Libraries

The Library, open to teachers, researchers, students, and scholars, has a reading room and two newspaper libraries, capable of accommodating 100 users.

The library covers an area of approximately 10,000 square meters and has around 850 seats, many of which directly overlook the windows and the view of the Dora Riparia river. It houses more than 650,000 volumes arranged on over 26 kilometers of shelves and specializes in law, economics, political and social sciences, and anthropology.

The Cuneo University Library has been open since April 2006, initially located in the former slaughterhouse in Piazza Torino, 3. Since March 30, 2009, it has been located in the new and more spacious Mater Amabilis building, where, since September 2012, it has also housed the Nursing Degree Course Library in the same premises.

The Library's collection (over 280,000 volumes, arranged on 8 km of shelves) covers the disciplines of economics, management, economic law, economic history, economic geography, social sciences, mathematics and statistics applied to economics, and commodity sciences.

The Ferdinando Rossi Federated Medical Library brings together the library services of the University of Turin's medical departments, integrating the services of the Molinette, Biologico, San Luigi, Rosmini - Professioni Sanitarie, Chiabrera, and Dental School campuses. 

The library is spread over four floors above ground, accessible by elevator, with a total of 95 seats.

The library focuses in particular on the disciplines of the Department of Earth Sciences and develops its collections in the fields of paleontology, stratigraphy, structural geology, geomorphology, mineralogy and crystallography, petrology, geochemistry and volcanology, depositology, and geophysics.

The book and document collection of the Plant Biology Department consists of approximately 35,000 books and pamphlets and 1,808 periodical collections, 62 of which are currently subscribed to.

The Library of the Department of Animal and Human Biology was created from the merger of the book collections of the university institutes that became part of the department in 1982: Comparative Anatomy, Anthropology, General Physiology, Histology and Embryology, Zoology, and Systematic Zoology. It consists of historical material and more recent collections.

In 2008, the Jung Room was set up with the aim of highlighting one of the Library's strengths, its rich collection of works by and dedicated to the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) and his psychological school of thought, Analytical Psychology.

Over the years, the library's collection has gradually expanded, becoming an archive available to scholars and establishing itself as the Library of the Institutes of Physics.

The library was founded in 1902 as the Library of the Royal Chemical Institute. In 1978, it became the center of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences; in 1985, it took its current name after Giacomo Ponzio.

The library is named after the internationally renowned chemist Icilio Guareschi, who held the chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Toxicology at the then School of Pharmacy in Turin for thirty-nine years (1879-1918). The library's historical collection preserves one of the most important collections in Italy on the history of chemistry and pharmacy, sources largely used by Icilio Guareschi in the course of his studies.

The library's collection consists of works from various institutions that have changed over time. The initial core is a book collection that the Computing Center of the University of Turin, founded in 1968, donated to the Institute of Information Sciences, established in 1971.

The Library was founded in 1984 when various institutes belonging to the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and the Faculty of Education were merged into a single department. Previously housed in the Humanities Building (“Palazzo Nuovo”), since September 2001 it has been located in the “Antiche Vetrerie Berruto” building.

The Library includes the Tabacco Collection, consisting of the professor's personal library (over 4,000 texts) and archival material (manuscripts, drafts of publications, correspondence) belonging to the professor, as well as the bequest of the private library of Prof. Giorgio Gullini (1923-2004), professor of Archaeology and History of Greek and Roman Art at the University of Turin, consisting of approximately 1,500 documents including books, periodicals, and pamphlets.

The Library of Art, Music, and Performing Arts - Department of Humanities is the new name, as of January 2012, of the Library of the Department of Artistic, Musical, and Performing Arts, a department that was deactivated at the end of 2011.  The Library was established with the creation of the Department itself in 1985. It merged the respective bibliographic collections of the various libraries and former institutes, in particular the Institute of Art of the Faculty of Arts, undoubtedly the oldest.

The Library was established in 1988, the year in which the Departments were created, bringing together the old Institutes by subject area. In this case, the collections of the Institute of Classical Philology and Linguistics were merged.
The core of the collection was then formed by the Library of the Institute of Classical Philology founded by Prof. Augusto Rostagni, which, after the transfer from Palazzo Campana to its current location, was merged with the Library of the Institute of Greek Literature.
In 1994, the addition of the Department of Ancient Civilization and Literature and Neo-Latin, with its collections from various classical libraries of the Faculty of Education, contributed to a significant increase in the library's holdings and the integration of critical editions.

The new home of the Philosophy and Education Sciences Library, funded by the Department's Department of Excellence grant and inaugurated in September 2021, brings together two previously separate collections: the Philosophy Library and the Education Sciences Library. To date, the merger has mainly involved the reading room and the newspaper library, but the new premises are also preparing to house all the collections currently stored in the two libraries' archives.

The library is divided into sections corresponding to the following subject areas: Jewish studies, Arabic studies, Indology, Sinology and Japanese studies.

The library also has a video library comprising over 300 titles on DVD, including Indian, Chinese and Japanese films, accompanied by a bibliographic section on Asian cinema.

The Library is organised with open shelves and a classification system that allows users to access the book collection and find their way around completely independently.

The Erik Peterson Library was established on 28 March 1962 as an independent university library. It houses the Erik Peterson Archive. Over time, the library collections have been expanded with the aim of providing suitable tools for the multidisciplinary study of different religious traditions. 

Oggi il patrimonio bibliografico della Biblioteca Storica di Ateneo "Arturo Graf" conta circa 200.000 libri e 520 testate di periodici.

The Library has 34 seats and a collection of 35,000 volumes covering the subjects taught at SAA.