Презентация, доклад на тему The National Library of France

Europe. The Royal Library existed in the Louvre even under Charles V (ruled in 1364-1380) and totaled 1,200 manuscripts. Over time, from this meeting, almost nothing remained, so that Louis XI was forced to begin the creation of the palace book depository from a blank page. Francis I ordered to deliver to the library a copy of every book printed in France, and in 1544 he took the whole assembly from the Louvre to Fontainebleau.

In the 17th century the library returned to Paris, and in 1622 its first catalog was published. Louis XIV made the library public, opening it for free. Its current name was given to the library by the decision of the Convention during the Great French Revolution. In the XIX century, the department of manuscripts was significantly expanded by the efforts of Leopold-Victor Delil.

the library, in accordance with which fixed assets moved to the new high-rise buildings in the XIII arrondissement of Paris. At that time the number of printed books in the library's collection exceeded 9 million.Library complex, consists of four high-rise towers in the shape of open books, was built on the left Bank of the Seine by the architect Dominique Perrault. The construction required for the storage of underground spaces was made of excavation more than it would have taken to construct a nuclear power plant.

national library is one of the world's first digitized the most in demand funds, placing them in the Internet at gallica.bnf.fr. As of April 2011, the online library "Gallica" offered to the readers of about 1 400 000 digitized documents. The library also participates in a research project Quaero, directed on development of technologies of machine translation and speech recognition.

14 million books.
More than 1.3 million readers per year.
About 2 600 employees.
The budget is around €254 million

Paris Opera — the theatre collection, which since 1882, is located in the former Imperial pavilion of the Paris Grand Opera house and the library of the house of Jean Vilar in Avignon.