This is a partial list of libraries in France.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
[edit]- Bibliothèque Clermont Université, Clermont-Ferrand[1]
- Bibliothèque du Patrimoine de Clermont Auvergne Métropole
- Bibliothèque municipale de Grenoble
- Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon[2]
- Bibliothèque Municipale de Riom
- Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 Library[3]
- Jean Monnet University Libraries, Saint-Étienne[3]
- Médiathèques de Saint-Étienne
- Université Grenoble Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
[edit]Brittany
[edit]- Brest municipal library[5]
- Les Champs Libres, Rennes
Centre-Val de Loire
[edit]- Chartres Municipal Library (see also: May 1944 Chartres Municipal Library Fire)
- Tours municipal library
Corsica
[edit]- Bibliothèque Fesch, Ajaccio
Grand Est
[edit]- Bibliothèque municipale de Colmar
- Château de Commercy
- Bibliothèque multimédia intercommunale, Épinal, Vosges
- Bibliothèque municipale de Nancy
- Carnegie Library of Reims
- Humanist Library of Sélestat
- National Academic Library (Strasbourg)[6]
Hauts-de-France
[edit]- Bibliothèque municipale de Douai
- Corbie Abbey, Picardy
- University of Lille libraries[3]
Île-de-France
[edit]Paris
[edit]Elsewhere
[edit]- Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Mondes library, Nanterre[7]
- Osmothèque library, Versailles
- University Gustave Eiffel Library , Marne-la-Vallée[3]
Normandy
[edit]Nouvelle-Aquitaine
[edit]- Bibliothèque de Saint-Jean-d'Illac, Gironde[8]
- Bordeaux municipal library
- Pierre-Fanlac Media Library, Périgueux
- University of Poitiers Library[3]
Occitania
[edit]- Carré d'Art, Nîmes
- Bibliothèques de Toulouse
- Médiathèque José Cabanis, Toulouse
- Séguier library, Nîmes, 18th c.[9]
- Bibliothèque Bernheim , Nouméa, New Caledonia
- Bibliothèque Franconie , Cayenne, French Guiana
- Schœlcher library, Fort-de-France, Martinique
Pays de la Loire
[edit]Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
[edit]- Aix-Marseille University Library[3]
- Alcazar (Marseille)
- Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, Carpentras
- Bibliothèque Méjanes, Aix-en-Provence
- Cinémémoire, Amateur Film Library of Marseille[1]
See also
[edit]- Copyright law of France
- Library associations in France
- List of archives in France
- Mass media in France
- Open access in France
- Legal deposit in France (in French)
- Libraries in France (in French)
- Classified municipal libraries in France (in French)
- University libraries in France (in French)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Institutions: France", europeana.eu, Netherlands: Europeana Foundation, retrieved 2026-02-25
- ^ "IFLA Members" (PDF), ifla.org, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2026-01-06
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "List of LIBER Libraries", libereurope.eu, Netherlands: Association of European Research Libraries/LIBER Europe, retrieved 2026-02-25
- ^ "Bibliothèques mathématiques / Mathematical librairies", cnrs.fr (in French), Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, retrieved 2026-02-25
- ^ "Catalogue collectif de France: Bibliothèques", ccfr.bnf.fr (in French), Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, retrieved 2026-02-25
- ^ "EBLIDA Members", eblida.org, Netherlands: European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations, retrieved 2026-02-25
- ^ Les membres (in French), Fédération et ressources sur l’Antiquité (FRANTIQ), archived from the original on 2020-04-06 – via Wayback Machine
- ^ "Réseau CBPT: Gironde" [CBPT Network: Gironde], uncbpt.fr (in French), Union Nationale Culture et Bibliothèque pour Tous (UNCBPT), archived from the original on 2020-02-19 – via Wayback Machine
- ^ Laurence Brockliss (2023). "Sharing Books in Eighteenth-Century Languedoc: The Library of Jean-François Séguier". Private Libraries and Their Documentation, 1665–1830. Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004542969_006.
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Edwards (1859), "Provincial Libraries of France", Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy, vol. 2, London: Trübner & Co., p. 315+ – via HathiTrust
- "Libraries: France", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 14 (14th ed.), London, 1929, pp. 10–13 – via HathiTrust
}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Allen Kent; et al., eds. (1962). "Libraries in France". Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Vol. 9. Marcel Dekker. p. 37+. ISBN 978-0-8247-2023-0 – via Internet Archive.
}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - John F. Camp (1981). "Libraries and the Organization of Universities in France, 1789-1881". Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 51. JSTOR 4307340.
- Martine Poulain (1996). "Philanthropy, Benefaction, and Libraries in France, 1916-1929". Libraries & Culture. 31. US. JSTOR 25548447.
- Odile Cramard; Kevin McLoughlin (2011). "The Long Development of Prison Libraries in France". Library Trends. 59. US. doi:10.1353/lib.2011.0007.
- Anita Breckbill; Carole Goebes (2007). "Music Circulating Libraries in France: An Overview and a Preliminary List". Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. 63. US: Music Library Association – via University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
- John D. McDonald; Michael Levine-Clark, eds. (2017), "France: Archives, Museums and Libraries", Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (4th ed.), US: CRC Press, p. 1589+
- Bulletin des bibliothèques de France [Bulletin of French Libraries] (in French), Villeurbanne: École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (Enssib), ISSN 1292-8399, 1956–present
- André Vernet; Claude Jolly, eds. (1988–1992), Histoire des bibliotheques francaises (in French), Paris: Promodis-Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, OCLC 20935085
}: CS1 maint: date format (link). See also: 2nd edition, 2008–2009. - Françoise Lucchini; et al. (2024), Atlas des bibliothèques territoriales (in French), Paris: Direction de l’information légale et administrative (DILA), ISBN 978-2-11-172559-1. (Summary of French libraries by region)
External links
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- "Library Map of the World: France", ifla.org, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- Réseau National des Bibliothèques de Mathématiques (RNBM) [French national network of mathematics libraries] (in French), est.2004