Admission criteria of libraries in the 19th century
Time: 1865
Place: Florence (+ Vienna & Paris)
What were the normal (if there were such) admission criteria of the 19th century scientific/scholarly libraries? I'm mostly interested in the National Library of Florence, but information on other libraries located in Italy, Austria and France is more than welcome, too. Did the visitor have to have a degree from a university, for example? How about recommendation letters? Were women allowed to use these libraries?
I've searched with terms "national library Florence history visitors", "national library Florence history women" and other variations of those terms, also in Italian, but all I can find is information on women's studies and some general history of the library.
Thank you very much in advance!
Place: Florence (+ Vienna & Paris)
What were the normal (if there were such) admission criteria of the 19th century scientific/scholarly libraries? I'm mostly interested in the National Library of Florence, but information on other libraries located in Italy, Austria and France is more than welcome, too. Did the visitor have to have a degree from a university, for example? How about recommendation letters? Were women allowed to use these libraries?
I've searched with terms "national library Florence history visitors", "national library Florence history women" and other variations of those terms, also in Italian, but all I can find is information on women's studies and some general history of the library.
Thank you very much in advance!