The study day will take place at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 25 May 2023.

The National Library of France organizes a day of study dedicated to the collections entered between 1940 and 1946 around three axes:

Axis 1: Entries in the collections: nature, provenance and protagonists
Axis 2: Valuation and use of inputs
Axis 3: The study of collections sources

Applications should be sent to anne.leblay-kinoshita@bnf.fr  and anaelle.lahaeye@bnf.fr before 15 January 2023.

The Mission for the Search and Restitution of Cultural Property Looted between 1933 and 1945 provides information on looting and provenance research on books and libraries and tools for professionals:

Dispossession of books and libraries
Source research on books
Recommendations for library professionals