Casalini. This decision prove the great awareness of the academic community to a militant and international Library science and recived the approval of the Library world expressed by Rosa Maiello, the president of the AIB. This is the second Laurea ad honorem in Library and information science confered in Italy and the first in modern Library and information science. During the cerimony Michele Casalini present his Lectio doctoralis about The centrality of libraries for progress and democracy and he affirmed the central role of Library in our society and in the academic information chain.