Union Catalog of France
(Catalogue collectif de France/CCFr)

The Union Catalog of France (Catalogue Collectif de France/CCFr) is one of the most powerful online bibliographic and document research tools in France.

Its main purpose is to provide a single search interface for the three major French catalogs:

• the Catalog of Digitized Municipal Library Collections (Catalogue des Fonds des Bibliothèques Municipales Rétroconvertis/BMR);
• BnF catalogue général ;
• and the University Documentation Catalog (Catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation/Sudoc).

The CCFr makes it possible to locate more than 15 million documents available in the French library system.

It also functions as a list of French document resources : you can search the French National Directory of Libraries and Documentation Centers (Répertoire National des Bibliothèques et des Centres de Documentation/RNBCD), which provides a complete description of French libraries and documentation centers (4,100 libraries) and their collections.

Since November 2002, you can use the CCFr to request the loan of primary documents and document substitutes (photocopies, photographs, digital copies, etc.). You can also reserve materials for viewing in a library, thanks to an interlibrary loan (ILL) Internet tool available free of charge to all interested libraries.

The CCFr, a joint project of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication and Ministère de l'Education Nationale, is operated by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.