The Newsletter 56 Spring 2011
BULAC library

The Bibliothèque universitaire des Langues et civilisations (BULAC) (Languages and Civilisations University Library) is to open its doors in Autumn 2011 in the new premises of the languages and civilisations centre, in what is now referred to as “Paris’s new Latin Quarter”, in the 13th arrondissement. The BULAC is making this location its new home – close to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the new campus of the Université de Paris Diderot – with the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations).

The BULAC is a radically modern library which will be open to students and researchers, with seating for 360 persons in the research area, and more than 200,000 volumes freely available. The rooms can be booked for small groups as well as for individual use, and will be available for use by researchers 24 hours a day. The aim was to create a tool suited to the particular needs of people conducting research from France and other parts of the world, providing them with comprehensive documentation on languages and civilisations at a single location.

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