Library and documentation resources

The library offers two distinct online environments:

• the library's Moodle portal offers tools to help with documentary research, complementing the training provided on site.
• the PLEIADES portal for access to the library catalog and personal reader account space.

General presentation

The Bibliothèque de l'École du Louvre - Majid Boustany is a specialized university library. Its mission is, on the one hand, to build up a documentary collection designed to support the teaching provided at the École, particularly for undergraduates, and, on the other, to preserve specific heritage collections.

The library's print and electronic collections are listed in the union catalog SUDOC.

Print resources

Monographs

About 38,000 titles, including an artists' corpus of over 10,000 volumes.

The documentary holdings cover the following disciplines:

• archaeology
• history of the arts from prehistory to the 21st century on all continents
• museology
• museography

The largest thematic corpora are painting, archaeology and general art history, followed by extra-European arts, architecture and history.

Journals

• 68 titles currently subscribed to.

• Some titles are available in electronic format.

   

Student work (2nd and 3rd cycles)

In-depth research dissertations (3rd cycle) have been deposited in the library since the School's origins. The oldest dates back to 1886. These dissertations are available either in printed form only, or in electronic format after authentication and verification of access rights, remotely or only on site for dissertations digitized for preservation purposes.

2nd cycle dissertations have been deposited in printed form since the 1980s and systematically since 1994. They have been deposited electronically since 2008. Around 300 2nd cycle dissertations are deposited each year.

Interlibrary loan requests are not accepted for this type of document.

Online resources

The library makes two types of digital resources available to students and lecturers:

External resources

Encyclopedia, databases or online journals are directly accessible with the Full Text Finder search tool. From a search by journal title, by major themes or by browsing the primer, you can access full-text content.

• Encyclopaedia universalis
  For a first approach to a thematic field, to contextualize a subject, the Encyclopaedia Universalis provides access to articles, geographical maps, short videos or mind maps.
• Newe Pauly
  English version and original German version of the Encyclopédie des sciences de l'Antiquité.
• Artstor
  This iconographic database offers a collection of several million images, for educational or research use and non-commercial purposes only.
• JSTOR
  This database provides full-text access to over 450 journals in the humanities and social sciences.

To help you use these resources, tutorials are available on Moodle.

Resources specific to the École du Louvre

2nd cycle dissertations defended since 2008 and some of the 3rd cycle dissertations or theses can be consulted directly from the PLEIADES catalog after authentication and verification of access rights.
To access these resources, readers must log in to PLEIADES with their "ecoledulouvre.com" account.

Consultation areas

• 150 seats with electrical outlets
• 1 14-seat training room
• 6 computer workstations
• Wifi
• Black and color printers and photocopiers (with cards)

Free access

Most of the collections are freely accessible. The filing system offers a thematic organization covering the major fields of art history and collections, as well as a corpus of artists classified by country and century.

Home loan

The majority of collections are available for home loan. However, the School's student journals and dissertations are excluded from the loan.

• 7 documents for a two-week period.
• 1 extension possible on request on site, by telephone (01.55.35.18.75) or online (personal space on PLÉIADES).
• Late penalties: 1 day's loan suspension for 1 day's delay.

Deferred communication (silo)

Some fragile works, 2nd and 3rd cycle dissertations and pre-2000 journals, cannot be borrowed, and are subject to a communication request (deposit before 5pm, for consultation the following morning).

Book reservations

Books on loan can be reserved from the personal area on PLÉIADES. Upon return, the book will be set aside for the reservee for 48 hours.

Interlibrary loan

Interlibrary loan is possible for books located in an establishment outside the Paris region. Requests should be sent to [email protected].

The 2nd and 3rd cycle dissertations of École du Louvre students are not eligible for interlibrary loan, and can only be consulted on site.

Provision of images to École du Louvre teachers

Access to the PLÉIADES image catalog is reserved for teachers after authentication.

Hours

Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 7:00 pm.

• Home lending, 9:00 am to 6:45 pm.
• Communication of books from the silo: request to be made the day before by 5:00 pm, consultation Monday to Friday from 9:00 am.

Annual closure: one week between Christmas and New Year's Day and two weeks at the beginning of August.
Reduced opening hours in July and August.

Conditions of access

The library is accessible:

• to students and teachers at the École du Louvre and to students in the preparatory class for the curatorial competitive examination, with their valid card
• to outside readers, by appointment only by sending a request to: [email protected]