People involved at OAB:
A special task for 2003 was the intense contribution to the first
complete INAF report on its libraries, which was prepared for INAF
between November 2002 and May 2003. On the whole, our library's
activity for 2003 has in any case seen a main emphasis on the ordinary
activities, which remain well-appreciated by our 
950 registered
users.
It is widely accepted that the mission of modern libraries focuses on the
access services to information. At this time, we have again managed
as many as 
80 document delivery requests for a total of 90 articles;
our library is mainly a supplier (with 
of requests being sent out
to other libraries and 
asked for internal researchers), which
demonstrates that the internal research personnel has generally been
satisfied with the documentation our library has given access to
in 2003.
The number of inter-library loan requests has increased by 30%, with
an average of almost one a month. Here too, only 
of requests
comes from the inside, whereas the large majority of requests managed
has served external libraries and researchers.
Our library's web page in 2003 has been visited as many times as
during the first year of its complete renovation: last year's visits
have exceeded 9000, making it one of the best-liked
web resources on the local server.
The cataloguing activities have continued, acquiring to the online
catalogue older books previously catalogued only in paper form, as well
as local dissertations. Thus, about 500 records have been made available
in the online mode.
New acquisitions mainly means new books, purchased by the OAB
for local researchers for an amount of
5000 euros in 2003.
Librarians still also take care of the many daily book loans,
train part-time students, update the national and the local online
catalogues, update the inventory database for books and journals,
assist local students and the public in general with their documentation
needs, supervise journal and book suppliers, manage journal
binding.
In the staff, Pietro Candelaresi and Marina Zuccoli from the Dept. of Astronomy of the Bologna University still work together with INAF personnel Monica Marra and with Katia Alboresi (INAF contractor).