The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information (in
Italian
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: ) is an Italian
government agency
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that was created in 1975 to supersede the ''Centro nazionale per il catalogo unico'' (National Union Catalog Center), that had in turn been created in 1951 to build a single catalog of all the libraries in the nation.
The institute today manages a network of libraries called , or SBN; it is answerable to, and technical-scientific advisor for, the ''Direzione generale Biblioteche e diritto d'autore''.
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Education in Italy
Government of Italy
Libraries in Italy
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