Biblioteca comunale

The library opens on Tuesday from 14.00 to 16.00. The Bergamo library network portal shows the same hours for the current week, with Monday closed, and gives as contact the council's phone number, 0345 95015.

For events the council refers to the Facebook and Instagram pages «oltrelabiblioteca»; the Pro Loco's 2026 summer booklet gives @bibliotecaoltreilcolle on Instagram and the email address oltrelabiblioteca@gmail.com.

The library uses the catalogue and rules of the Bergamo library network. You can join at any library in the provincial network, except those of the Bergamo city library system, with a valid identity document and your health card, the regional services card. Membership is free and, according to the network, has no expiry date and no age or residence limits: so it is open to holidaymakers too.

With the login for your personal area you search the catalogue and reserve: you choose the library where you want to collect the book and the request goes to the libraries that hold a copy. The MediaLibraryOnLine digital library, by contrast, is reserved for residents of the province of Bergamo.

The festival is organised by the library and takes music onto the mountains around the basin, the ones that give the MAGA its name: Menna, Arera, Grem and Alben. For the third edition, approved by the council executive on 29 May 2026 with the support of the Fondazione Cariplo, the programme had a wind orchestra on the Menna on 11 July, harp and cello on the Arera on 25 July, a jazz quartet on the Grem on 8 August and a string duo on the Alben on 15 August.

These are concerts you reach on foot: for the details of each edition, times and paths, the library gives information on its channels and at its email address.

ValParinART is the library's project approved by the council executive on 12 August 2026: an art competition with frescoes on private houses, whose owners gave their permission, a mural on the façade of the Zorzone museum, workshops and an award ceremony, with a contribution from the BIM consortium.

According to La Voce delle Valli the competition, born in 2006 and run three times until 2009, returned at the end of August 2026 after about twenty years, on the theme «Once upon a time»: seven new frescoes painted by students of the Manzù art high school in Bergamo, bringing the Zorzone total to 23, and the mural «Memorie di luce» on the façade of the museum.

In the Pro Loco's 2026 summer programme the library also appears with evenings and talks: on 26 June, in the library, the evening «I sentieri intorno a noi» with the CAI Val Serina, and on 4 July, at the SABA Ca' d'Arera hut, the event «Negli abissi dell'Arera» with the Gruppo Speleologico Bergamasco Le Nottole caving club.