I would think if the Vatican itself heavily uses the Internet for searches, and as well a topic they might be researching, it should be good enough for it's members wouldn't you think? Much of the Vatican's library is accessible from the Internet for study etc. You might try to utilize that...very interesting reads once you wade thru the clutter.
” Vatican’s library is accessible from the Internet for study etc. You might try to utilize that...very interesting reads once you wade thru the clutter.”
ROTFL!
Oh, if you only knew how funny that is!
criteria for using the Vatican library
Admission Criteria
PrintThe Library is open to:
1.researchers and scholars with appropriate qualifications and/or relevant scientific publications;
2.teachers and researchers at Universities and other institutes of Higher Education;
3.graduate students (laureati) who are pursuing research for a doctoral dissertation;
4.in exceptional cases, undergraduate students who can demonstrate that they need to consult material which is available only at the Vatican Library.
5.it is not open to High School students, nor, as a rule, to undergraduate University students.
Required Documents
All readers applying for their first reader’s pass must produce the following:
1.a valid identification document, which will be left at the Police Office at the Sant’Anna entrance to the Vatican City State;
2.a reference letter or a valid document proving appropriate academic qualifications;
3.for students, a Letter of Surety, printed on institutional letterhead and signed by their dissertation supervisor.
The Reader’s Ticket
The reader’s pass allows access to the Library.
The annual pass is valid from the day it is issued until the following annual closing of the Library. The short-term pass is valid for a fixed number of days, as determined by the Admissions Office.
In any case, access is granted only until May 31 for undergraduate students and until June 15 for graduate students.
The reader’s pass allows consultation of printed books only; specific authorization is needed for the consultation of manuscripts. The pass is strictly personal and non-transferable; it replaces the reader’s identification document while he or she is in the Library.
By accepting the reader’s pass and signing the form indicating their personal details in the Admissions Office, readers agree to observe the Library’s Rules and Regulations.
In case of loss or theft, readers are required to advise the Library’s Admissions Office as soon as possible, and to present a copy of the report filed with the competent authorities.
“Much of the Vatican’s library is accessible from the Internet for study etc. You might try to utilize that...very interesting reads once you wade thru the clutter.”
Really? This is from 2010. ~And it isn’t there yet.
“Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials.5389448 abstract
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Mintzer, F. C.; Boyle, L. E.; Cazes, A. N.; Christian, B. S.; Cox, S. C.; Giordano, F. P.; Gladney, H. M.; Lee, J. C.; Kelmanson, M. L.; Lirani, A. C.; Magerlein, K. A.; Pavani, A. M. B.; Schiattarella, F.;
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P. O. Bar 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA
This paper appears in: IBM Journal of Research and Development
Issue Date: March 1996
Volume: 40 Issue:2
On page(s): 139 - 162
ISSN: 0018-8646
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1147/rd.402.0139
Date of Current Version: 06 April 2010
Sponsored by: IBM
Abstract
The Vatican Library is an extraordinary repository of rare books and manuscripts. Among its 150,000 manuscripts are early copies of works by Aristotle, Dante, Euclid, Homer, and Virgil. Yet today access to the Library is limited. Because of the time and cost required to travel to Rome, only some 2000 scholars can afford to visit the Library each year.
Through the Vatican Library Project, we are exploring the practicality of providing digital library services that extend access to portions of the Library’s collections to scholars worldwide, as an early example of providing digital library services that extend and complement traditional library services.
A core goal of the project is to provide access via the Internet to some of the Library’s most valuable manuscripts, printed books, and other sources to a scholarly community around the world.
A multinational, multidisciplinary team is addressing the technical challenges raised by that goal, including • Development of a multiserver system suitable for providing information to scholars worldwide. • Capture of images of the materials with faithful color and sufficient detail to support scholarly study. Protection of the on-line materials, especially images, from misappropriation. • Development of tools to enable scholars to locate desired materials. • Development of tools to enable scholars to scrutinize images of manuscripts.
• In this paper, we provide an overview of the project, a description of the system being developed to satisfy its needs, and a discussion of how the technical challenges are being addressed.
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I hope you read Latin, Greek, Italian because a lot of the Library site is en Italia, French and Archaic English.
Why on EARTH would the Vatican scour the internet for research when it has all the documents, letters, apostalic visits and current information too, from Bishops ad infinitum which deal with all things religious?