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Notes

¹ The conference was under the auspices of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and three universities: LUMSA (Rome), Dipartimento di Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche at La Sapienza—University of Rome, and the Dipartimento di Studi umanistici of the University of Pavia. They contributed to the event both by offering scientific support and by providing venues for meetings and workshops. Financial support was provided by The Goethe Institut, the United States Embassy to Italy, and OCLC.

² Programme committee members: Paul Gabriele Weston (coordinator), Agnese Cargini, Flavia Cancedda, Agnese Galeffi, Antonio Manfredi, Andrea Marchitelli, and Giuseppina Vullo.

³ Among others, the conference “The Value of Cataloguing” organized by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in 2012 and the publication of Catalogue 2.0: The Future of the Library Catalogue (Sally Chambers ed.).

⁴ Nicholas Murray Butler, “The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,” International Conciliation 75 (February 1914): 3–14.

⁵ The presentations and abstract are available at the conference website hosted by Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, http://www.aib.it/attivita/congressi/fsr-2014/2013/38189-fsr-programme/ (accessed January 25, 2015).

⁶ “Carlo Revelli—Testimony,” http://www.aib.it/attivita/congressi/fsr-2014/2014/41403-carlo-revelli-testimony/ (accessed January 25, 2015).

⁷ David Bade, “The International Observer: Carlo Revelli on the (Non)Autonomy of Cataloging,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 48, no. 8 (2010): 743–756.

⁸ “Dorothy McGarry—Testimony,” http://www.aib.it/attivita/congressi/fsr-2014/2014/41465-mcgarry-testimony/ (accessed January 25, 2015).

⁹ From the fsr2014.org web page the tweet #FSR2014 is accessible. Other comments and photographs are available on the Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/fsr2014.org.

¹⁰ More information about the issues raised at FSR2014 can be found at: Roberto Raieli, “Instant, Cultural and Infinite: lo sviluppo dei sistemi di ricerca e scoperta verso le qualità del pensiero (note da FSR 2014),” AibStudi 54, no. 1 (2014): 95–114, http://aibstudi.aib.it/article/view/9991/9417 (accessed January 25, 2015); Giuseppina Vullo, “‘Faster, Smarter and Richer. Reshaping the Library Catalogue.” La conferenza internazionale FSR in Vaticano,” DigItalia 1 (2014): 112–120, http://digitalia.sbn.it/article/view/1059/689 (accessed January 25, 2015); Giuseppina Vullo, “Introduction to FSR 2014 Special Issue,” Jlis 5, no. 2 (2014): 1–4, http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/10138/9432 (accessed January 25, 2015); Tiziana Rondinella, “Rome, Italy: Cataloguing and Data Today,” SCATNews 41 (2014): 19–20, http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/scatn/scat-news-41.pdf (accessed January 25, 2015); Verena Schaffner, “Bericht zur internationalen Konferenz ‘Faster, smarter and richer. Reshaping the library catalogue—FRS 2014’ (Rom, 27-28. Februar 2014),” Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen & Bibliothekare 67, no. 2 (2014): 308–312, http://eprints.rclis.org/23891/1/v%C3%B6b-mitteilungen_67%20%282014%29%202_bericht_schaffner_fsr%202014.pdf (accessed January 25, 2015).