Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (CSI)
The science & technology library is a department of the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie which is a national public establishment set up by means of a decree law in 1985. It is placed under the supervision of the Department in charge of books and reading at the Ministry of Culture and IST Department at the Ministry of Research.
Completely designed to enhance the reader’s autonomy, the library of CSI offers free access to an encyclopaedic and multimedia collections. The largest part is open with the loan. The very large set of collection is completed by services such as Health information center, Vocational
guidance center, Digital forum, Louis-Braille room.
The OPAC (ALEPH–Ex Libris) is integrated in an information system (Content server- Open Market) offering easy access to digital documents and services. Electronic documents, self training documents, films are freely accessible using the almost 600 multimedia stations uniformly spread out around the library.
Open every day, except for Mondays and January 1st, May 1st, December 25, the CSI Library greets almost 1 million visitors each year, young and old, executives and the unemployed or visitors just passing through without any distinction.
The library was involved in MESMUSES project (Metaphor for Sciences Museum), in 2001-2003.
Farther information is available on CSI website http://www.cite-sciences.fr/
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