Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations
Coordinates: 48°49′37.8″N 2°22′32.5″E / 48.827167°N 2.375694°E
The Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) is a major academic library located in Paris Rive Gauche and which has been open to the public since its 2011 opening. The library has a scope that includes all languages and civilisations that are not those of the Western World.[1][2][3][4][5]. It provides more than one million documents written in all languages[6], formed from the former collections of more than 20 libraries.[7]
Building
The construction of the building began in summer 2008. The architect is Yves Lion[8]. The library has five floors within the building, the public space is on three floors with 910 seats [9].
The building is under the responsibility of the region Île-de-France which also provided two third of the financing, the French State provided the rest. The financing was about 80 millions euros)[10].
The operating cost is about 2.5 millions euros per year.
Status
The BULAC is legally a fr:groupement d'intérêt public made of the following institutions :
- The French State (fr:ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche) ;
- Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) ;
- École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) ;
- School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) ;
- École française d'Extrême-Orient ;
- Pantheon-Sorbonne University ;
- University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle ;
- Paris-Sorbonne University ;
- Paris Diderot University ;
- centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
The BULAC is administrated by a general assembly where the ministry has four representatives (two interested in higher education, two interested in research). The other preceding institutions have one representative each [11]. A fr:conseil scientifique made of french and foreign professors and researchers defines the general Collection Management Policy[12].
- Direction
BULAC direction is made of a director, a vice-director and a scientific director[13].
- Director: Marie-Lise Tsagouria
- Vice-director: Jean-François Chanal
- Scientific director: Benjamin Guichard who took over from Francis Richard in 2015
References
- ↑ "L'essentiel" (in French). Official website of the BULAC.
- ↑ "Un nouveau pôle des langues et civilisations tout proche de la BnF" (in French). École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques.
- ↑ "BULAC Library two years after opening". University of Helsinki.
- ↑ "Bibliothèque universitaire des Langues et Civilisations" (in French). La Chancellerie des universités de Paris.
- ↑ Pauline (12 April 2012). "BULAC (Bibliothèque Universitaire des langues et civilisations)". Evous (in French). Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ↑ "350 langues, 80 alphabets dans une seule bibliothèque… Défis et enjeux" (in French). The International Federation of Library Associations.
- ↑ Lo, Patrick; KW Chiu, Dickson; Cho, Allan (3 April 2017). Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections: One Belt, One Road, and Beyond. Chandos Publishing. p. 209. ISBN 9780081021460.
- ↑ "Le Pôle des langues et civilisations" (in French). Official website of the BULAC.
- ↑ "Le guide du lecteur" (PDF) (in French). Official website of the BULAC.
- ↑ "Le projet BULAC en chiffre" (PDF) (in French). Official website of the BULAC.
- ↑ "L'assemblée général" (in French). Official website of the BULAC.
- ↑ "Le conseil scientifique" (in French). Official website of the BULAC.
- ↑ "Organigramme de la BULAC" (PDF) (in French). Official website of the BULAC.
External links
- Official website (in French)
- Catalog (in French)