Access for external users

The access to the library is free but, for organisational and security reasons, it is ONLY ALLOWED after registration to Affluences (available in the major app stores as well as and on the web) and consequent reservation of both entry and seat  in the library.

Non-UniTO users can access the library by complying with the following prescriptions:

• After logging in to Affluences, search for the "Norberto Bobbio" library and select it.
• Choose ONLY among the options destined for "utenti ESTERNI" ("external" - i.e. non-UniTO - users).
• On your first time using Affluences, you will be requested to provide a valid email address for confirmation: please use the institutional address.
• On your first reservation you will have to CONFIRM it within two hours from receiving the confirmation email
  (NOTE: in order to avoid further requests for confirmation, flag the "Ricordati di me" option)
• When booking your access, you will have to choose day and time of entry, the desired duration of stay and the section of the library where you intend to sit
  (NOTE: The reservation is personal and it must be made by the very person who will occupy the seat)
• Consultation of the material stored in "Old and rare" books section is possible only concurrently to a reservation of seat in this very section. At the same time, seats in this section are reserved to users who need to consult books and documents stored therein, labelled with shelfmark A*
• You will receive an email with the details of your booking: keep note of them and ABIDE BY your RESERVATION!
• If you are unable to come to the library in the day and time chosen, you are highly recommended to CANCEL your RESERVATION, so to allow other users to access the library (in the confirmation email received after booking you will find a specific button for cancellation)
• in  order to avail themselves of the LOAN service, users must get a "guarantee" form, or malleveria, filled in and signed by a Professor of the University of Turin, and send it to biblioteca.bobbio@unito.it

After entering the library:

• VALIDATE your presence by scanning the QR-CODE by the entrance (through the App Affluences or any QR-code Reader)
  (NOTE; Reservations NOT VALIDATED within 1 hour from the beginning of the chosen time period will be automatically cancelled)
• occupy EXCLUSIVELY seats/workstations in the section of the library that you have chosen by reservation
• If you need to EXTEND your STAY, make a NEW RESERVATION

PLEASE NOTE: for security reasons, the library staff will carry out periodic checks of occupied seats and reservations.

Closures of the library and variations of opening times are announced in the section Notices in the homepage of this website.

Seats in the section for Ancient and Rare Books are available for reservation in the following hours: