The Biblioteca Lazzarini is the main public library, also called the Lazzerini Cultural and Documentation Institute, which was inaugurated on 24 November 2009. It is located on Via Puccetti #3 in the Santa Chiara district of Prato, region of Tuscany, Italy. The site also houses the Prato Textile Museum (Museo del Tessuto).
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The modern library and reading rooms were built in the building that once formed the Campolmi Factory, a 19th-century textile mill. The designs to make the present library and museum were by Marco Mattei.
The first collections (8000 volumes, mainly ecclesiastical) for a town library were donated by the monsignor Alessandro Lazzerini (1766–1836). This collection was initially held in the Biblioteca Roncioniana, however the construction of a communal libraty was delayed until 1978, when the first site at via del Ceppo Vecchio 7 were opened. This library was not inaugurated until 24 November 2009.[1]