Reviewing library books subject to permission

    • In order for you to receive access and permission, you are asked to fill in a consultation request form, by notifying especially the cause of your request and your coordinates. According to their state of conservation, the library may decline the request for consultation of several documents seen as fragile. In order to do so, log in to your personal space and then fill in the following form : Request for reviewing library books subject to permission. 

    • After the collection responsible’s approval, you will receive on your personal space a date and a schedule for the consultation. The number of heritage documents that can be consulted per session is determined at the time of the appointment booking.

• The documents will be given to you by the collection responsible, who will also give you several recommendations concerning the handling, will provide you with a reading medium to relieve bindings and in some cases will give you gloves to avoid fingerprints on the sheets.

•  All documents are excluded from photocopying for reasons of preservation. When the state of the documents allows it, the reader is authorised to take pictures himself with a digital camera without flash and without a tripod, respecting the recommendations of consultation and after having committed to limit himself to a private use of the pictures taken. Full reproduction of a volume is prohibited.

Old, precious, rare, fragile and reservation documents are available upon authorization.
Some documents from the old collection of the Vincennes library (manuscripts, printed works from the Reserve, grand formats...) are available on request and communicated in the Louis XIV reading room only by appointment. In order for you to receive access and permission, you are asked to fill in a consultation request form, by notifying especially the cause of your request and your coordinates. According to their state of conservation, the library may decline the request for consultation of several documents seen as too delicate. After the collection responsible’s approval, you will receive on your personal space a date and a schedule for the consultation. The number of heritage documents that can be consulted per session is determined at the time of the appointment booking.