The library
Founded in 1846, the École Nationale des Chartes Library enjoys a wide reputation for its wealth of material in French history and the sciences ancillary to history (palaeography, diplomacy, philology, history of books, history of law, archaeology, etc.).
Since 2016, the library has been housed in the renovated Quadrilatère Richelieu, providing readers with ideal conditions for study and research.
The library is primarily intended for pupils, students and teacher-researchers at the École Nationale des Chartes and PSL University, but it is also open to other users, particularly researchers in the human and social sciences and conservation professionals.
The Library's warehouse, 12, rue des Petits-Champs © ENC - cl. Didier Plowy
The library offers readers
- A comfortable place for study and research
- A broad range of resources: research works and manuals, journals, old printed books, offprints, prints, electronic resources, etc.
- Most of the collections are open to the public and can be borrowed.
- For the School's students and doctoral candidates: courses in documentary research and support for the submission and circulation of theses and dissertations
- For teachers: provision of books and lecture room for document-based classes
- For researchers, support in submitting their publications to the HAL-ENC portal
- Promotion of the School's history, collections and archives through the digital library
News
Contemplez l’œuvre installée à la bibliothèque dans le cadre du 1 % artistique
News
Published on 09/03/2021
La région Île-de-France soutient le projet de valorisation des thèses d’École : ThENC@
News
Published on 08/12/2020
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Visit the Library
Visits can be organised on request.
Reading room on level 0 of the library © Cl. Jean-Christophe Ballot
Contact :
bibliotheque @ chartes.psl.eu
Virtual Visit
The library was created by the Order of 31 December 1846 and was housed in one of the two rooms allocated to the School in the Hôtel de Soubise.
It moved with the School in 1897 to 19, rue de la Sorbonne, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The library then occupied the second (reading room, history room), third (‘horseshoe room’) and fourth (offices, warehouse in the attic) floors of the School.
Since 2017, the library has been located at 12 rue des Petits-Champs in the renovated Richelieu quadrilateral, alongside the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art.
Partners and Networks
The library is involved in several documentary cooperation networks.
Privileged Partners of the Library
- Libraries and museums of the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)
- Richelieu - libraries, museum, galleries area with:
- Humathèque Condorcet
- The Archives Nationales
National networks
- ABES: Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education)
- ACEF: Association des clients d'Ex libris France (Association of Ex Libris French customers)
- ADBU: Association Française des Directeurs et Personnels de Direction des Bibliothèques Universitaires et de la Documentation (Association of University Library and Documentation Managers and Staff)
- HAL Partners' Assembly
- CTLes: Centre Technique du Livre de l'Enseignement Supérieur (Technical Centre for Higher Education Books)
- CollEX: the library's collections have been awarded the national CollEx label (Collections of Excellence for Research), under the name ‘Sources et méthodes pour l'histoire de France’ (Sources and Methods for the History of France).
- Couperin: Unified consortium of academic and research institutions for access to digital publications
- KohaLa: association of French and French-speaking players and users of the Koha open-source library management software
- Omeka.fr: association of French-speaking Omeka users
- Shared conservation plan for medieval history