MÉDIATHÈQUE JACQUES-BAUMEL

Opened in 2002, the Jacques Baumel media library offers the public a set of 230 000 documents in a modern, glass-filled building. Four poles, four universes: a youth space for children and teens on the ground floor; on the first floor, the "Literature and language" cluster of Roman, BD, philosophy and religion, as well as the Science and Society cluster; finally to the second ^{floor the Music, Cinema, Arts and Leisure cluster, with books, Cds and Dvds. Looking to new technologies, the library has a growing number of digital resources. It is also a living cultutel site, offering exhibitions, signature meetings, literary cafés, workshops, conferences. Four annual appointments have become inescapable: The Salon du Livre Jeunesse, the Salon de la BD, Les Rendez-vous du Digital and Les Rencontres de l'Histoire. Three annexes (Mont-Valérien, Renoir, Mazurières) and a reading service outside the walls (from retirement homes and homes) serve as a proximity relay.}