Resumen de Una vicenda che viene da lontano.
Cooperation between public libraries in Italy starts in the Seventies with the constitution of partnerships between libraries based in different towns. It had a fast development, mostly in northern regions of Italy and especially in Lombardy. The author underlines the limits these systems had for a long time: too little territorial width to obtain economies of scale, a lack of a well-defined legal structure, a scarceness of services. The article focuses then on the role of CSBNO, a consortium of 60 libraries which in the last years has been making a valid effort to overcome these limits and to open new opportunities.
