Maurizio Vivarelli

Full professor of Bibliography and Library Science at the Dipartimento di Studi storici of the Università di Torino. The main themes of his research concern, published also in several journals, regard space and identity of public library (Un’idea di biblioteca, 2010; Lo spazio della biblioteca, 2013; A partire dallo spazio, 2016; The identity of the contemporary public library, 2016, with Margarita Pérez Pulido ); reading and social reading (Le reti della lettura, 2016, translated into Spanish with Las redes de la lectura, 2019, with Chiara Faggiolani; Social reading and the role of data in improving reading experiences of the magazine “DigitCult. Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures”, 2019, with Gianni Corino, Chiara Faggiolani, Lorenzo Verna; La lettura, 2018); evolution of bibliographic culture in a digital environment (Le dimensioni della bibliografia, 2013). He is part of the scientific committee of “AIB studi”, “Biblioteche oggi Trends”, “Culture del testo e del documento”, “JLIS.it”, “Biblioteche oggi”;
He is President of the master's degree course in Scienze del libro, del documento, del patrimonio culturale (Book, Document, Cultural heritage Sciences). He is Vice-President of DISH – Digital Scholarship for the Humanities, interdepartmental center of the Università di Torino.