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The Paolo Baffi Library
The Library owns approximately 112,000 volumes, with an average yearly increase of over 2,000 works.
To these must be added approximately 8,000 titles of periodicals on paper (current and no longer published), 1,150 electronic periodicals, 145 databases (online and on CD-Rom or DVD) and 12,000 reels of microfilm.
Approximately 1,800 of the works were published before 1831; they include incunabula, sixteenth-century publications, and a number of works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, amongst which some highly precious editions are to be found, such as the editio princeps of Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica (1494) and the first edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776).
The Library's nucleus consists of works on money, central banking, banks and finance, in their various theoretical, historical, legal and statistical dimensions. Especially on the subject of "money", contributions from all ages, countries, tendencies and schools are represented. The collection's interest extends to economics and social sciences, also encompassing history and mathematical and statistical science.
Particular emphasis is given to the 1500-1700 bullionist school of thought, to the English monetary debate, to the quantitative theory of money and other lines of development of monetary thought: the classics in England and the Cambridge, Austrian, Swedish and Keynesian schools. Equally important are theory and operating technique regarding banks, the stock exchange, foreign exchange and financial instruments. The statistical documentation boasts a wealth of primary sources, in addition to secondary ones.
While attention is paid to providing the most recent documentation, equal care is taken in acquiring and properly highlighting: ancient, rare and valuable works and editions; entire collections of books originally belonging to economists (Lionel Robbins), jurists (Francesco Calasso), scholars (Sergio Fenoaltea); supplementing material already present with important economics libraries reproduced on microfilm (the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library and the Seligman Collection).

The Law Library
The Library owns approximately 36,000 volumes, with an average yearly increase of 1,000 works. In addition there are approximately 500 periodicals on paper (current and no longer published) and 50 databases (online and on CD-Rom or DVD).
Over 100 of the works were published before 1831 and include works from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; particularly precious items are the 1584 edition of Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis and the 1572 edition of Baldo degli Ubaldi's Commentaria.
The Library's original nucleus centres on banking and financial law. Over time, the fields of learning have come to encompass administrative law, labour legislation and, starting in the 1990s, comparative law and economic legislation.
Alongside the print collection from the modern age, there are donations from important jurists (Gustavo Bonelli, General Counsel from 1919 to 1926, and Sebastiano Battiati, Head of the Legal Department from 1928 to 1936) and a large collection of studies in honour and in memory of personalities from the Italian legal world.