The librarian Ada Sacchi Simonetta and the National Association of officials of libraries and municipal and provincial museums (1911-1931)

Abstract

The article describes the history of the National Association of Officials of libraries and municipal and provincial museums, established in 1911, on the initiative of the Director of the public library of Mantua, Ada Sacchi Simonetta.
The first group, chaired firstly by Sacchi, then by Albano Sorbelli and Giuseppe Agnelli was finally brought to the attention of Italian political life with the spread of the Memorial for a comprehensive and radical set of municipal and provincial public libraries and the organization of two national conferences in Padua in 1925 and in Bologna in 1928.
The President Ada Sacchi was particularly active in calling public and government attention to the need of a policy to regulate national libraries, both to economical and professional instances of public libraries. In 1931 the Association joined the nascent Association of Italian librarians, the only representative organization of the complex world of public and state libraries.