Schedule change ! The library is open from 9 am to 6 pm following the establishment of curfew. The Night Library remains open under the usual conditions.
BULAC is open again!
Due to the current health situation, in order to comply with recommendations relating to hygiene measures, readers may only enter the library by booking a working place or room.
In order to guarantee optimal physical distancing, access to BULAC reading rooms is limited to teachers, researchers in higher education and students in human and social sciences of GIP BULAC member institutions, namely : Inalco, université Panthéon-Sorbonne, université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, EFEO, EHESS, EPHE.
PhD students specializing in languages and civilizations may also benefit from this service, with special permission.
Readers are required to reserve a work place prior to their arrival.
A desk for loan and return transactions of ordered documents is accessible at the entrance of the library, without access to the reading rooms.
Book loan is available as usual (teachers, researchers in higher education and students in human and social sciences of GIP BULAC).
Thank you for your understanding
BULAC is open to anybody aged over 18 and there is no entrance fee.
It is free to registrate with BULAC but there are two steps to registering:
With your registration, you can take better advantage of the BULAC catalogue. Via your reader account, you can create lists of lists de references, suggest purchases and request digital document copies.
Pre-registration accepted : Your identifier is ... To finalize your registration please do not forget to bring:
Students from other countries
Students from other countries registered with the BULAC can visit the open access areas of the library and order up to 10 documents a day to be brought out from our collections.
Please note that the BULAC always has many visitors and you are recommended to arrive when the library opens.
Teachers / researchers from other countries
When your registration is finalized at the BULAC you will then be able to:
The BULAC's Education and Research Coordination (Coordination Enseignement et Recherche) mission provides personalized service for people in those fields: enseignement-recherche [at] bulac.fr.
Authorized teachers/researchers from other countries
If you are invited by one of the nine organizations belonging to the GIP BULAC (BULAC Public Interest Group), you benefit from an accreditation which gives you the right to borrow documents (5 in 21 days). The accreditation is given by a GIP member institution (and approved by its president/director or a laboratory director) to a teacher or researcher from France or other countries who is invited to that institution for at least a semester.
The GIP member institutions are:
When your registration is finalized at the BULAC, you will also be able to:
The BULAC's Education and Research Coordination (Coordination Enseignement et Recherche) mission provides personalized service for people in those fields: enseignement-recherche [at] bulac.fr.
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