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National Library of France: attendance deficit

Publication date 09/10/1997 From €100.00

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The BNF is still in the breaking-up phase: the library is less frequented than expected, some books have not yet arrived and the reading room on the garden level reserved for researchers still has to open. Collection of testimonials from various researchers on their first impressions of this place and commentary on different levels of the reading rooms, the cafeteria and the outside of the library.

BNF: the digital turning point

Publication date 28/04/2015 From €100.00

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Presentation of the Gallica site, allowing remote access to the collections of the BNF and the data center of the same library. Comment on images of a researcher in front of the Gallica site in a reading room, of the BNF data center as well as a scanning operation of a mansucrit. Interviews with a "gallicanaute", Julie DANIEL and Emmanuelle BERMES, scientific and technical assistant of services and networks.

BNF, 1995 : première visite de la plus belle encyclopédie du monde

Publication date 29/03/1995 From €100.00

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A la veille de son inauguration par François Mitterrand, le 30 mars 1995, visite de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France qui ouvrira ses portes au public deux ans plus tard. Présentation en images du site et interview de Jean Favier, président de la BNF et de Dominique Perrault, architecte.

BNF: Automatic document transport

Publication date 28/04/2015 From €100.00

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Presentation of the automatic book transport system (TAD) of the National Library of France on the occasion of the twenty years of its inauguration by François Mitterrand. To be communicated as quickly as possible to the readers of the library, the books are transported from the stores to the reading rooms on carrycots running for 7 km wide. Comment on images of the carrycots, the back room, the reading room and interview of a storekeeper, Frédéric LAGRANGE.

The architecture of the BNF: book conservation and the comfort of researchers

Publication date 27/04/2015 From €100.00

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Presentation of the architecture of the National Library of France on the occasion of the twenty years of its inauguration by François Mitterrand. Commentary on numerous exterior and interior plans of the building and interviews with Dominique PERRAULT, BNF architect, Bruno RACINE, president of the BNF, who explains that the space devoted to conservation will come to be short as well as a researcher describing the benefits of this library.

Controversy surrounding the BNF project

Publication date 09/10/1991 From €100.00

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Report on the controversy that blows over the project of the National Library of France of the architect Dominique Perrault. These include glass towers, which would not allow good conservation of works. In this context, Jacques Chirac asked François Mitterrand for a two-month moratorium on this new library. Comments on archival images, architectural drawings and models that alternate with interviews Dominique PERRAULT, architect of this project, on the storage conditions of books and Françoise de PANAFIEU, Paris city hall, which wants a temporary halt to the works.

BNF: The Rare Book Reserve

Publication date 01/05/2015 From €100.00

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Presentation of the reserve of rare books of the BNF, site François Mitterrand. This reserve, which preserves approximately 200,000 rare works, is only accessible under the authorization of the president of the room. Some examples of these books, such as the first tests of "Alcohols" by Apollinaire or "L'ami du peuple" by Marat, are revealed to us by Fabienne Le BARS, chief curator of the Rare Books Reserve.

Progress in the work of the BnF

Publication date 07/11/1993 From €100.00

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The work of the Very Large Library, future bnf, is progressing rapidly. The major work has just been completed. Comment on images of this huge project and brief interview of Dominique PERRAULT.

The BNF at night

Publication date 15/12/1996 From €100.00

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Presentation of the interior and exterior at night of the François Mitterrand Library which will be inaugurated Tuesday by President Chirac. Interview of the architect Dominique PERRAULT on the lighting he designed himself and on the atmosphere he wanted to create in this place.

BNF Works: Dominique Jamet indicted

Publication date 24/09/1992 From €100.00

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Dominique JAMET, President of the Public Institution of the Library of France has been charged with violating the law on the transparency and regularity of public contracts. Dominique JAMET allegedly favoured the BOUYGUES group by awarding it the market for the wholesale works of the TGB (Très Grande Bibliothèque). Comment on factual images and archives allowing us to go back to the previous polemics that stirred up this project, alternating with the interview of Dominique JAMET who answers the accusations.

Inauguration of the National Library of France by François Mitterrand

Publication date 30/03/1995 From €100.00

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Mr François MITTERRAND, President of the Republic, inaugurated this morning in Paris the new building of the National Library of France in the company of Mr Dominique PERRAULT, architect, Mr Jacques CHIRAC, Mayor of Paris, and of Messrs JUPPE, SEGUIN, LANG, TOUBON and JOSPIN, by the laying of a commemorative plaque and a visit to the building.

BNF: Digitization of sound archives

Publication date 09/12/2013 From €100.00

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Reportage The BNF will digitize all of its sound archives (78 rpm, 45 rpm and 33 rpm) in order to save them and make them accessible to as many people as possible. Comment on images of the Magasin-collection Charles Cros and its many gramophones, on the reserves keeping this precious collection of discs, close-ups on vinyl covers then images of people being consulted in the reading room. Interviews with Christophe GAUTHIER, Director of the Department of Audiovisual-BnF and Bruno RACINE, President of the BNF.

BNF: 1st review and start of computerization

Publication date 15/03/1998 From €100.00

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1st review after the opening of the BNF, site François Mitterrand: from 2000 entries per day the BNF has increased to nearly 9000 entries per day. The majority of users, 57% of whom are students, are satisfied. The NFB also has an online digital collection of approximately 100,000 books and is involved in the library computerized network project. Comment on exterior and interior images of the library, such as reading rooms, including the audiovisual department, as well as the cafeteria and interviews with readers and JeanPierre ANGREMY, President of the BNF and Daniel RENOULT, Director of the BNF’s ISD.

Project: Very Large Library

Publication date 12/04/1989 From €100.00

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Reportage Following the decision of François Mitterrand, the new library of France will be erected on the grounds of the old freight station of Tolbiac, in the 13th arrondissement. Images of this abandoned fields and an interview with Jack LANG at the end of the Council of Ministers, which details the ambitions of this project.

Relocation of works to BnF

Publication date 18/03/1998 From €100.00

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Report on the move of ten million books, 350,000 periodical titles, one million audiovisual documents from the Bibliothèque nationale de France from rue de Richelieu to the François Mitterrand library. Comment on factual images of the relocation of documents alternating with the interview Jean-Pierre ANGREMY, President of the BnF on the protection and security conditions implemented. .

Opening the bnf to researchers

Publication date 09/10/1998 From €100.00

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On October 9, the Bibliothèque nationale de France opened the garden level, a 2,000-seat space reserved for researchers. discovery of places with the researcher Jean Pierre ARMENGAUD, musicologist and university professor. Comment on the images of his career in the library, including his discovery of the audiovisual department’s holdings in front of a computer and with the help of a documentalist. He expressed his enthusiasm for being able to access these funds with the same ease.

Inauguration to the public of the national library of France

Publication date 17/12/1996 From €100.00

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In Paris, the president of the republic, Jacques CHIRAC, inaugurated the opening to the public of the national library of France, also named François Mitterrand library with a visit of the places and the viewing of a CD-ROMROM in situ. The president was accompanied by Danièle Mitterrand, Dominique Perrault, architect, Jean Favier, president of the BNF, and ministers Jacques Toubon, François Fillon, and Philippe Douste Blazy.

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