-National Library of France

The National Library of France is the oldest national library in Europe. Its predecessor was/kloc-the Royal Library founded in the 4th century, and it was opened to the public in 1720. It is the first library in the world to accept contributions from domestic publications.

On the right bank of the beautiful Seine River, stands a glass building complex, which looks like four open books. Mitterrand once praised it as a treasure of French architectural art, that is, the new French National Library opened at 1996 12.20. The old museum is located on Li Sailiu Street.

This library inherits the books of the French royal family. After more than 280 years of growth, the collection of books is rich, reaching more than 6.5438+0.2 million volumes and 350,000 kinds of periodicals, which are only for reading or copying. Self-built digital library is one of the largest free digital libraries in the world. It has collected the precious collections of the library from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century, including more than 86,000 kinds of books and periodicals and 300,000 still images. Digital library provides French cultural products to readers all over the world for free, and has won a high reputation. You can also check books and national joint bibliographies on the Internet. After consulting the bibliographic information, you can make book reservation and seat reading through the online reservation system, so that readers will not worry about borrowing books or having no seats. Whether you are near the water or not, you can get the moon first. The library is unique in serving visually impaired readers, providing ramps and lifting facilities in buildings, and the reading room has special audio books or documents for the blind; Some reading rooms have special rooms, and are equipped with readers, seats for the visually impaired, amplifiers, etc. Through the reader, visually impaired readers can surf the Internet with the help of Braille or voice prompts, and digitize printed materials and then convert them into voice information.