FUIS Convegno in Rome Examines Library Lending Data and Authors' Rights Across Europe

Fatti principali

• The conference "Il Prestito Bibliotecario in Italia, in Europa, nel Mondo" takes place in Rome on 23 and 24 September 2026.
• It is organized by the Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori (FUIS) with Federintermedia.
• The 23 September session runs 16:00–18:30 at the Teatro degli Scrittori, Lungotevere dei Mellini 33/A.
• The 24 September session runs 10:00–13:00 and 15:00–18:00 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni Auditorium, Via Milano 9/A.
• Research titled "La lettura in biblioteca anni 2024 e 2025" was entrusted to the Fondazione Bellonci and directed by Prof. Giovanni Solimine of La Sapienza Università di Roma.
• The study surveyed 7,000 libraries and 101 library consortia, recording 20,000,000 loans for 2024 and 20,000,000 for 2025.
• Italy's Ministero della Cultura excluded SIAE from collecting and individually attributing lending proceeds, providing instead about 3,500,000 euros for roughly 12,000 libraries.
• Comparable public funds are 17,250,000 euros for 4,570 libraries in Spain, 12,710,000 euros for 3,400 libraries in France, and 9,540,000 euros for 6,313 libraries in Germany.
• 37 countries worldwide have enacted library lending legislation, but none has a system for precisely identifying authors entitled to proceeds.
• The conference is in Italian with simultaneous translation into French, Spanish, and English, and is streamed on FUIS Facebook.