This place of meeting, exchange and sharing, resulting from the renovation of a wasteland, designed and arranged by the architects of the firm Coulon - Dominique Coulon, already distinguished for the realization of the project Puzzle in Thionville, brings together a third-party media libraryplace and the intercommunal tourist office on a surface of 4 600m2.
State support through the General Decentralization Endowment (DGD)
The project that anchors the equipment in a social, cultural, tourist and heritage vocation has benefited from the support of the State for the media library under the special competition created within the General Decentralization Endowment (DGD) for libraries for an amount of more than €6.3 million.
A rich and diversified fund
The media library, particularly well endowed, at the head of the public reading network Escales, offers collections all media, an important digital offer and new services. It brings together about 70,000 documents for consultation and loan as well as remarkable heritage collections: about 1,500 manuscripts (from the IXe in XXIe centuries), precious iconographic documents: 144 incunabula, a Cosmographiae introductio (1507) , considered as the baptism certificate of America, which is of particular importance in the city that hosts the International Festival of Geography (FIG). Funds relating to different personalities of the city are also preserved: the Yvan Goll fund, the Ferry fund, the Maxime Alexandre fund.
Development of the heritage fund
La Boussole provides a new setting for the heritage fund where will be presented to the public the Gradual of Saint-Dié, remarkable work with impressive dimensions, dating from the beginning of the XVIe century and preserved in the media library. It benefited from an extensive restoration project coordinated by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), assisted by the Ministry of Culture as part of the ARPIN (Acquisitions et restaurations patrimoniales d'intérêt national).
Heritage collections will be promoted through the Sillon Lorrain Digital Reference Library, for the Limédia galeries.
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