Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations


The Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations 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. It provides more than one million documents written in all languages, formed from the former collections of more than 20 libraries.

Building

The construction of the building began in summer 2008. The architect is Yves Lion. The library has five floors within the building, the public space is on three floors with 910 seats.
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 million euros.
The operating cost is about 2.5 million euros per year.

Status

The BULAC is legally a made of the following institutions :
The BULAC is administrated by a general assembly where the ministry has four representatives. The other preceding institutions have one representative each. A made of French and foreign professors and researchers defines the general Collection Management Policy.
; Direction
BULAC direction is made of a director, a vice-director and a scientific director.