Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon

The Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon is the city library of Lyon. Its origins date back to the 16th century. With a population of around 5 million volumes (of which 1.3 million classified as national heritage ) it is the largest library in France after the Paris National Library.

History

1527 gave the city council, the college of Trinity ( Trinity) (now high school amperes) the Jesuits. A private library room did not exist, the books were distributed to the 17th century over the entire building. The donation of the library of the Archbishop of Lyon, Amille de Neufville de Villeroy, in 1693, the portfolio grew by over 5,000 prints and manuscripts. The library was subject to exceptions with the professors, where visitors revealing insight was granted.

1731 opened the first public library in the old town of Lyon ( Vieux Lyon district ) every Monday and Friday, was a reference library and specializes in jurisprudence.

1765, three years after the expulsion of the Jesuits from France, the City Council decided to combine the two libraries in the College of Trinite, to be managed by the oratorios and make publicly available the total of 40,000 works.

The turmoil of the Revolution led to the closure of the library, for occupation by armed troops and thefts in favor of the Paris collections. Together with precarious preservation conditions, this led to heavy Bestandsdezimierungen and damage.

1803, the management of the library of the city administration has been transferred with the condition to pay a librarian and deploy an operating budget. Antoine Delandine, first librarian, began as the cataloging, which lasted about his term of office beyond.

Founded in 1831, the mayor of Lyon a second city library that the arts and sciences devoted himself - in the collections of the Academy of Lyon and of various scientific societies were pooled. But soon the locations ranged from no more and the visitors complained that the stocks were divided.

1911, the emptied due to the separation of church and state palace was Saint -Jean ( cf. Saint-Jean cathedral ) is empty and the Municipal Library, uniting all stocks, pulled a.

As of 1959, the book circles with public readings and libraries for adults and children in each of the nine districts of Lyon developed.

1972 left the National Library, the Palais Saint- Jean, to the left bank of the Rhone, in the district of de la Part -Dieu to refer quarters; a subset of the features was automated in 1986 expanded by a new system: buying, cataloging, document search and transport have been automated. The Catalogue of the district libraries was made increasingly accessible.

1990 Municipale with 14 external extensions and three Bibliobussen the Bibliothèque become one of the most important libraries in Europe.

In 1999, the library loaned the Jesuits collections of the Library of Fontaines with about 500,000 volumes and iconography from the 15th century to the present day. Simultaneously, a groundbreaking new operating system was put into operation, which has been the increasing needs: around 50,000 new acquisitions per year, 5,000 current subscriptions to newspapers and magazines and above all 2.8 million loans per year.

With a variety of cultural events and readings, above all by the great science stocks that reach back to the beginnings of the art of printing, the library of Lyon one of the largest and most modern in Europe, in addition to its main function as a municipal library, a knowledge center, due to the Jesuits stocks and bibliophile treasures of cultural and historical significance.