Libraries and Archives
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2The Collège de France is comprised of sixteen libraries and an archival service across three sites, Place Marcelin-Berthelot, Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, and Rue d'Ulm.
3Head of the Direction des réseaux et partenariats documentaires (DRDP):
4Anne Chatellier. E-mail: anne.chatellier@college-de-france.fr.
5Library catalogue: bude.college-de-france.fr
6Digital Library and online catalogue of the archives:
salamandre.college-de-france.fr.
7The libraries SUDOC (ABES University Documentation System) http://www.sudoc.abes.fr.
General Library
8The General Library has collections related to the Collège de France’s past and present teaching and research activity. It contains documents concerning the present Chairs, the history of the institution, and the 800 professors who have successively held Collège de France Chairs since the institution was founded in 1530. It also contains reserve collections bequeathed by professors, such as the Marcel Bataillon and the Georges Dumézil libraries, as well as archives which can be consulted in the same building.
9E-mail: bibliotheque-generale@college-de-france.fr
Library of Mathematics
10E-mail: bibliotheque-generale@college-de-france.fr
Oriental libraries
Byzantine Library
11The Byzantine library, founded jointly in Paris in 1929 by the American scholar Thomas Whittemore and the Boston Byzantine Institute, holds a specialized collection on Byzantine civilization in general and more specifically on early Christian and Byzantine archaeology and art, Byzantine history and literature, the history of the Orthodox Church, and liturgy, art and history of the countries influenced by Byzantine civilization (Slavic countries, Georgia, Armenia, the Near East), as well as on Coptic art and literature. In addition, specialized collections in Byzantine epigraphy, numismatics and sigillography are developed within the collection of the Byzantin Institute.
12E-mail: bibliotheque-byzantine@college-de-france.fr
Library of Arab, Turkish and Islamic Studies
13The library of Arab and Islamic Studies contains the collections of Louis Massignon, Jean Sauvaget, Henri Laoust, Régis Blachère, Jacques Berque, and Claude Cahen. The books it holds therefore concern all the disciplines of Arab-Islamic civilization, from the origins of Islam to the contemporary era. A large proportion of the library’s books is in Arabic.
14E-mail: bibliotheque-eati@college-de-france.fr
Egyptology Library
15This library boasts a specialized collection of books on Pharaonic Egypt and Christian Egypt, hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic and Coptic philology, linguistics and palaeography. It also holds collections of the epigraphy, history and archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, and the portrayal of Pharaonic Egypt from the end of paganism to the present day. Finally, it holds the collections of scholarly archives constituted by and kept by Collège de France professors and French and foreign Egyptologists, including collections of photographic archives and videos.
16E.mail: bibliotheque-egyptologie@college-de-france.fr
Institute of the Ancient Near East
Library of Assyriology
17This library, founded in 1936 by Charles Fossey, contains a collection specializing in the history of the ancient Near East and specifically in cuneiform, Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian documentation. It also boasts a large collection concerning Anatolia and Hittite and Hurrite studies. The archaeology of the Near East is also well represented.
18E-mail: assyriologie@college-de-france.fr
Library of West Semitic Studies
19The library of the Institute of Semitic Studies holds a collection specializing in Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) linguistics, western and southern Semitic epigraphy, and the history and archaeology of the Near East, North Africa and Ethiopia. A large part of the collection concerns the study of the Old Testament and the Qumran manuscripts. The Institute of Semitic studies also houses the collections bequeathed by André Dupont-Sommer, Jean Starcky and Marcel Cohen, as well as the scientific archives of the latter two scholars.
20E-mail: etudessemitiques@college-de-france.fr
Library of Oriental Christianity
21This library comprises books, periodicals and off-prints collections concerning the study of New Testament literature and the history of Oriental Christianity. The main subjects covered are Judeo-Christianity, Gnosticism, Syrian-Egyptian monachism, and Manichaeism.
22E-mail: bibliotheque-ipoa.drpd@college-de-france.fr
Far East Institute
23Far East Libraries’ collections, consist of personal libraries bequeathed by Collège de France professors, and collections gathered by the Sorbonne’s oriental institutes before their transfer to the Collège de France in 1972, as well as donations, transfers (the collections of the former Centre of Chinese Studies in Peking, brought back to France after 1950), and major purchases since 1973. The Chinese catalogue contains the largest number of titles and includes rare books (shanben, with a published catalogue), the finest European collection of local monographs (difangzhi) and a rich collection of collectanea (congshu, with a published catalogue). The Japanese collection also comprises numerous collections on religion, literature and anthropology, as do the Korean and Tibetan collections. The Indian collection is devoted primarily to literature in Sanskrit and Indo-Aryan languages, history and archaeology. In addition, the Institute of Indian Studies library has computerized map and photograph collections covering the whole subcontinent.
24E-mail: bibliotheque-ieo.drpd@college-de-france.fr
Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies:
25bibliotheque-chine@college-de-france.fr
26Institute of Korean Studies:
27bibliotheque-coree@college-de-france.fr
28Institute of Indian Studies:
29bibliotheque-inde@college-de-france.fr
30Institute of Advanced Japanese Studies:
bibliotheque-japon@college-de-france.fr
Institute of Tibetan Studies:
31bibliotheque-tibet@college-de-france.fr
Claude Lévi-Strauss Library
(Social Anthropology Laboratory)
32The library, together with the laboratory, was founded in 1960, by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Its collections cover all fields of anthropology as well as related fields (sociology, history, pre-history and archaeology, linguistics, psychology and psychoanalysis, folk traditions and oral literature). It has been enriched over the years by the collections of Robert Hertz, Georges Devereux, Michel de Certeau, Isac Chiva, Ariane Deluz and Jean Pouillon, bringing together books, numerous offprints and archives. The library houses a paper copy of the Human Relations Area Files, a system of research, analysis, classification and filing of ethnographic data.
33E-mail: bibliotheque-las@college-de-france.fr
Library of the Asian Society
34A private institution, the library of the Asian Society is not part of the Far East Institute. It covers all fields dealing with Asia, it is devoted more to history and philology than to contemporary issues. It thus holds a fine collection of periodicals in Western and Asian languages (more than 1,800 titles). In addition, it has benefited from the bequests of entire libraries of considerable importance, primarily in the fields of Chinese studies (Édouard Chavannes, Henri Maspéro, Paul Demiéville), Tibetan studies (Jacques Bacot) and Indian and Southeast Asian studies.
35E-mail: biblio.soasiatique@gmail.com
36Research Institute for the History of Texts
37E-mail: irht@college-de-france.fr
38Greek Section:
39E-mail: grecque@irht.cnrs.fr
40Arab Section:
41E-mail: bibliotheque-iena@irht.cnrs.fr
42Archives
43The Archives are run by the Direction des réseaux et partenariats documentaires. They consist in the Faculty minutes since 1656, lecture series posters since the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, audiovisual and iconographic documents, and professors’ manuscripts, personal papers and scholarly documents. Access to documents is governed by the French Heritage Code. See below “The Launch of Salamandre” p. 82.
44E-mail: archives.drpd@college-de-france.fr
45https://salamandre.college-de-france.fr
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« Libraries and Archives », La lettre du Collège de France [En ligne], 8 | mars 2014, mis en ligne le 12 août 2015, consulté le 14 décembre 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/lettre-cdf/2059 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/lettre-cdf.2059
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