The Alberto Di Giovanni Library is located on the second floor of the Columbus Centre, adjacent to the Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery. Bookshelves line the walls, holding hundreds of titles that include works of Italian literature, Italian Canadian writers, history and sociology texts with particular emphasis on immigration studies. Several sets of encyclopediae are available for reference. A children’s section has books in Italian and in English. The arts collection includes fine art books from the Renaissance Masters to contemporary artists. There are monographs on Italian crafts such as ceramics, scagliola, and Venetian glass. The music section contains biographies of composers as well as opera libretti. There is also an extensive selection of books on Italian cinema.

Rare facsimile copies of the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci can be studied in the Sala Leonardo section of the library, where large scale copies of Da Vinci’s paintings are displayed. A collection of rare editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy can be found in the Casa Dante room of the Carrier Gallery.

The Alberto Di Giovanni Library is not a public lending library, but the spacious reading room has tables and chairs for reading and studying.

It is open to the public Monday through Friday from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM, or by special arrangement with Centro Scuola.