Paris Campus

• ENGLISH LANGUAGE LIBRARIES
• FRENCH LIBRARIES

 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LIBRARIES

General Reading and Reference

 

THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS

http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/

10 rue du General Camou ( M° ECOLE MILITAIRE or ALMA MARCEAU)

75007 Paris Telephone: 01 53 59 12 60

Founded in 1920, The American Library in Paris is an endowed, subscription library operated on a non-profit  basis.
Collections : General adult fiction and non fiction; children’s books; periodicals; reference books; phono discs and cassettes.

Services Reference, Circulation, Photoduplication.

Hours Tuesday through Saturday -10:00 a.m – 7:00 p.m.

Closed Sundays, Mondays, French legal holidays, July 4th, Thanksgiving. August: reduced hours (see posted

schedule).

The Paris Study Center will pay for your membership to the American Library in Paris provided that we have approved your enrollment beforehand. To this end, you are invited to submit an Application for Use of the American Library to the Paris Study Center librarian. (No application will be accepted prior to the second week of the semester or within 2 weeks of the end of the semester). The American Library in Paris will not enroll you as a member without our authorization.

 

BRITISH COUNCIL LIBRARY

9 rue de Constantine (M° INVALIDES)

75007 ParisTelephone: 01 49 55 73 00

Opening Hours : Monday – Tuesday & Thursday – Friday11:00 -18:00 Hours.

Wednesday11:00 -19:00 Hours.

Saturday – Sundays Closed.

 

FRENCH LIBRARIES

 

BIBLIOTHEQUE PUBLIQUE D’INFORMATION

http://www.bpi.fr/en/index.html

Centre Georges Pompidou

2nd floor

Plateau Beaubourg

75004 Paris

M° Rambuteau, Hotel de Ville, Châtelet les Halles.

Open : Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00 – 22:00 Hours Saturday, Sunday 10:00 – 22:00 Hours

Closed Tuesday

Its open-stack collections, up-to-date books and periodicals, many in English, in all fields, along with generous hours of service, a large public service stall, inexpensive photocopying, make it a useful library. In addition to books, periodicals, slides and microfiches, there is a language laboratory (médiathèque) on the lower level of the library, and a room of new publications (sane d’actualité) on the ground floor of the Centre Pompidou. Please note that books and other publications cannot be checked out.

For information over the telephone call : 01 42 7816 48

BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE

http://www.bnf.fr/en/tools/lsp.site_map.html

 

Quai François-Mauriac

75706 Paris Cedex 13

M° Quai de la gare

 

Following the transfer of the printed and audiovisual collections from the Rue de Richelieu site, this reserved-access research library is now opened with 2000 reading units. The collections in these rooms, totalling 180,000 volumes, including 2,500 different periodicals have been built up through acquisitions and can be freely consulted. They are complemented by microform reproductions, digitized documents, audiovisuals, and multi-media recordings.

Two types of passes are available : a 20 F one-day pass is valid for the entire day, even if the holder temporarily leaves the library. Annual passes are valid from the date of issue and cost 100 F for students (students must show their Schiller identity card).

It is opened from Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m to 7 p.m and on Sundays from noon to 6p.m.

Books and publications cannot be checked out.

 

FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES (SCIENCES PO)

http://bibliotheque.sciences-po.fr/fr/index.html

30 rue Saint Guillaume

75007 Paris

M° Bac

Bus : 63, 68, 83, 84, 87, 94 Telephone: 01 45 49 50 50

Opening Hours : Monday to Friday 08:30 – 20:00 Hours. Saturday 09:00 -19:30 Hours.

Note : Annual closing in second half of July. Use requires an introduction from the Schiller International University Paris Study Center.

 

VILLE DE PARIS BIBLIOTHEQUES

http://www.paris.fr/loisirs/paris-loisirs/bibliotheques/p145

These are free neighborhood public libraries run by the city of Paris with at least one in each of the twenty arrondissements. Many of these local libraries are housed in attractive new or remodeled quarters with open-shelf collections of fiction and non-fiction including reference works and periodicals. Many also have a records collection. Only registered users may borrow books for home use. A card can usually be obtained by giving satisfactory proof of identity and residence.