Museo Galileo library
In 2011 the library made about 1,100 new acquisitions; among them circa 450 volumes, pamphlets and minor materials which were received as gifts or exchanges. Out of the approximately 650 books purchased, 223 were published in 2011, 243 in 2010, 87 in 2009, and so on. As for the countries of publication, 199 were published in Italy, 112 in the United States, 103 in the United Kingdom, 84 in France, 50 in Germany, 40 in Spain and so on. The language of most of the texts is English (261), 192 are in Italian, 103 in French, 39 in Spanish, 35 in German and so on. All of the documents acquired in 2011 have already been catalogued (subject indexing, index transcription and cataloguing of single essays in miscellaneous volumes included). They can be researched in the library's online catalogue. The articles published in the current issues of the history of science Italian periodicals and of some foreign reviews have also been catalogued.
Italian bibliography for the history of science
In 2011 the Italian bibliography for the history of science acquired about 4,000 bibliographic records related to monographs, essays in miscellaneous volumes, journal articles and book reviews. About 1,650 records refer to documents owned by Museo Galileo's library while the others pertain to documents reviewed at the National central library in Florence (BNCF) or at the library of the Scuola normale superiore in Pisa (BSNS).
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International Galilean bibliography
In 2011 the International Galilean bibliography acquired about 700 bibliographic records related to monographs, essays in miscellaneous volumes, journal articles and book reviews. About 500 of these records refer to documents owned by Museo Galileo's library while the other records pertain to documents from major Florentine and Italian libraries.