All IASA 2015 professional visits take place on the afternoon of 29 September. You may choose one visit when registering.
Visits at the BnF
- François Mitterrand Library
- AV Dept reading rooms
- BnF Technical Centre FULLY BOOKED
- Charles Cros collection FULLY BOOKED
Visits to partner institutions
- Cinémathèque Française FULLY BOOKED
- Combined visit (Forum des images, François Truffaut Library, Paris Musical Library) FULLY BOOKED
- National Audiovisual Institute (INA) FULLY BOOKED
- Philharmonie de Paris
Visits at the BnF |
François Mitterrand Library (25 people) The François-Mitterrand Library opened to the public in 1996 because the Bibliothèque nationale needed to be extended and modernized. The building was the first example of minimalist tendency, on such a scale, in the field of contemporary architecture. Attendees will enjoy an architectural visit through public and professional areas. (Image © Alain Goustard / BnF) |
AV Dept reading rooms (24 people) A tour of the Audiovisual Department reading rooms. Reference Library’s room A and its selection of all forms of artistic creation (cinema, music, multimedia): more than 5,000 films (fictional, documentary and animated films, series), audio-books, an “idea record collection” complemented by several music databases and a selection of webdocumentaries, books and magazines about cinema, music and multimedia, as well as video games, home cinema on a big screen and access to a digital creation studio. Research Library’s room P, offering in the same place access to the collections of the three French institutions in charge of AV legal deposit: sound, video, multimedia and electronic documents (BnF), radio and television archives (INA), film (CNC). |
BnF Technical Centre: preservation facilities and audiovisual studios (24 people) Printed and audiovisual collections are preserved and conserved at the BnF technical center built in 1995 and located in Bussy-Saint-Georges, 30 km from Paris. Designed by Dominique Perrault, the architect of François-Mitterrand Library, the building is located in an urban development zone, with other industrial buildings similar in style and aspect. Bookstores and workshops linked up by gangways are distributed around an inner street. Various processes are used in workshops to safeguard the printed documents: microfilming, conservation, disinfection. The center is also involved in the digitization program of the press and in various mass digitization transactions. Attendees will visit the whole site, from the preservation facilities to the audiovisual digitization and restoration studios. (Image © Alain Goustard / BnF) |
Charles Cros collection (10 people) The National Library of France’s Audiovisual Department hosts a collection of more than 1,400 recording and playback machines, from Edison’s tin foil phonograph to the latest game consoles and computers, representing the whole field of French audiovisual legal deposit: sound, video and multimedia documents. It received the name of Charles Cros Collection as a tribute to the French first designer of what would become the Phonograph. Displayed as a small exhibit within the late Phonothèque nationale’s building, the machines remained in the stocks of the new National Library of France, before the Audiovisual Department could recreate an exhibition. On the top floor of one the National Library of France’s towers, hidden in the professional areas, the collection welcomes groups and individuals concerned by the field, specialists, collectors and researchers. |
Visits to partner institutions |
Cinémathèque Française (French Film Institute, 24 people)
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Combined visit: Forum des images, François Truffaut Library and Paris Musical Library (25 people)
François Truffaut Film Library Médiathèque musicale de Paris
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INA, National Institute of Audiovisual, broadcast and TV archive (30 people) The National Audiovisual Institute retains French radio and television archives since 1975. After a presentation of the institution, the visit will offer demonstrations and workshops reflecting the multiple activities of INA: demonstrations of Totem, the cataloguing tool, Inamédiapro, the showcase for professionals, ina.fr, the website dedicated to general audience, and Frescoes, offering interactive timelines with educational and cultural dimension. Then the visitor will see technical studios for restoring image, capturing radio and television legal deposit and scanning, monitoring, restitution and digital archiving.
Philharmonie de Paris (20 people) Equipped with several auditoriums, a museum, a media library and numerous learning spaces, the Philharmonie de Paris is a groundbreaking project. With its numerous spaces, resident and associate ensembles and innovative artistic mission, it is a cultural centre that is truly unique in the world, bringing music awareness and learning to a diverse public. In addition to a classical music repertoire, the Philharmonie programme embraces contemporary and world music, as well as dance. |