casalini.it

Casalini Libri is an international bibliographic agency. It supplies print and digital academic publications to libraries, with a specialisation in titles from Europe, and produces original catalogue records to RDA and BIBCO standards. Its Torrossa Digital Library provides e-books and e-journals to institutions and is described as covering over 1.4 million digital texts from more than 800 publishers.

Its customers are academic and research libraries and institutions, which it serves with collection development support, acquisitions and licensing of digital content. Publishers are offered promotion, distribution and hosting of digital content through Torrossa and its Bookstore, as well as subscription management and coordinated sales of print and electronic editions.

The company was founded in 1958 by Mario Casalini to promote Italian culture internationally and to provide academic libraries with bibliographic research and book supply. It works with the partner companies Erasmus, a bookseller in Amsterdam founded in 1934 with a Paris branch, and @Cult, a software house based in Rome. Its cataloguing team is described as 25 expert cataloguers.

Product: Print and digital publication supply, bibliographic cataloguing, collection development support and the Torrossa Digital Library.