Technical Information
a floor area (24-35)
- 24
Total gross floor area
- 8905 sq. metres [The area available for the library increased a little (+300 sq.m) after renovation.]
- divided into
- 25
Open access services
- 2100 sq. metres [4 thematical reading rooms opened, 1 to open
cafeteria
2 rooms for groups
1 training room
1 room for professors]
- special rooms for (26-29)
- 26
Audiovisual
- 27
Computers
- 28
Special collections
- 404 sq. metres [2 rooms are available:
- the main reading room for special collections
- the Victor-Cousin room (on demand)]
- 29
Seminar room(s)
- 121 sq. metres [The training room is easily transformable into a 190 sq.m room by removing the doors linking training and researchers' room.]
- special activities (30-32)
- 30
Exhibition space
- 31
Lecture hall
- 190 sq. metres [Both training room (121 sq.m) and room for researchers (69 sq.m) can be converted in rooms for conferences and seminars.]
- 32
Public refreshments
- 65 sq. metres
- 33
Administration and staff areas
- 1405 sq. metres [One of the former stacks (tower B) has been converted into offices for the personal.]
- 34
Closed access stacks
- 2829 sq. metres [1 tower (traditional shelving)
3 levels underneath the ground (compact shelving)]
- 35
Circulations areas (corridors, stairs, lifts), toilets, technical rooms, etc.
- 2571 sq. metres [Those spaces offer access to disabled people and allow easy evacuation]
- 36
Further information
- 19 levels (8+8+3), 2 levels opened to the public
- 37
Number of reader seats (total)
- 502 [reading: 378
groups: 26
researchers: 16
training: 25
microforms: 4
open spaces: 53]
- divided into
- 38
Audiovisual
- 39
Computers
- 40
Seminar room(s)
- 25 [The training room can host up to 49 people.]
- 41
Regular
- 378 [literature and general issues: 266
history: 80
philosophy: 12
special collections: 20]
b total potential capacity of shelving
- 42
Books and periodicals (total)
- 23592 linear metres [13 021 linear metres of compact shelvings]
- including
- 43
Open access stacks
- 45000 volumes
- 44
Closed access stacks
- 22892 linear metres [+ 700 linear metres in salle Victor-Cousin]
- 45
Compact shelving
- 13021 linear metres [+ 9771 linear metres of traditional shelvings]
- 46
Audiovisual materials
- 47
Other
- 48
Number of staff required to operate the new library
- 130 [same as before:
20 curators
9 librarians
25 assistant
42 library employees
27 others
20 temporary staff members]
c mechanical features
- 49
Ventilation/Air Conditioning
- mechanical ventilation, no air conditionning
- 50
Heating
- gaz
- 51
Lighting
- LED in most of the open spaces
Fluorescent in stacks
- 52
Acoustics
- No special treatment
The windows were changed in two reading rooms
- 53
Lifts, elevators, escalators
- 7
- 54
Book transportation system
- None
- 55
Theft detection
- RFID :
- about 15% of the documents stored in Sorbonne are equipped
- each document in loan is equipped
- 56
Building management system
- Not yet, to be planned in 2015
- 57
Type of IT infrastructure
- 6 and 6A type
- 58
Other
