The CRD-PVS library was created to provide a documentation service on technology, architecture and city issues in developing countries.

The library collects more than 6000 items, including papers, articles, thesis and reviews in Italian, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, catalogued according to emerging countries related-themes. All materials are available at CRD-PVS and can borrowed through a dedicated loan system. Items are at the disposal of students, professors, researchers, scholars, consultants, public and private bodies and anyone interested in approaching the addressed themes.

In 1993, CRD-PVS established an agreement with Regione Piemonte for the implementation of Agorà Piemonte, a Local Information System on Peace, Cooperation and International Solidarity (http://agora.regione.piemonte.it), a telematic archive joining over twenty documentation centers (such as OIL-BIT, CESMEO, CISV, CICSENE, CSA, MSP,…). This web boasts a documentary heritage of more than 69.000 titles.