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Visitors with disabilities

To prepare your visit

Assistance for visitors with disabilities at François-Mitterrand site

Warning

Renovation work at François-Mitterrand Library

Itinerary advice if you use public transport

Bus

Line 89
Bus stops:

  • Avenue de France to reach the East and West entrances
  • François Mauriac or rue Aron to reach the West entrance. Please note that you will need to climb up or skirt around the stairs.

Line 62
Bus stops:

  • Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
  • Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand - Avenue de France

Line 64
Bus stops:

  • Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
  • Tolbiac - Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand

Line 132
Bus stop:

  • Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand

Line 325
Bus stops:

  • Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
  • Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand. Avenue de France
  • Tolbiac - Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand

Metro

Line 6: West entrance (escalators, stairs and lift).

Line 14 (easily accessible for users with disabilities): East entrance (escalators, stairs and lift). If the lift is out of order, you are invited to use the RER C exit.

RER C line: East entrance (escalator to reach Line 14)

Access services

Some stairs encircle the library on three of its sides. They lead to the horizontal platform – the esplanade – where you will find the East and West entrances. On the East and West sides, two ramps take visitors to the entrance halls.

The stairs slowly decline along the rue Raymond Aron and the rue Emile Durkheim. In both streets, the gradient is 5%. Direct access is possible via the Avenue de France.

You will find some lifts near the East and West entrances. Visitors with disabilities are invited to press the interphone’s button during four seconds. These lifts provide direct access to the entrance halls.

Please note

When the weather is wet and rainy, you are invited to follow the anti-slip path on the platform or along the stairs. At François-Mitterrand site, the platform is currently fit out to offer a safe and waymarked path to the East entrance hall.
  • Starting point of the guiding path: two monumental pillars located at the beginning of the Avenue de France and beside the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir point out the institution. They are both equipped with a touch screen plan in large characters and a sound terminal. The sound terminal is activated via a remote control intended to visually-impaired people. The system is similar to the one used at crossroads equipped with audible traffic signal.
  • The guiding path starts from the pillars. An anti-slip material was used to draw on the floor a series of points and lines that change further users advance towards the library. The path is delimited by two guiding strips wide enough to let wheelchairs advance safely to the main entrance (East entrance hall).
  • Some sound terminals orient visually-impaired users, indicating the necessary changes of direction all along the path.
  • Benches offering three sitting height positions are available along the path.

Car parks

Upon presenting a supporting document, a mobility impaired person can use the staff car park (entrance from Quai François Mauriac, 1.90 maximum height) which lifts provide direct access to the halls. He/she will be greeted in the car park.

Entrance to the car park is possible

  • Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • On Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • On Sunday, from 11:45 a.m. to 1.45 p.m.

Warning

Effective June 1, 2013, access to staff parking will be closed from Monday to Friday, from 14:30.

On site

Guide dogs are allowed in the building.
Wheelchairs are available on request in the cloakrooms. An identity paper must be temporarily left in the cloakrooms.

Assistance for visitors with disabilities at Richelieu site

Due to renovation work at Richelieu site, the building is not easily accessible to visitors with disabilities.

Assistance to reach the reading rooms

Assistance can be provided to visitors from the outside to the reading rooms, exhibition areas or auditoriums. This service has been particularly conceived to answer visitors’ requests and help them make the best use of the library.
It is available during the opening hours of the library at François-Mitterrand site. If you plan to come during week-ends, please prepare your visit and call us several days in advance.

Contact

Registration and information
01 53 79 37 37 (answering machine)
Email : accueil.handicap@bnf.fr
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Reading rooms opening hours

Access to reading rooms and exhibitions

Upon presentation of a supporting document, reading rooms and exhibitions are accessible for free for visitors with disabilities and persons who escort them.

Visitors with disabilities and pregnant women have priority to enter the reading rooms and exhibitions.

The reference library (Haut-de-jardin level – François-Mitterrand site) is open to any person over 16.

The research library (Rez-de-jardin level – François-Mitterrand site, Richelieu-Louvois site, Arsenal site, Opera site) is open to any person over 18, presenting the required documents for his/her academic, professional or personal search. Admission requests of readers with disabilities are considered with particular attention.

In the reading rooms of the Rez-de-jardin level (F.-Mitterrand), some seats are reserved for persons with disabilities. You can find them in the reserving system : choose "Situation de handicap", then "Mobilité réduite".

For more info

Reserving seats and documents (Research library)

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Making the best use of the library

Thursday, May 23, 2013