1. Cultural events
   1. Exhibitions
   2. Virtual exhibitions
2. Collections and services
   1. Digital Libraries - Gallica
      1. Access to Gallica digital library
      2. Gallica Experiment: Offering Digital Documents
      3. Europeana
   2. Catalogs
      1. Access to the catalogue général de la BnF
      2. Access to the Union Catalog of France (CCFr)
      3. Access to BnF archives et manuscrits
      4. Access to Mandragore
      5. Access to the catalogue de La Joie par les Livres
      6. Information concerning online catalogs
   3. Collections and departments
      1. Arts
      2. Law, economics, politics
      3. Languages and literatures
      4. Book, press and media
      5. Science and technology
      6. Humanities, philosophy and religion
      7. Social sciences
      8. The departments
   4. Information retrieval aids
      1. Ask a librarian (SINDBAD)
      2. Guide de recherche en bibliothèque
      3. Bibliographies
   5. Reproduction services
      1. Reproduction Products and Fees
      2. How to order reproductions?
      3. Picture Collection
      4. Commercial use of documents
      5. For image professionals
      6. Contact and useful links
   6. Reader registration for the Research Library
3. The BnF
   1. Practical information
      1. How to find us ?
      2. Reading rooms opening hours
      3. Admission to the reading rooms and reader’s cards rates
      4. Reserving seats and documents
      5. Research library document release times
      6. Exhibition opening hours
      7. Exhibition fees
      8. Shops and Refreshment areas
   2. About the Library
      1. BnF archives
      2. BnF Presentation Space
      3. BnF in images
      4. Internet archive: forecast study
   3. Renovation work at Richelieu Library
      1. What's new?
      2. Consulting documents at Richelieu Library
      3. Why renovating Richelieu Library?
      4. Major phases of Richelieu renovation project
      5. The protagonists of Richelieu renovation project
4. Professionals
   1. Digital legal deposit
      1. International cooperation
      2. Four questions about Web Archiving
   2. ISSN, ISBN, other identifiers
      1. Other international identifiers
   3. Cataloging and indexing
      1. Description and access
      2. Formats and encoding
      3. Data exchange protocols
      4. Modelling and Ontologies
      5. Authorities
   4. BnF data services
      1. BnF data sets
      2. Tools for downloading BnF data sets
   5. National cooperation
      1. Creating a national network
      2. CCFr and collection referencing
      3. Regional cooperation
      4. Gallica, shared digitization
      5. Cultural cooperation
   6. International activities
      1. International news
      2. “Profession Culture”
      3. International residencies and internships
      4. International bodies
      5. Partnerships
   7. Digitization
      1. Select : digitization policy and programs
      2. Digitization process
      3. Preservation: the SPAR project
      4. Online availability: access to digital resources
   8. Preservation
      1. Preservation at BnF
      2. Emergency plan
      3. Preservation and expertise
      4. Practical information sheets
      5. Training
      6. International PAC/IFLA program
5. Resources
   1. Host an event and filming
   2. Visitors with disabilities

• Digital Libraries - Gallica
• Catalogs
• Collections and departments
  • Arts
  • Law, economics, politics
  • Languages and literatures
    • Languages and linguistics
    • Literature
  • Book, press and media
  • Science and technology
  • Humanities, philosophy and religion
  • Social sciences
  • The departments
• Information retrieval aids
• Reproduction services
• Reader registration for the Research Library

See also

• Performing arts
• The Orient and eastern collections

Catalogs

• Catalogue général de la BnF
• Catalogues des Estampes et de la photographie

Where to consult the documents ?

Prints and Photographs Department

Literature

From manuscripts to self-published books, from humanist editions to contemporary critical analysis.

• French literature
• French-speaking literature
• Foreign literature
• Classical literature
• Iconography

Literature - Iconography

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire by Nadar (1820-1910)

© BnF

The Prints and Photographs Department holds a large number of illustrated editions of literary texts, as well as major collections of graphic materials relating to literature:

• portraits of writers: Stéphane Mallarmé by Paul Gauguin, Charles Baudelaire photographed by Nadar, etc.
• representations of writers’ residences 
• portraits of real and fictional characters, mythological and allegorical figures, etc. 
• compendia of illustrations produced for illustrated editions of literary texts (e.g. Goethe’s Faust illustrated by Eugène Delacroix) 
• graphical works inspired by texts (e.g. Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Pablo Picasso)

Thursday, January 27, 2011