The ICCROM Library, established in 1959 with a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation, contains the world's most extensive collection of resources, in a wide variety of languages, on every aspect of heritage conservation. It offers support to ICCROM staff, governmental agencies, and conservation students and professionals both in Rome and throughout the world.

The Library is located in ICCROM's headquarters in Via di San Michele 13, Rome and is open to anyone interested in heritage conservation from:
Monday to Friday 10:00 – 17:00

ICCROM Library Catalogue

There are currently more than 100,000 entries in the catalogue. The main subject areas are: conservation and preservation of historic buildings, towns, landscapes and archaeological sites; movable heritage of all kinds and library or archival materials; history and philosophy of conservation; technology of materials; analytical techniques; museology; training; legislation. The catalogue can be consulted online at http://biblio.iccrom.org and also via the Bibliographic Conservation Information Network (BCIN). Many of the references include an abstract in English and all can be searched via keywords. The Library collection includes:

• books and monographs
• periodicals (over 1,800 current titles)
• conference proceedings
• general reference works
• legislative texts and international recommendations
• offprints
• published and unpublished reports
• audiovisual materials

For further details of services and other libraries specializing in conservation literature, click on library services and other conservation libraries respectively.

ICCROM Library
Via di San Michele 13
I-00153 Rome RM, ITALY
tel: (0039) 06 58 55 33 67/06-58 55 33 66
fax: (0039) 0 658 55 33 49
website: http://library.iccrom.org
e-mail: library (at) iccrom . org

updated on: 10 November, 2011