Chiara Cauzzi

Chiara Cauzzi is a researcher and lecturer affiliated with the University of Italian Switzerland (USI) and the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society. She co-leads the course "Principles of Digital Library Science" and serves as a research collaborator for the DigitChart project at the Institute of Law (IDUSI), focusing on digital archives of community charters. She also coordinates the "Inclusive/Exclusionary Images" working group for USI's Faculty of Communication.

Education:

• Bachelor's in Literary Sciences, University of Pavia
• Master's in Archival, Documentary, and Library Sciences (2018-2019), University of Pavia
• Specialization in Vatican School of Library Science (2018-2019), Vatican Apostolic Library
• First-level Master's in Text Informatics (2022-2023), University of Siena

Her research spans digital libraries, manuscript studies, cataloging history, and metadata standards. She has contributed to projects like CHIGC (medieval manuscripts) and ERASMUS+ ANTIDOTE (metadata training). Her work intersects library science, archival theory, and humanistic computing.

Scientific Awards and Collaborations:

• Erasmus+ Staff Training Week (2019)
• Member of BAD-SI (Association of Librarians, Archivists, and Documentalists of Italian-speaking Switzerland)
• Editor for Fogli magazine (Salita dei Frati Library Association, Lugano)
• Collaborations with Biblioteca Ambrosiana, BEIC Foundation, and the Vatican Apostolic Library

As a lecturer at the University of Pavia (Cremona campus) since 2017, she teaches cataloging and bibliographic research. She also contributes to professional training programs in information management and serves on committees for inclusion initiatives in librarianship.