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The Collection

The Children's Library


On-line catalogue

Documents displayed in the library represent only a small proportion of available material.
For a full range, please consult the catalogue or ask a librarian.

We are currently developing our collection in the following areas:
• Language learning
• Cinema/film studies
• French regions
• Comics for adults and for children
• Aspects of contemporary France
• Popular music

Books
20,000 volumes, mostly in French, relating to various aspects of French life and culture, including literature, art, history and geography, social and political sciences and children’s literature.

Videos and DVDs
With or without subtitles (check borrowing conditions).
• 950 Films: French cinema from classics to recent productions
• 75 cartoons and children’s films
• 650 documentary films on a diversity of topics relating to contemporary France (architecture and town planning, French society, the arts, sciences, medical research, filming the arts, the performing arts, 20th century writers, history, mathematics and many more)

Click here to view the list of available DVDs


CDs and cassettes
Talking books, classical, contemporary, popular music and jazz. 950 CDs of popular music from traditional chanson to current trends.

Reference
Dictionaries (language and specialist), encyclopaedias, travel guides and reference books on a wide range of subjects.

CD-ROMs
For consultation:
The entire searchable collection - le Monde sur CD-ROM and Libération, Encyclopaedia Universalis and many others.
For lending:
220 CD-ROMs for adults and children on gastronomy, history, French regions, games for fun, games for learning to speak, read, write - stories for the very young, etc.

Click here to view the list of available periodicals