Guerriera Guerrieri is a protagonist of the Italian cultural history of the last century, remembered for the intensity of her work and for the multiplicity of initiatives and actions that characterized her professional activity as a librarian and which still allow us today to remember her as a figure of absolute importance in Italy; among these, the development of cataloging rules, the cataloging of periodicals and the diffusion of books and reading, activities which he carried out with an aware-ness not only about librarianship, but also about cultural and bibliographical aspects. Guerrieri’s professional and personal life, however, was not simply dotted with satisfactions and successes, but the war, some family deaths, the instability of a residence, and envy and slander exacerbated by the fact that she was a capable and esteemed woman in her own environment, forced her to resist tenaciously until she was discharged from service. To the analysis and contextualization of the information already known, this essay adds the critical presentation of others documents from the numerous documents contained in his personal file preserved in Rome at the Central State Archive.
Guerriera Guerrieri è una indiscussa protagonista della storia culturale italiana del secolo scorso, ricordata per l’intensità del suo lavoro e per la molteplicità di iniziative e azioni che caratterizzarono la sua attività professionale di bibliotecaria e che ci permettono ancor oggi di ricordarla come una figura di assoluto rilievo in Italia; tra queste, l’elaborazione delle nor-me di catalogazione, la catalogazione dei periodici e la diffusione del libro e della lettura, attività che portò avanti con una consapevolezza non solo bibliotecaria e biblioteconomica, ma anche bibliografica e culturale. La vita professionale e personale della Guerrieri, però, non fu costellata semplicemente di soddisfazioni e successi, ma la guerra, alcuni lutti familiari, l’instabilità di una residenza, e invidie e calunnie acuite dal fatto che era una donna capace e stimata nel proprio ambiente, la costrinsero ad una tenace resistenza fino al momento del congedo dal servizio. Alla analisi e contestualizzazione delle informazioni già note questo saggio aggiunge la presentazione critica di altre ricavabili dai numerosi documenti contenuti nel suo fascicolo personale conservato a Roma presso l’Archivio Centrale dello Stato.
Sabba, F. (2024). Affanni e soddisfazioni di una bibliotecaria impegnata: documenti e notizie dal fascicolo personale di Guerriera Guerrieri conservato presso l’Archivio Centrale dello Stato. JLIS.IT, 15(3), 57-70 [10.36253/jlis.it-616].
Affanni e soddisfazioni di una bibliotecaria impegnata: documenti e notizie dal fascicolo personale di Guerriera Guerrieri conservato presso l’Archivio Centrale dello Stato
Sabba, Fiammetta
2024
Abstract
Guerriera Guerrieri is a protagonist of the Italian cultural history of the last century, remembered for the intensity of her work and for the multiplicity of initiatives and actions that characterized her professional activity as a librarian and which still allow us today to remember her as a figure of absolute importance in Italy; among these, the development of cataloging rules, the cataloging of periodicals and the diffusion of books and reading, activities which he carried out with an aware-ness not only about librarianship, but also about cultural and bibliographical aspects. Guerrieri’s professional and personal life, however, was not simply dotted with satisfactions and successes, but the war, some family deaths, the instability of a residence, and envy and slander exacerbated by the fact that she was a capable and esteemed woman in her own environment, forced her to resist tenaciously until she was discharged from service. To the analysis and contextualization of the information already known, this essay adds the critical presentation of others documents from the numerous documents contained in his personal file preserved in Rome at the Central State Archive.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.