Travelling to New Knowledge Perspectives. Digital Expansions for the Interactive Fruition of Books and Libraries.

Recent scenarios leave no doubt that DT challenges the relationship of citizens with heritage, and the last two post-pandemic years have increased this situation. In this transition, cultural institutions, such as academic and educational contexts, have the central role of mediators in addressing the DT challenges learning to manage and promote a heritage that, already today, the contamination between analogue and digitally made hyper-complex. Active and participatory users interaction, the possibility to expand the experience of heritage turning analogue on phygital dimension that is focused on the users’ point of view are the prerequisites for designing and developing solutions, which impact citizens (young people seem to be there...) and re-activate their interest. The reflection and research in the LIS sector presented in this paper started with these prerequisites, designing and proposing a different conceptual and practical-applicative approach for tackling this challenge, even re-activating the interest of users for heritage and making them inter-actors of new user-centred phygital solutions. This approach can involve them directly and consciously in re-discovering the richness and multiformity of heritage, be it analogue or digital.