Dei Remi Facemmo Ali: "Improper" Use of a Course Management System to Build a Digital Library and an Institutional Open Archive

The paper describes how and why the Library of the National Register of Municipal Clerks of the Central Directorate for the Autonomies of the Ministry of Interior has realized two databases within the Course Management System (CMS) Moodle: the Institutional Documents Archive and the Digital library, currently both available freely online. Even if a CMS is by no means the ideal tool to create this type of resources, the choice to use Moodle was made both because a system already in use by the institution for online courses and also because there were no funds available to adopt a specific s/w to implement the two repositories. The experiment of building the two databases, even if they don't fully respect the assumption of Open Access policies, has led to results more effective than expected and has adequately met the information needs of users.