Archivitaly Access Watch #4

Archivitaly Access Watch #4

28 April – 3 May 2026 The Archivitaly Access Watch provides a weekly overview of archive access conditions in Italy, focusing exclusively on institutions currently affected by disruptions. This issue covers the week of 27 April 2026 and reflects notices relevant to...
How to Plan a One-Day Archive Visit in Italy

How to Plan a One-Day Archive Visit in Italy

How to Plan a One-Day Archive Visit in Italy A one-day archive visit in Italy cannot accommodate uncertainty at the level of access. Time, access conditions, and the internal logic of archival organisation rarely align with the expectations of the visiting researcher....
Archivitaly Access Watch #3

Archivitaly Access Watch #3

20–26 April 2026 The Archivitaly Access Watch is a weekly briefing on archive disruptions in Italy, designed to bring together the notices most likely to affect archival work in Italy: closures, reduced services, temporary exclusions from consultation, and other quiet...
Emailing Italian Archives: How to Write, What to Expect

Emailing Italian Archives: How to Write, What to Expect

Emailing Italian archives is often the first formal step in any research project. What may appear straightforward, however, is governed by a set of implicit conventions—institutional, practical, and cultural—that are not always immediately apparent to researchers...
Archivitaly Access Watch #2

Archivitaly Access Watch #2

3–19 April 2026 The Archivitaly Access Watch is a weekly briefing on archive disruptions in Italy, designed to bring together the notices most likely to affect archival work in Italy: closures, reduced services, temporary exclusions from consultation, and other quiet...
Archival Shelfmarks in Italy: A Practical Guide

Archival Shelfmarks in Italy: A Practical Guide

Archival shelfmarks in Italy are the essential references used to identify and retrieve documents within the Italian archival system. To read them correctly is to move with confidence through inventories, catalogues, and scholarly citations, without hesitation or...