Media library Andre-Malraux de Lisieux - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Inaugurated on June 21st, 2002, the Media library Andre Malraux , the last born of the cultural centres of the Town of Lisieux , is a Public library offering to the consultation or the loan approximately: 100000 documents (books, periodicals, sound records, videograms, cédéroms, resources electronic). It has moreover an auditorium of 70 places where conferences and projections are organized.

History

In 1833, on the initiative of the mayor, Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu, the municipal council of Lisieux decided the creation of a Public library. Lisieux counted then: 12000 inhabitants. The first funds voted by the council were devoted to the installation of a room and the acquisition of works. The library was opened with the beginning of the year 1837. It occupied two small contiguous parts in the room of the deliberations of the Town hall. Mr. Samson, professor with the college, was the librarian.

To manage to form, with little expenses, a collection of approximately 3000 volumes, the municipal administration drew with several sources: it first of all collected approximately 1500 old volumes which lay completely abandoned in an attic of the college. This heteroclite unit remains still today the only consultable testimony of the rich person collections of the religious libraries of old évêché gathered in 1790, then plundered, sold and dispersed between 1792 and 1808 (Lisieux counted seven libraries: évêché, chapter, large and small seminar, Mathurins, Dominican, Capuchins).

With the funds allocated by the Municipal council, the library bought 400 volumes, obtained government the gift of 400 other volumes. Some private individuals deposited 300 volumes. Lastly, of Lexoviens had gathered in an association of subscribers to jointly buy expensive works in the fields of the letters and sciences. 500 volumes were thus acquired and became later property of the library.

In 1864, the library was transferred as well as the museum from painting in the wing from the old episcopal palate which faces the public garden; it was there still until the inauguration on June 21st, 2002 of the media library.

The funds increased quickly: 7.000 volumes in 1850: 14000 in 1887: 21000 in 1899. A catalogs general, still useful in spite of its imperfections, was printed in 1861, was followed of three supplements: 1861 - 1874,1875 - 1885,1885 - 1895.

Current building

Work of the cabinet of architects Of Besset-Lyon, already authors of the libraries of Orleans, Rungis, Troyes and Clermont-Ferrand (in progress), this building is located in the center town, place of the Republic, on the site of an old Gallo-Roman way. Of a surface (SHON) of 1878 m ² out of 5 levels thus distributed:

DRC: Reception, exposure, consultation of the newspapers and reviews (175 m ²).
R-1: Space adult, ready and consultation on the spot, funds room and genealogical (505 m ²).
R-2: Multi-media space, discotheque video library, cédéroms, data-processing space (125 m ²), auditorium (70 places).
R-3: Stores, technical premises and data processing.
R+1: Space youth, workshop and hour of the tale (355 m ²); Administration (178 m ²).

“The media library of Lisieux is located at the articulation of a commercial street and a place. Constructions which surround it are severe. The urban rules required an expression of roof and the conservation of a remainder of Roman roadway located at 2,5m under the level of the pavement. The media library is designed like a house. Transparent and vacuum at the ground floor it does not disturb commercial fabric and one returns there as in a shop. The more so as one sees at a glance this which offer because the adult room of reading is downwards, on the level of the Roman roadway. The media library is in the middle of the most animated share city at the same time as in withdrawal. One finds the calm one without being locked up there…” (Of Besset-Lyon).

Statute and access

Public library in direct control, it is made up of a team of 16 people.

She is opened with all without condition, 30 hours per week, of the Tuesday to Saturday. The conditions of loan (and access to the computers) are related to an yearly subscription (or a Step Internet) whose tariff is re-examined each year by the municipal council.

Patrimonial collections

If the development of the public reading with Lisieux is the essential mission of the municipal media library today, the conservation, the development and the enrichment of the patrimonial funds are not neglected. An annual plan of acquisition, maintenance and restoration was set up since 1987.

The funds with dominant nun, history and arts person, contains some beautiful pieces among which a handwritten Bible on vellum of with very many historiées letters (Biblia crowned), a évêché cartulaire of Lisieux, written by order of the bishop Thomas Basin (1412-1491); three Incunable S; a beautiful series of editions of the 16th century, including one interesting collection of works of Of Bellay. Galien, Euclide, Aristote, Pline, Erasme and the Fathers of the Church are present. For the 17th century, one will note a rare collection of airs of Nicolas Levavasseur (1593-1658), left the presses of Pierre Ballard in 1626. The editions of the 18th century represent meadows of half of the funds. Lisieux profited, at the 19th century, like much of other cities, important gifts of the government, among which one finds several of the large monuments of the edition devoted to the scientific voyages and Egyptology.

The funds Norman, approximately, 2000 references, is dominated by the whole of the notes and handwritten books devoted to the history of Lisieux that the baron François Marie Joseph Tardif of Moidrey (1860-1947) deposited with the library during the years 1940.

Source

the Media library Andre-Malraux de Lisieux: history and construction , June 21st, 2002 (consulted page on April 27th, 2007) < http://www.bmlisieux.com/mediatek/texte01.html >

External bonds

the catalog on line of the Media library Andre Malraux.
practical pages of the Media library Andre Malraux.
the blogist of the Media library.
the electronic library of Lisieux, a collection of literary and documentary texts of the French-speaking public domain.
Other online services accessible to the subscribers: service of loan of e-books, musical and multi-media library.

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