Libraries to visit France

Designed by the sculptor Sasha Sosno and inaugurated in 2002, Tête Carrée has become the symbol of modern architecture in the city with its height of 30 meters and width of 14 meters. Inaccessible to the public, it hosts in its headquarters the Louis Nucéra municipal library offices at the head of B.M.V.R network of Nice (Bibliothèque Municipale à Vocation Régionale) [Municipal Library with Regional Vocation]. The night lighting system of the building was designed by the artist Yann Kersalé.

Built by the end of the 40 000 th century, it now houses about 30 000 books, including 8 000 printed for the general fund, for the Quercy Fund, brochures, maps and plans, antique photographs, prints and collections of local newspapers. In a superb room, surrounded by books up to the 8-metre upper ceiling with wooden gallery and screw staircases and walnut shelves, rare works, only in consultation, are available for researchers who wish to study the th, th, th and th centuries.

This regional resource centre on the album and illustration is located on the mezzanine of the new library Jean Moulin de Margny-lès-Compiègne. Thanks to Janine Kotwica, scientific advisor to the centre who was a friend of André François, the centre has recovered many works from the artist who has shown themselves in the magazine covers (Télérama, Le Nouvel Observateur, The New Yorker), in commercials, film posters or even illustrated albums like his famous bestiary with Vincent Pachès, where the animals are being put into the situation as a situation. in La Fontaine fables. In addition to the preservation of the works of André François (who were the rare survivors of the terrible fire that ravaged his workshop in 2002), the centre is dedicated to hosting temporary exhibitions, around youth ilustration.

The library of Nogent has several interests: it is first a place of memory of the character whose name it bears: Bernard Dimey, poet, lyricist, author of songs that became legendary such as "Syracuse". In mid-May, a festival of poems and songs is organized in his honour, as we regret, a small part of passionate. The library, with its bourgeois and contemporary façade at a time, offers you a room dedicated to music and cinema, a reading room children and adults, a cyber-base and finally, the so-called «Cellar in Bernard». In a vaulted room you can see exhibitions, films, concerts, intimate shows… A cultural place that imposes a policy of sharing!

The Médiathèque René-Char is a library located in Issoire, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. It offers a wide range of resources and services for all publics. In addition to its collection of books, the Médiathèque René-Char also organizes events and activities. For example, it takes part in the Grande Collecte Solidaire de Téléphones organized by Ecosystem, where visitors can drop off their old cell phones to give them a second life. It also offers creative workshops and temporary exhibitions.