Library

The library opens onto both the school’s hall and the outside, occupying a nave and a mezzanine. It offers alcoves for individual work and large tables for groups. Most of the documents are self-service.
A secretary and two full time library assistants, aided by student monitors, are responsible for all services to readers, the management and development of specialised collections in architecture and urban planning (books, periodicals, DVDs, maps, student works) and the physical management of the premises.
The library is a service in line with the School’s current events: bibliographic tables linked to the School’s conferences and the teachers’ courses. The library follows the news on its Facebook page and its ‘press panorama’: a selection of articles from Libération, Le Monde, Les Échos posted on a panel opposite the cafeteria. It regularly organises conversations about books in the presence of their authors, who are teachers at the School.

Practicalities
Access to the library

The library is primarily intended for students, teachers and researchers of the School of Architecture.

The staff

The staff of the media library is composed of : Estelle Dietrich, Véronique Dignac and Nathalie Polge (librarians), assisted by a dozen students and monitors.

The loan

6 books and 2 videos for 2 weeks.
Renewal is possible from your ArchiRès account, on site or by telephone on 01 60 95 84 38
The loan is reserved for students of the School of Architecture. Interlibrary loans are possible.
A box for returns is located in the school hall near the library door.

Reproduction of documents

Reproduction is only possible within the framework of the law.
It can be done with six A3 scanners (with a USB key)

Searching the collections

Books, journals and videos: the catalogue can be consulted on the ArchiRès portal.
To date, it contains more than 390,000 bibliographic records and 200 titles of specialised journals. It is fed by teams of documentation professionals from 25 specialised libraries, including our own.

Maps and multimedia

cartographic collection
multimedia collection

Partner libraries

The ArchiRès network: the works of students from other schools, which are not online, can be consulted through inter-library loans.
Students from the School of Architecture can register at the Georges Perec University Library.