Univ Bologna has Jacopo di Cocco who is doing the "CIB" centrro Interfacolta Biblioteche (?) inter-faculty library coordination for Bologna. He is alaso involved with the national collaboration.
"Can they collabrate, at least -- what -- exchange mail?"
Gian Piero Siroli is in PPE and researcher in Bologna, in CERN mostly over the summer. Responsible for Opal Online cluster.
Tim BL