The document summarizes recent trends in French academic libraries, using libraries in Toulouse as examples. It describes the shift towards a "learning center" model, where libraries provide spaces and services to support student learning and skills development. It then profiles four libraries in Toulouse - at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Université Paul Sabatier, and the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - describing their facilities, resources, staffing, and emphasis on services like information literacy training, group study spaces, and support for teaching and research.

1. Aktuelnosti
iz francuskih biblioteka,
na primeru biblioteka u Tuluzu
Univerzitet u Novom Sadu,
Centralna biblioteka
31 Jula 2012
Sandrine Malotaux,
Conservateur en chef,
Directeur des bibliothèques, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
Coordinateur des négociations documentaires, Consortium national universitaire Couperin

2. Toulouse - Tuluz

3. Toulouse - Tuluz
 U jugozapadnoj Francuskoj, 150 km od mora i 100 km
od planine (Pyrénées) i španske granice
 700.000 građana
 100.000 studenata
 4 univerziteta:
- Université Toulouse 1 Capitole : pravo, ekonomija,
društvene studije. 17.000 studenata
- Université Toulouse 2 Le Mirail : istorija, geografija,
književnost, klasične studije, jezici, sociologija. 21.000
studenata
- Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier : nauke, medicina.
26.000 studenata
- Institut National Polytechnique : inženjerske nauke.
6.500 studenata, samo Master i PhD nivo

4. Glavna ekonomska i naučna aktivnost : aeronautika i aerospace

5. Trends in French Libraries :
the «Learning centre » model
 Library becomes a « teaching » space
 Provides services for students, teachers,
researchers who need to build, extend and
improve their skills for learning / teaching /
accessing or publishing information
 an Americano-British-Catalan model…
 …where some concepts come from French
public libraries as well
 strong commitment from the Ministery for
Higher Education in 2010 (but no fundings)
 Some libraries had anticipated

6. Learning centre
A place providing learning and skills improvement facilities :
 Comfortable study rooms
 Group work-spaces / individual work-spaces
 Language labs, « language café »
 Cultural activities
 Unrestricted access to IT technology
 Information literacy
 Developing presentation skills : courses, rehearsal spaces
 Support for teaching staff : e-learning spaces
 Support for research staff : intellectual property,
bibliometrics, open access issues

7. Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal
 University central Library
 Built 1971, refurbished 1999-2001, re-organised in 2008
 Law, Economics and Social Studies
 850 reading places
 Opening times : Monday-Friday 9 h - 22 h
Saturday 9 h 30 – 17 h 30
 Staff : 39 FTE (Full time professionals + 3,5 FTE part-
time students)
 15 400 readers
 135 000 loans per year (2011)

8. Arsenal

9. Issue, information, inter-library loan,
IT help desks

10. IT help desk (WI-FI connection)
36 free access computers in the
hall

11. LC
classification Political science reading room
(books + journals)

12. Language resource centre

13. Research room

14. Research room

15. Reading rooms (economics)

16. Old books department

18. Bibliothèque de Sciences
Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse 3)
 Built 1966, extended and refurbished 2004-2010
 Sciences and sport
 10 000 m2, 900 reading places
 8 rooms for groups
 100 free-access PC + 120 laptops for loan
 Opening hours : Monday-Friday 8 h 30 - 19 h
Saturday 9 h – 13 h
 9 000 readers
 90 000 loans per year (2011)

19. Bibliothèque de Sciences
Université Paul Sabatier

20. Entrance Hall

21. Entrance hall - facilities

22. Leisure reading and humanities

23. IT facilities and
Language resource centre

25. Group working space

26. Entrance hall – from first floor

27. Reading rooms : shelves
OPAC only
UDC

28. Reading rooms (first floor)

29. A place to work and to relax

30. Design

31. zoning

32. Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
 INPT Information and library service : a distributed
network of 7 libraries in Toulouse and Tarbes
 Staff : 32
 Expenditure : 800.000 € /year (electronic resources :
500.000 €)
 5000 users. Master and PHD students only.
 Electronic resources : 6000 journals, 5000 e-books
 Open access repository : OATAO, launched 2008.
4500 articles, average 80.000 downloads /month
 Open access repository for PHD thesis : E-thesis,
launched 2006. 942 thesis (average 130 / year)
http://bibliotech.inp-toulouse.fr/fr/index.html

33. Institute of Chemistry library
• Opened 2009
• 1100 m2
• Staff : 4 FTE + part-time students
• Opening hours : Monday – Friday 8h30- 19h30
• 1000 users, 6500 loans / year
• Groups facilities (4 rooms)
• Conference facilities
• Leisure reading and culture section, foreign language
section (one in each library since 2009)
• Information service for researchers : e-thesis, open
access and OATAO, intellectual property
• Training sessions on open access information,
bibliometrics, for researchers and private companies.
• Regular meetings researchers – private companies

34. Leisure and foreign languages

35. Free access computers,
group facilities

36. Reading spaces

37. Shelves (and colleagues)

38. Veillées technologiques
When researchers meet
private companies :
conferences about on-going
research at INPT + issues on
open access information

39. Project (2012-2013) :
spaces for e-learning training
Universita politecnica de
Catalunya